tenth
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tenth
- /tɛnθ/ UK, US
- [tʰɛn̪θ] UK, US
- /tɪnθ/ pin pen merger
Rhymes with -ɛnθ, (pin–pen merger) -ɪnθ
Where it comes from
From Middle English tenth, tenthe. Old English had tēoþa (origin of Modern English tithe), but the force of analogy to the cardinal number "ten" caused Middle English speakers to recreate the regular ordinal and re-insert the nasal consonant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tehundô. Equivalent to ten (numeral) + -th (suffix forming ordinals).
adjective
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The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.
Similar: X
- Being one of ten equal parts of a whole. The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.
noun tenths
- The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
- One of ten equal parts of a whole. Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is s
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The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
Similar: decima
- A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
- A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
verb tenths · tenthing · tenthed
- To divide by ten, into tenths. A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: one-tenth, ordinal, ten percent, tenth part, eleventh, dozen, ten, sixteenth, thirteenth, fifteenth, ninth, sixth, decade, eighth, tithing, tithe
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adj ordinal form of ten — see also 10th
| Español | décimo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 열째 yeoljjae |
| 日本語 | 十番目 jūban-me |
| 中文 | 第十 dìshí |
| हिन्दी | दसवाँ dasvā̃ |
| Kiswahili | ya kumi |
| Português | décimo |
| Français | dixième, dix |
| Deutsch | zehnte |
| Italiano | decimo, decima |
| Ελληνικά | δέκατος dékatos |
| Română | al zecelea, a zecea |
| Русский | деся́тый desjátyj |
| Tiếng Việt | thứ mười |
| العربية | عَاشِر ʕāšir |
| עברית | עשירי asiri |
noun something in the tenth position
| Español | décimo, décima |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 第十 daijuu |
| 中文 | 第十 dìshí |
| हिन्दी | दसवाँ dasvā̃ |
| Português | décimo, décima |
| Français | dixième |
| Italiano | decimo, decima |
| Ελληνικά | δέκατος dékatos |
| Română | al zecelea, a zecea |
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