Tenth
[tenθ] or [tɛnθ]
Definition
(noun.) position ten in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tithe.
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Definition
adj. the last of ten: next in order after the ninth.—n. one of ten equal parts.—adv. Tenth′ly in the tenth place.
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Examples
- He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The tithe, which is but a tenth of the produce, is found to be a very great hindrance to improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I saw a great deal of the Duc de Guiche, who used to be called, while in the Tenth Hussars, the Count de Grammont, during my short stay at Brighton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was reduced to a tenth only in the course of the present century. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was to the alternating voice that gave out about one-tenth of them--the voice that had wished her good night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Were you there, Tenente, when they wouldn't attack and they shot every tenth man? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The insurgents gathered at the H?tel de Ville, and on the tenth of August the Commune launched an attack on the palace of the Tuileries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dinner, which was given expressly for the officers of the Tenth Hussars, he was obliged to attend. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Have mercy, O Master of the Tenth Cycle! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This tax was originally a half; it soon afterwards fell to a third, then to a fifth, and at last to a tenth, at which late it still continues. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this case, though there was no tythe, the rent of the landlord could amount to no more than one-fifth or two-tenths of the whole produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is an astonishing fact that nine-tenths of the so-called maple sugar and maple syrup sold as the genuine articles are nothing more than clever imitations. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- That is to say, the air which we breathe and in which we move is four-fifths nitrogen, yet in the richest soil there is seldom more than one-tenth or two-tenths of one per cent of nitrogen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If nine-tenths of this quantity are imported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The larger part of many of our foods is composed of water; more than half of the weight of the meat we eat is made up of water; and vegetables are often more than nine tenths water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. Plato. The Republic.
- Sixty-five per cent of all the telephones in the world are in this country, although it has only five and five-tenths per cent of the world’s population. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Why not (say) make the internal part 1 and the external 9, thus saving nine-tenths and losing only one-tenth? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But to concentrate nine-tenths of your attention on the subject of dykes is to forget the civilization they are supposed to protect. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He might be dead in nine-tenths, yet the remaining tenth remained unchanged, till it too was torn apart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In this case, the rent of the landlord, instead of amounting to a half, or five-tenths of the whole produce, will amount only to four-tenths of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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