ten

number1

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   the number 10

   • There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills. — 1905

noun7

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.
3. •
   A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.

   • Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
4. •
   (slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.

   • An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan. — 2023
5. •
   (US, slang) A high level of intensity.

   • ... Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner): "Why don't you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top number?" Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest): "These go to eleven." — 1984
6. •
   A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
7. •
   The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.

   • 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. — 1911

noun1

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   Initialism of toxic epidermal necrolysis.