ten

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, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 15:

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

tammá

the cardinal number occurring after 9 and before 11

十

じゅう, jū; とお, tō

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”). See also teen.


ten

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

They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.

1958 May 5, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 392:

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

tens of thousands of voters

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

(countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.

Can you give me two tens for this twenty?

(countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.

I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us.

2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio:

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 September 11, Danielle Cohen, “Why Am I Attracted to My Coworker? Meet ‘The Office Ten’”, in New York Magazine:

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

(countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.

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, The Cambridge Review, volume 32, page 486:

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

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

(countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.

en-noun

ten (countable and uncountable, plural tens)

not touch something with a ten-foot pole

kymmenen (use with ryhmä, kasa, nippu etc.)

kymppi

denomination of currency with a value of ten