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TEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("ten" is a kind of...):
spot (a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("ten" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being one more than nine
Synonyms:
10; ten; x
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(2;5)(p23;q35) which fuses the first 4 exons of the NPM1 gene with the last ten exons of the ALK gene.
(NPM1/ALK Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
In ten minutes, however, the child had been perfectly well again.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Carbohydrates consisting of between two (DISACCHARIDES) and ten MONOSACCHARIDES connected by either an alpha- or beta-glycosidic link.
(Oligosaccharide, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The alpha subunit has an extracellular domain containing ten potential glycosylation sites, a transmembrane domain, and a short cytoplasmic tail.
(Integrin Alpha X, NCI Thesaurus)
There are ten enzymes that catalyze the steps in glycolysis that convert glucose into pyruvate, and the entire pathway is located in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells.
(Glycolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Encoded as ten alternate splicing variant isoforms by human BIN1 Gene, ubiquitously expressed nucleocytoplasmic adaptor protein Bridging Integrator 1 exhibits differential binding to dynamin, synaptojanin (via sh3 domain), alpha-adaptin, endophilin, clathrin, and MYC protein.
(Bridging Integrator 1, NCI Thesaurus)
They come out to feed about every five to ten days.
(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)
In a few days Mr. Bingley returned Mr. Bennet's visit, and sat about ten minutes with him in his library.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(2;11)(p23;p15) which fuses most of the CARS gene with the last ten exons of the ALK gene.
(CARS/ALK Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(2;17)(p23;q23) which fuses the first 31 exons of the CLTC gene with the last ten exons of the ALK gene.
(CLTC/ALK Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
