ten
part of speech
number (ten)
meaning for a pupil
1) Ten is the number 10. It is one more than nine. tree →
2) Ten is the base of our number system: 10 ones make 1 ten, and 10 tens make 100. tree →
3) Ten out of ten means full marks. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Jewish tradition ten is a number of completeness, as in ten commandments and ten men for a prayer group. Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah speaks of ten sefirot, ten numbers on which the world was made. A minyan is ten adults needed for public prayer. In the primary 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
- one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; (Torah NUM.7.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days. (Torah GEN.50.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. (Torah GEN.50.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. (Prophets JOS.15.57, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'My beloved is white and ruddy, pre-eminent above ten thousand. (Writings SNG.5.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases; (Prophets 1KI.7.43, JPS 1917) tree →
- She has ten pencils. tree →
- Ten children are in the group. tree →
- He saves ten dollars a week. tree →
- Count by tens to 100. tree →
- We have ten fingers and ten toes. tree →
- She got ten out of ten on the spelling test. tree →
- 4 tens and 7 ones make 47. tree →
- Ten times ten is one hundred. tree →
- Ten or twelve crippled-beggars had encamped outside. tree →
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.
- Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.
- Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.
- An elephant's trunk has tens of thousands of muscle bundles and can hold things as delicately as fingers.
- A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ten» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.