(n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.
Example Sentences:
(1) It made perfect sense to use to spread those kinds of features and hardware around the wrist instead of throwing them all into one thick lump under the screen on top of your wrist,” said Omer El Fakir, industrial designer of Blocks.
(2) They chose only to lift the subsidies, leaving other major items untouched – for example, the majority of the budget is still directed to the war,” said Omer al-Digair, chairman of the Sudanese Congress Party.
(3) Groups of children from 5 different places of residency were tested: (1) urban children from the city of Beer-Sheva; (2) children from Omer, a suburb of the city; (3) children from rural communes ("kibbutz"); (4) children from small agricultural settlements ("moshav"); and (5) seminomadic bedouin children.
(4) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Leigh Daynes, executive director of Doctors of the World UK, said he had encountered 10-year-old Syrian boys living in a ditch at the edge of a farmer’s field outside Saint Omer.
(5) The uncle of the Deghayes boys, Omer, was also linked to LIFG, an outlawed group that the US state department says has links with al-Qaida.
(6) The Authors describe history, etiopatogenesis, clinic, therapy of omeral epicondilitis, very frequent affection.
(7) Omer el-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain, said: “My reaction to the cartoon is disgust, but tending more to annoyance as well because I feel that what’s happening here is not that different from what we witnessed back in 2005 with the Danish cartoons when media outlets went into a cycle of just publishing the cartoons just to show defiance.
(8) At about that time, Beattyville’s police chief, Omer Noe, and the Lee County sheriff, Johnny Mann, were jailed for taking bribes to protect drug smugglers.
(9) How Twitter reacted to Nadiya's Great British Bake Off victory Read more Her victory “demonstrated the inclusivity of British Muslims in society”, according to Dr Omer El-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain.
(10) The flames went all the way up to the sky,” said Omer Yilmaz, who works as a cleaner at the nearby Dolmabahce mosque, directly across the road from the stadium.
(11) Another 12 people were killed in an ambush involving a roadside bomb in Sangin district in Helmand province, also in the south, on Friday evening, said Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(12) Mehreen Omer (@mehreen_omer) @MohammadFarooq_ The current Education Spend to GDP ratio in #Pakistan is hardly 2%, which is one of the lowest in the world!
(13) "We do not have any formal information," spokesman Waheed Omer told the Guardian today.
(14) Zlatan Ibrahimovic says PSG owners will ‘hunt down Champions League’ Read more And in ‘throw enough of it at the wall’ news, United are also set to decimate Bayer Leverkusen by swooping for the defender Omer Toprak , the midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu and the striker Karim Bellarabi .
(15) Omer Simjee, Employment partner at Irwin Mitchell said: “This is a significant ruling and although being ‘fat’ is not enough in itself to be considered disabled, it could if it restricts an individual’s ability to actively and fully engage in their work.
(16) Doa’a Kutbi Omer, public health officer, International Medical Corps, Attouahi, Aden “Snipers had already taken up positions in the neighbourhood and the area was besieged.
(17) Three policemen were killed and four badly wounded in a 20 minute firefight, according to Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(18) We put all of the bodies in pickups and brought them to Omer Ben Al-Khattab mosque in Jdaidet Artouz.
(19) Omer would be detained at Guantánamo Bay from 2002-2007 and interrogated over “general-to-specific information on LIFG personalities and activities” within the UK.
(20) The Rockets had been planning to make a free-agency push, clearling up the cap space beforehand by sending Jeremy Lin to the Lakers and shipping off backup center Omer Asik to the New Orleans Pelicans.
Tenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
(2) These patients represent the ninth and tenth successful operations for IAA in this age group and are reported with long-term reevaluation.
(3) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
(4) Antigenicity was maintained up to the tenth passage.
(5) Roughly a tenth of treatment cycles and roughly a fifth of embryo transfers resulted in a clinical pregnancy.
(6) The tertiary base has been found to have papaverine like nonspecific smooth muscle relaxant and spasmolytic activity, but its activity was found to be about one-tenth of that of papaverine.
(7) Etizolam inhibited PAF-induced aggregation in a dose-dependent manner, with an IC50 of 3.8 microM, about one tenth that of triazolam (IC50 = 30 microM).
(8) With a tenth of the normal chloride conductance calculated responses show maintained firing following a constant current if the deactivating rate of the sodium channels (betam) is reduced by 25%.
(9) Bernanke says losses could be thought of in terms of 760,000 "full-time equivalent jobs" or unemployment down "another seven or eight tenths, something like that."
(10) One hundred patients were screened for hypercoagulability preoperatively and on the third, seventh, tenth, fourteenth, and twenty-first days postoperatively.
(11) Denervation of the kidney increased the urinary outputs of sodium and potassium while it decreased the rate of renin secretion to one-tenth of the resting value.
(12) Administration of dihydrotestosterone led to inhibition of xenograft growth at the ninth passage compared with untreated controls (P less than 0.05), but had no effect on xenograft growth at the tenth and twelfth passages when androgen receptors were absent.
(13) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(14) The tenth patient died from sepsis four months after the onset of steroid resistance.
(15) There was no detectable plasmid DNA at the tenth cell passages.
(16) PMPC, administered in dosis (200 mg per day) one-tenth those of NA (2,000 mg per day), produced a greater improvement (therapeutic effects) than NA.
(17) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(18) Parallel to these alterations in the parasitism, the evolution of the corticosteronemy differs, from two points of view, from that described in infested virgin rats: --Suppression of the hypercorticosteronemy which normally appears 48 hours after infestation; --Attenuation of the hypocorticosteronemy which usually sets in from the tenth day of infestation.
(19) In addition, with interest rates remaining low across the eurozone, a nation that traditionally saves a tenth of its income has had to learn to look elsewhere to park its savings.
(20) The detachment process of the domestic chick from its mother, or any other imprinting object occurs between the sixth and tenth week after hatching.