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Ten   /tɛn/   Listen
adjective
Ten  adj.  One more than nine; twice five. "With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea." Note: Ten is often used, indefinitely, for several, many, and other like words. "There 's a proud modesty in merit, Averse from begging, and resolved to pay Ten times the gift it asks."


noun
Ten  n.  
1.
The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects. "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
2.
A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.





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"Ten" Quotes from Famous Books



... outskirts of the village, and he had to retrace his steps and go round to the right. Wire fences and horses in pasture made this a task, so it was well after midnight before he accomplished it. He made ten miles or more then by daylight, and after that proceeded cautiously along a road which appeared to be well worn from travel. He passed several thickets where he would have halted to hide during the day but for the fact that he had to ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... Ten, and Lansing's substitute resolution on League, during Wilson's absence, self-constituted organization, and Supreme War ...
— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing
... land of such a neighborhood—a certain congeries of obscure and labyrinthine streets to the rear of the old Halles—I accompanied Franz Mueller one wintry afternoon, about an hour before sunset, and perhaps some ten days after our evening in the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis. We were bound on an expedition of discovery, and the object of our journey was to find the habitat ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... such cases what makes {24} your liking come. But if I stand aloof, and refuse to budge an inch until I have objective evidence, until you shall have done something apt, as the absolutists say, ad extorquendum assensum meum, ten to one your liking never comes. How many women's hearts are vanquished by the mere sanguine insistence of some man that they must love him! he will not consent to the hypothesis that they cannot. The desire for a certain kind ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... "At ten o'clock this morning I received orders from headquarters to move to this point at once and, as we have marched from Banos, you see we have lost very little time on ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty


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