ten

From English ten.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn]

ten

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 10, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

Ten circles

From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”), Dutch tien (“ten”), German zehn (“ten”), Norwegian ti (“ten”), Swedish tio (“ten”).

Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dhjetë, Old Armenian տասն (tasn), Lithuanian dešimt, Old Church Slavonic десѧть (desętĭ), Old Breton dec, Old Irish deich, Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Sanskrit दश (dásá), Old Persian *𐎭𐎰 (*d-θ /daθa/), Latin decem, Tocharian A śäk.

See also teen.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĕn IPA^(key): /tɛn/, [tʰɛn]
• IPA^(key): /tɪn/ (pin–pen merger)

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• Rhymes: -ɛn, Rhymes: -ɪn (pin–pen merger)
• Homophone: tin (with pin-pen merger)

ten

1. The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.

• tenth

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

1. A set or group with ten elements.

   We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.

2. (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.

   Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.

   tens of thousands of voters

3. (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
4. (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.

   Synonym: tenner

   Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

5. (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.

   Synonym: dime piece

6. (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
   • 1911, The Cambridge Review, volume 32, page 486:

     At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.

   • 1982, Stanley French, Aspects of Downing history, page 105:

     Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.

• Previous: nine (9)
• Next: eleven (11)

• (prefix): deca-, deka-
• (adjective): decadal, decenary
• (a set of 10 items): decimate, decimal; decaplet, decuplet (of babies, musical notes, or baryons)
• (containing 10 items): decenary
• (related to base-10 numeration): See decimal
• (period of 10 months): decimestrial
• (period of 10 years): See decade and decennium
• (related to a 10-year period): See decadal and decennial
• (10-year anniversary): See decennial
• (rule by 10 people): See decemvirate
• (commander of 10 soldiers): See decener
• (chief of 10 men in early English law): See tithingman
• (payment or collection of a 10% tax): See tithe

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• -ent, .NET, ENT, NET, Net, ent, ent-, net

From English ten.

• IPA^(key): /ten/

ten (Bengali script তেন)

1. ten

• chyigyk
• dys / das

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

From English ten.

ten

1. ten

• IPA^(key): /ten/
• Rhymes: -en

ten

1. second-person singular imperative form of tenir

Generally, the imperative form ten is a contextual form of té used when clitic pronouns (e.g., te) are attached to the end of the verb.

ten

1. Hard mutation of den.
2. Mixed mutation of den.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn]

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ten m

1. the; this; that

• ten in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ten in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• ten in Internetová jazyková příručka

A contraction of te + den.

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

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ten

1. to the, at the (followed by a masculine or neuter word)

   ten goede of ten kwade ― for better or for worse

   ten dele ― partly

   ten tijde van ― during the time of

ten is part of many fossilized idiomatic expressions. Being derived in part from te, it is followed by the (similarly fossilized) dative case.

ten is commonly used in Dutch family names such as Corrie ten Boom, Bernhard ten Brink, Marti ten Kate, and Simeon ten Holt.

• ten opzichte van

• ter

• ent, net

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛŋ/

ten

1. has; third-person singular present indicative of ter

   A cervexa ten en Galicia unha longa historia.

   Beer has a long history in Galicia.

2. second-person singular imperative of ter

• “ten” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

• Romanization of 天

ten

1. Rōmaji transcription of てん
2. Rōmaji transcription of テン

From Portuguese ter.

ten

1. to have
2. to possess

ten

1. there

• IPA^(key): [tɛn]

ten (feminine ta, neuter to, dual tej, plural te)

1. this

ten

1. Contraction of te den.

From Old English tīen.

• tene, tenne, tien

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /teːn/
• IPA^(key): /tɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

ten

1. ten

• -tene
• tenthe, tithe
• -ty

• English: ten
• Scots: ten
• Yola: dhen

• “ten, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English tēon, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

• teen, tene

ten (third-person singular simple present teth, present participle teende, teynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tegh, past participle towen)

1. (transitive) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive) To draw away; go; proceed.

• biteon
• forten

From Old Norse tennr, nominative indefinite plural of tǫnn (“tooth”).

ten

1. plural of tothe

From Arabic طَعْن‎ (ṭaʕn, “piercing, attack, criticism”).

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

ten m or f

1. scolding, reproach, censure, blame, criticism, mockery, ridicule
2. threat

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “ten”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

• tēne, tȳn, tīen

See tien

• IPA^(key): /teːn/

tēn

1. (Mercian) ten

1. A. L. Mayhew, M. A. Synopsis of Old English Phonology, 123

• tet

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

ten m

1. this (nearby)

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

• Polish: ten

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “ten”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

From Proto-Nahuan *teːn-, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïni. Compare Classical Nahuatl tēntli (“lips”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /teːŋ/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /teŋ/

-tēn (plural -tejtēn)

1. mouth

   Muchi tikishtukak tik muten kwak tishulutzin katka

   You used to put everything in your mouth when you were a little baby

2. edge, brim

   Shiktema ishta ma ne at ajsi ne iten ne tzutzukul

   Fill it up until the water reaches the edge of the jug

3. opening

   Inat ka ini tepet kishtia pukti tik iten

   They say this volcano expels smoke form its “opening” (its crater)

-tēn

1. on the edge, outside

   Tejchishket ka iten ne shaput

   They waited outside the cave

Inherited from Old Polish ten, from Proto-Slavic *tъ.

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: ten

ten m

1. this (nearby)

The feminine accusative singular form tą is only acceptable in colloquial speech, not in formal writing.

ten

1. Filler word.

   A no, ten... ― Ah, yeah...

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ten is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 1196 times in scientific texts, 782 times in news, 1457 times in essays, 1080 times in fiction, and 1228 times in plays, totaling 5743 times, making it the 10th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• ten in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ten in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “TEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 02.12.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ten”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 42

From French teint.

ten n (plural tenuri)

1. color of the face

From Middle English ten.

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

ten

1. ten

• Andy Eagle, ed., (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

ten m

1. (demonstrative) this (nearby)

• to

• ten in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

• IPA^(key): /ˈten/ [ˈt̪ẽn]

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• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: ten

ten

1. second-person singular imperative of tener

From English time.

ten

1. • 1975, Mighty Botai (lyrics and music), “Sranang Kong Fri”, in Onafhankelijkheid (Srefidensi) Suriname:

     Atleba ten no sa de moro ini Sranan / Den bakra, den ben hori wi na baka / Den de bow den kondre kon na fesi / Meki wi e pina

     The period of toiling will be no more in Suriname / The Dutch, they held us back / They built up their country successfully / Made us suffer

1. time

ten

1. Romanization of 𒋼 (ten)

From Old Swedish ten, from Old Norse teinn (“sprout, twig, branch”).

ten c

1. a rod, a stick (of metal or wood)

• tenn

ten

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

From English ten.

ten

1. ten

Used when counting; see also tenpela.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تن‎ (ten), from Persian تن‎ (tan).

• IPA^(key): /tɛn/

ten (definite accusative teni, plural tenler)

1. skin
2. body
3. (dialectal) vulva of a cow

• “ten”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982