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Definition of Take ten
1. Verb. Take a ten minute break. "The players took ten during the long rehearsal"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Ten
Literary usage of Take ten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... force me to take ten pieces in gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being
become one of our number at the Board. ..."
2. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"Who'll take ten to one? Maj. He's at the lady's feel within this half abjure ihe
sex. l)o as you will for me. I will Lar. Never; by all that's manly, never. ..."
3. A Disquisition on Government by John Caldwell Calhoun (1851)
"It would take ten of the larger States, of which Georgia is the smallest, to make
up that number;—the federal population of which is ..."
4. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association by American Unitarian Association (1860)
"Why will not our young ministers lay out their work before them for some years, —
say, take ten years to it? Let them have a regular object, and a regular ..."
5. The Analysis of Written Arithmetic: Book Second, Designed for Public and by Stoddard A. Felter (1864)
"The analysis and proof are the same as in simple subtraction. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.
25. From ten thousand, take ten thousandths. 26. ..."
6. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1847)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would
take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."
7. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1841)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would
take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."
8. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... force me to take ten pieces in gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being
become one of our number at the Board. ..."
9. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"Who'll take ten to one? Maj. He's at the lady's feel within this half abjure ihe
sex. l)o as you will for me. I will Lar. Never; by all that's manly, never. ..."
10. A Disquisition on Government by John Caldwell Calhoun (1851)
"It would take ten of the larger States, of which Georgia is the smallest, to make
up that number;—the federal population of which is ..."
11. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association by American Unitarian Association (1860)
"Why will not our young ministers lay out their work before them for some years, —
say, take ten years to it? Let them have a regular object, and a regular ..."
12. The Analysis of Written Arithmetic: Book Second, Designed for Public and by Stoddard A. Felter (1864)
"The analysis and proof are the same as in simple subtraction. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.
25. From ten thousand, take ten thousandths. 26. ..."
13. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1847)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would
take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."
14. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1841)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would
take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."
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