Tenth vs Omer - What's the difference?
tenth | omer |
The ordinal form of the number ten.
The person or thing in the tenth position.
One of ten equal parts of a whole.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (music) 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.
(UK, legal, historical, in the plural) 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.
(Webster 1913)
A dry measure of ancient Israel, one tenth of an ephah.
*1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Exodus XVI:
*:And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
*1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
*:that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.
As nouns the difference between tenth and omer
is that tenth is the person or thing in the tenth position while omer is a dry measure of ancient Israel, one tenth of an ephah.As an adjective tenth
is the ordinal form of the number ten.tenth
English
(wikipedia tenth)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
10th, 10th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) XNoun
(en noun)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}