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See also: TENS
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛnz
Noun
[edit]tens
Noun
[edit]tens pl (plural only)
- An inexact quantity or number, typically understood to be between 10 or 20 and 100.
- Synonym: dozens
- Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
- tens of thousands of voters
- 1987, w:Iain M. Banks, “Prologue”, in w:Consider Phlebas:
- Several tens of hours out on its first journey, while it was testing its track scanner by focusing back along the route it had taken, the ship registered a single massive annihilation explosion deep behind it, where the factory craft had been.
- (poker slang) A pair of tens.
- The period from a year 100x + 10 to a year 100x + 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s). The teens, the oneties.
Usage notes
[edit]To express inexact number, dozens is much more common than tens, except when conveying order of magnitude, such as "tens of thousands [, millions, etc]".[1]
Translations
[edit]plural of 'ten'
plural of 'approximately ten'
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second decade of a century
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References
[edit]See also
[edit]22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
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21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
14th century | 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s |
Decade only | 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s | |
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's | |
zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties | |
Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin tēnsus. Compare the inherited doublet tes.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tens (feminine tensa, masculine plural tensos, feminine plural tenses)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tens
- second-person singular present indicative of tenir
- second-person singular present indicative of tindre
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tens
Further reading
[edit]- “tens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]tens
- (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of ter
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French tens, tans, from Latin tempus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tens (plural tenses or tens)
Descendants
[edit]- English: tense
References
[edit]- “tens(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tens oblique singular, m (oblique plural tens, nominative singular tens, nominative plural tens)
- Alternative form of tans
- 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 1, column 2, line 16:
- Ki trop i prent son tens i pert
- He who spends too much of his time on it suffers as a result
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin tenēs. Cognate with Galician tes and Spanish tienes. Also compare with vens.
Pronunciation
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Verb
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Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]tens
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