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# ten

«ten» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 10** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number (ten)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ten is the number 10. It is one more than nine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#m1)

2) Ten is the base of our number system: 10 ones make 1 ten, and 10 tens make 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#m2)

3) Ten out of ten means full marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: a number of things, or a place value (tens): 3 tens = 30; counting in tens; multiplying by 10 moves digits one place left. Everyday: ten fingers, ten toes, ten-pin bowling, a ten-dollar note.

### examples

- She has ten pencils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x1)
- Ten children are in the group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x2)
- He saves ten dollars a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x3)
- Count by tens to 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x4)
- We have ten fingers and ten toes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x5)
- She got ten out of ten on the spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x6)
- 4 tens and 7 ones make 47. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x7)
- Ten times ten is one hundred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x8)
- Ten or twelve crippled-beggars had encamped outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/#x9)

### note

A number written in words; read it as 10. «Tens» can mean groups of ten (3 tens = 30). Trap: do not confuse «ten» with «tenth» (10th or 1/10).

### In the corpora

- [A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/19/)
- [Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/5/)
- [Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/9/)
- [An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/9/)
- [A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ten» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.