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Tenth vs Tench - What's the difference?

tenth | tench |

As adjectives the difference between tenth and tench

is that tenth is the ordinal form of the number ten while tench is (slang) excellent performance in a tense situation.

As nouns the difference between tenth and tench

is that tenth is the person or thing in the tenth position while tench is a species of freshwater game fish,.

tenth

English

(wikipedia tenth)

Adjective

(-)
  • The ordinal form of the number ten.
  • Synonyms

    10th, 10th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) X

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • (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)

    See also

    tithe English ordinal numbers

    tench

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A species of freshwater game fish, .
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) excellent performance in a tense situation.