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ten
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[ adjective ] being one more than nine
Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Up spoke carpenter Staffe , who said he would n't give ten pounds to be home . (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)They get all the glory and most_of the pay and do n't earn ten cents apiece on_the_average , the drunken rascals '' . (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)At the age of ten , when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop , he was knocked_down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg . (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Although it was at the Battle_of_The_Little_Horn , about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history , that the 7_th_Cavalry first made its mark in history , the regiment was ten years old by then . (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago ? Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Some clue to the character of London 's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive '' . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Overnight , for_one_thing , Porter 's film multiplied the standard running_time of movies by ten . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)In his wake came the District_Traffic_Supervisor and the cream of the telegraphic profession , ten of Boston 's best , chosen for their long experience and thorough knowledge of golf . Related terms |
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