Word Finder - tens

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A set or group with ten elements.

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

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A card in a given suit with a value of ten.

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A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units. See also tenner.

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Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

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A perfect specimen, a physically attractive person.

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A high level of intensity.

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The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.

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A pair of tens.

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The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.

The " bows " were grouped in tens and hundreds.

They'd been patient, setting up their ultimate victory over the course of tens of thousands of years.

Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands of slaves?

The help of the engraver had early been called in; and tens of thousands of children looked with terror and delight on execrable copperplates, which represented Christian thrusting his sword into Apollyon, or writhing in the grasp of Giant Despair.

There was an Indian church in Natick, at what is now called South Natick or " Oldtown," from 1660 to 1716; and for some years the community was governed, in accordance with the eighteenth chapter of Exodus, by " rulers of tens," " rulers of fifties," and " rulers of hundreds."

Within a generation of the death of the two great founders, Dominic (1221) and Francis (1226), their institutes had spread all over Europe and into Asia, and their friars could be numbered by tens of thousands.

Printed in tens of thousands of copies are certain apocalyptic legends dealing with eschatological problems. The ancient Apocalypse of Peter appears here under the name of Paul, then there is an Apocalypse of the Virgin Mary, who, like Peter, is carried by the Archangel through the torments of Hell and the bliss of Paradise, and through whose intervention sufferers are granted pardon on certain days of the year.

I waited tens of thousands of years for one of us to have the mating tattoo appear.

The south and central region was the land of the bison, its grasses affording a great pasture ground for tens of thousands of "buffaloes."

I've been collecting vamp magic for tens of thousands of years.

A mission in Persia, with its handful of converts, has, on this view, as much right to support and appreciation as a mission in southern India with its tens of thousands.

Similarly when we get to ten tens we denote them by a new representation of the figure denoting one.

To prevent confusion the zero or " nought " is introduced, so that the successive figures, beginning from the right, may represent ones, tens, hundreds,.

The system of counting by twenties instead of by tens has existed in many countries; and, though there is no corresponding notation, it still exhibits itself in the names of numbers.

This, If We Regard 3.4 2 7 As 4274 2742 7, Is A Direct Consequence Of The Commutative Law For Addition (§ 58 (Iii)), Which Enables Us To Add Separately The Hundreds, The Tens And The Ones.

You've had tens of thousands of years to get rid of me.

She stared at the pillow clutched in her arms, suddenly understanding the other side of Xander, the one that remained beyond loyal to a woman who had died tens of thousands of years ago.

These are visited annually by tens of thousands of pilgrims, not only from the surrounding regions, but also from Persia and India; many of whom bring their dead to be buried in the neighbourhood of the sacred tombs.

Similarly two hundred and fifty-three does not mean two hundreds, five tens and three ones, but one more than two hundred and fifty-two; and the number which is called one hundred is not defined as ten tens, but as one more than ninetynine.

In these early days of the Internet Renaissance, the number of great masters is in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds.

In the Hindu system the numbering proceeds by tens, tens of tens, &c.; thus the figure in the fifth place, counting from the right, denotes the product of the corresponding number by four tens in succession.

On the other hand, it would seem that, for most educated people, sixteen and seventeen or twenty-six and twenty-seven, and even eighty-six and eighty-seven, are single numbers, just as six and seven are, and are not made up of groups of tens and ones.

You can find her fan pages on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, on which she already has tens of thousands friends and supporters.

Young people shared the Events, and viral marketing, or spontaneous sharing, of the events spread throughout Facebook until tens of thousands of people joined the protests that were seen on television worldwide.

Thus 1876 is not 1 thousand, 8 hundred, 7 tens and 6, but 18 hundred and 76, each of the numbers 18 and 76 being named as if it were a single number.

Thus, on the grouping system, 27.153 will mean 2.10+ 7+1/10+5/10 2 +3/10 3, while on the counting system it will mean the result of counting through the tens to 2, then through the ones to 7, then through tenths to 1, and so on.

Thomas Paines Rights of Man, ptrblished in 1791, a brilliant and bitter attack on the British constitution from the Jacobin point of view, sold by tens of thousands.

The most important manufacturing interest in England was paralysed by the loss of the raw cotton, which was obtained almOst exclusively from the United States, and tens of thousands of workpeople were thrown out of employment.

At home, a terrible murrain had fallen on the cattle, inflicting ruin on the agricultural interest; a grave commercial crisis was creating alarm in the city of London, and, in its consequences, injuring the interests of labor; while the working classes, at last roused from their long indifference, and angry at the rejection of Lord Russells bill, were assembling in their tens of thousands to demand reform.

But when this change is more fully investigated, it is found to be really periodic, so that after thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of years, its direction will be reversed and so on continually, like the rising and falling tide.

My … mate's house is sitting on the bodies of tens of thousands of Guardians.

Knowledge gathered over tens of thousands of millennia … gone!

He started the vampire race tens of thousands of years ago.

This edition includes updated chapters on NSAIDs, headaches, TENS, hypnosis, and regional anesthesia.

Tens of thousands of people were emboldened by the participatory praxis of the seemingly bygone anti-capitalist movement.

Current status The sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti occurs in groups of a few tens to several hundred individuals.

Tens of thousands more are found at lower cutoffs.

Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marching in Istanbul.

In addition, TENS encourages the body to release its own pain killing hormones, called endorphins.

When using TENS to help activate endorphins we use Burst Tens Mode.

Popular support, grounded in ancient enmity, withered as tens of thousands of coffins arrived from the battlefields.

Probably he was a freedman or son of a freedman of the emperor 's household, which included thousands or tens of thousands.

A small fraction of that amount could fully commercialize fuel cells within five years and create tens of thousands of jobs.

Guillemots are extremely gregarious, colonial breeding is the norm and colonies can contain many tens of thousands of individuals.

I strapped on the TENS machine and Graham assembled the pool, between massaging my back.

Indeed, it may be many years, or tens of years, before there are noticeable changes in the soil microflora.

Material in the rings ranges in size from a few micrometers to several tens of meters.

Tens of thousand of people have died in three years of conflict in Darfur, most killed by pro-government militias.

Why, then, could not proletarian art be created in tens of years?

Without any real consultation with the PCS, Government Ministers calmly cast tens of thousands of mainly poorly paid public servants into unemployment.