Twenty vs Teenty - What's the difference?
twenty | teenty |
The cardinal number , occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
(colloquial) A banknote with a denomination of 20.
(location).
(military) A set of twenty push-ups.
One hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
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As numerals the difference between twenty and teenty
is that twenty is the cardinal number , occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one while teenty is one hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.As a noun twenty
is (colloquial) a banknote with a denomination of 20.twenty
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(wikipedia twenty)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: XXNumeral
(head)Derived terms
* twenties * twentieth * twenty past * twenty to * twenty to the dozen * twenty-twentyNoun
(twenties)- The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty .
- What’s your twenty, good buddy?
- Drop and give me twenty , Ric! (Recruit.)
Statistics
* English cardinal numbersteenty
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(head)- Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty -wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.