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ten
  1. (uncountable) The number following nine.
  2. (card game) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
  3. (countable) A denomination of currency with a value of ten units.
  4. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
  5. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity
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  7. Examples:
    1. “They are the first ten of several dozen commandments delivered to Moses.”
      “Lorraine Baines was infatuated with Calvin Klein who, at least in her eyes, was an absolute ten in terms of being a dreamboat.”
tenth
  1. The person or thing in the tenth position.
  2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
  3. (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
  4. (plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “After ranking first for nine consecutive years, his team finished in the tenth position this time.”
tens
  1. (poker) A pair of tens.
  2. The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties. Short for the nineteen-tens, twenty-tens, etc.
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    1. “Only mankind is unique, in that unlike the fox, he kills his own species by the tens of thousands.”
      “We know Elvis would not disapprove of the tens of thousands of impersonators, the velvet paintings, the collector plates, the bobble-heads.”
      “The military rounded up tens of thousands of people, torturing and mutilating many of the prisoners.”
10
  1. Perfect (on a scale of 1–10, where 10 is the best score)
  2. Intense (on a scale of 1–10, where 10 is the most intense)
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The officials were instructed to itemize the number of signatures from each county that are deemed defective for any of 10 reasons.”
      “You can see more than 10 kinds of congee on the menu, stewed with different ingredients such as solid pig's blood, sliced chicken and lean meat.”
      “He also instanced his meeting with the 10 children who came from Chernobyl to spend a month in Castlebar with host families.”
tensies
  1. A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where ten actions must be performed.
tensome
  1. A group of ten persons or things.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Hastily the tensome make their way to the stage unloading their props in the wings.”
tensomes
tenths
  1. plural of tenth
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In this exercise, the U.S. population is divided into tenths and represented by 10 students.”
      “Some drugs are so powerful that a full dose weighs only a few tenths of a milligram, about the weight of a fresh fingerprint.”
      “Suddenly the also-ran was rewriting the record books, running times that were tenths of seconds faster than anything in history.”
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