Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation tenor
- abbreviation tenuto
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Examples
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The ratio of insightful comment to shrill diatribe is about one in ten.
Daniel Cubias: The Skill that Every Job Requires? Daniel Cubias 2010
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The ratio of insightful comment to shrill diatribe is about one in ten.
Daniel Cubias: The Skill that Every Job Requires? Daniel Cubias 2010
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The ratio of insightful comment to shrill diatribe is about one in ten.
Daniel Cubias: The Skill that Every Job Requires? Daniel Cubias 2010
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The ratio of insightful comment to shrill diatribe is about one in ten.
Daniel Cubias: The Skill that Every Job Requires? Daniel Cubias 2010
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The ratio of insightful comment to shrill diatribe is about one in ten.
Daniel Cubias: The Skill that Every Job Requires? Daniel Cubias 2010
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It's really quite amazing how long you can keep a conversation going without understanding more than one word in ten.
Boing Boing: September 21, 2003 - September 27, 2003 Archives 2003
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I continued reading by the hour, after the rebbe was gone, though I understood about one word in ten.
The Promised Land 1912
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Mrs. Williamson answered at random, and heard not one word in ten.
Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910
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Not pleasant; but it don't hurt you much, nine times in ten.
Melbourne House 1907
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If you are alive when you strike the river, you can swim ashore; it's one chance in ten.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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