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Definitions of ten

  1.   One more than nine; twice five.
  2.   The sum of five and five; ten units; a sign for ten units, as 10 or x.
  3.   A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
  4.   A figure denoting ten units, as 10 or X.
  5.   Nine and one more.
  6.   being one more than nine
  7.   the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
  8.   Twice five.
  9.   Sum of two fives.
  10.   The number twice five, or a figure denoting it.
  11.   Nine and one.
  12.   The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.

Antonyms for ten

ordinal, dog.

Quotes of ten

  1. Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology. – Avi Arad
  2. Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. – Yasser Arafat
  3. Ten -year -old boys move differently than middle -aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats. – Brad Bird
  4. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. – James Cameron
  5. I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche. – Cameron Diaz
  6. We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. – Isadora Duncan
  7. The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed. – Lee Krasner
  8. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  9. When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten – Mary MacLane
  10. The cynics are right nine times out of ten – H. L. Mencken
  11. Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me. – Ruud van Nistelrooy
  12. For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier- Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. – Eric S. Raymond
  13. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. – Barbra Streisand
  14. I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. – Billy Wilder
  15. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. – Ted Williams

Usage examples for ten

  1. “ And she said, " Go, my dear, if I wait ten years for you." ” – The Delectable Duchy by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  2. “ In ten minutes, I'm off. ” – The Crystal Stopper by Maurice LeBlanc
  3. “ " I'm more than a dozen years older than you are, close to ten years older than Isadore. ” – Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
  4. “ Have an apple orchard of twenty trees, most of them ten years old. ” – The Apple by Various
  5. “ " I'll be back in ten she said. ” – Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
  6. “ Just you sit and wait here for ten minutes. ” – The Man From the Clouds by J. Storer Clouston
  7. “ He'd been here ten minutes, and he'd told me the story of his life. ” – Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford
  8. “ And so there were ten of them. ” – The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
  9. “ But not one day over ten weeks, so help me! ” – Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
  10. “ Don't forget that you have lived in fear of me for ten long years." ” – Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
  11. “ " Tell them I will see them in ten minutes," said the banker. ” – Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
  12. “ And he was for ten years. ” – The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
  13. “ Think of it- for ten years I've never known a minute when I wasn't afraid of death! ” – The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair
  14. “ The answer was, she had left the hotel about ten days. ” – Foul Play by Charles Reade Dion Boucicault
  15. “ They were there for ten days or so, while they did their business with me. ” – Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
  16. “ Of a certain minister it is said " He can do more in ten minutes than most men do in a day." ” – Seed Thoughts for Singers by Frank Herbert Tubbs
  17. “ It won't take you longer than ten minutes. ” – The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil
  18. “ But there are two other things I want for that ten thousand. ” – Smoke Bellew by Jack London
  19. “ I don't know that I was ever ten minutes in his company that you were not there also. ” – Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope
  20. “ Only ten minutes more to wait. ” – A College Girl by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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