Tensとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tens

1. plural of ten

名詞

tens pl (plural only)

1. 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, Iain M. Banks, “Prologue”, in 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.

2. (poker slang) A pair of tens.
3. The period from a year 100x + 10 to a year 100x + 19 (mostly referring to the 1910s or 2010s). The teens, the oneties.

使用する際の注意点

To express inexact number, dozens is much more common than tens, except when conveying order of magnitude, such as "tens of thousands [, millions, etc]".

参照

参考

アナグラム

• NETs, Sten, nets, NEST, sent., ENTs, Ents, Nest, ents, snet, nest, sent

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɛns/

名詞

tens (plural tenses or tens)

1. (grammar) tense

派生した語

• English: tense

参照

• “tens(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.