What's the difference between ordinal and tenth?

Ordinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an order.
  • (n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.
  • (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
  • (n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
  • (2) A group called Campaign for Houston , which led the opposition, described the ordinance as “an attack on the traditional family” designed for “gender-confused men who … can call themselves ‘women’ on a whim”.
  • (3) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
  • (4) At 5 micrometer and 2.5 mM sulphanilic acid under aerobic conditions, the regression lines for the permeation from lumen to blood pass almost through the origin, while the regression lines for the permeation from blood to lumen intersect the ordinate at a positive Y-value.
  • (5) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
  • (6) We report here that histidine residues are essential for the co-ordination of these ion(s).
  • (7) The key feature is the physicians' acceptance of the nurse co-ordinator as a colleague.
  • (8) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
  • (9) Ventricular diffuse atrophy correlated positively with psychic and co-ordinative impairment and dysarthria, and cortical diffuse cerebral atrophy with psychic impairment (P smaller than 0.01 to 0.001).
  • (10) Agir, launched in June as the Sahel crisis was taking hold, lays out a roadmap for better co-ordination of humanitarian and development aid to protect the most vulnerable people when drought hits again.
  • (11) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
  • (12) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
  • (13) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
  • (14) "At first sight, today's announcement of an independent commissioner is a missed opportunity to strengthen our co-ordinated approach to addressing these very serious matters.
  • (15) The sampling was balanced with respect to age, gender, and predisposition across the three ordinal exposure categories.
  • (16) The metal co-ordination chemistry at the binding site varies depending on the metal that is introduced into it.
  • (17) Ordinal data, ie, grades and ranks, may be analyzed by means of the t-test which is more sensitive and allows more refined analyses if needed.
  • (18) Sandra Carvao, its co-ordinator of communications, said: "Correct would be to say UNWTO has presented both presidents with an open letter which calls for them to support tourism as a means to foster sustainable development in their countries to the benefit of their people and consequently ask them to support the sector in this respect."
  • (19) In this paper something is given of their evolution, diversity, aims and activities; and of the important role they now play in many instances, as well as some of the obstacles to collaboration, co-ordination and integration at different levels of operation--internationally, nationally and locally.
  • (20) Updated at 2.48pm GMT 1.42pm GMT Another question riffing off Britain's EU referendum - how will Europe draw up new structures such as co-ordinated banking supervision when some members of the EU are refusing to ever join the single currency?

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.