What are 10 multiple meaning words?

What are some multiple meaning words?

List 1: bolt, bat, bowl, bat, bark, bowl, bark, bolt, bit, bit. List 2: clip, can, box, clip, can, club, club, box, check, check. List 3: eye, dip, down, down, dip, fair, dress, fair, dress, eye. List 4: foot, hard, gum, gum, fly, hard, file, fly, foot, file. List 5: hit, jam, last, left, last, hide, left, hide, jam, ...

What is the word for something 10 times?

a tenfold quantity or multiple. verb (used with object), dec·u·pled, dec·u·pling. to make ten times as great.

What word has the most multiple meanings?

The word with the most meanings in English is the verb 'set', with 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.

Which word has 645 meanings?

One three-letter word does much of the heavy lifting in the English language. The little word "run" — in its verb form alone — has 645 distinct meanings.

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What are the 20 examples of homophones?

What is a group of ten called?

Usage and terms. A collection of ten items (most often ten years) is called a decade. The ordinal adjective is decimal; the distributive adjective is denary.

What is a 10 fold?

Definition of tenfold

1 : being 10 times as great or as many.

What is the word for 100 times?

•a hundred times (noun)

hundredfold.

What words have 3 meanings?

What is the word for 6 times?

Definition of sextuple

(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : having six units or members. 2 : being six times as great or as many.

What is the meaning of hundredfold?

adjective. a hundred times as great or as much. comprising a hundred parts or members. adverb. in a hundredfold measure.

What is centenary celebration?

A centenary, like its cousin centennial, is an anniversary. Thus, the year 2013 may mark the centenary of a town's founding, and the year-long calendar of public events that the town sponsors for the occasion—that is, the celebration of the anniversary—can also be called a centenary.

How much is Onefold?

Onefold of the paper doubles the thickness from one sheet to two, so a onefold increase is doubling. Folding it again doubles the thickness from two sheets to four and folding it a third time doubles it again to eight sheets. So, a threefold increase means a multiple of eight.

Is 10 times the same as tenfold?

1. (Mathematics) equal to or having 10 times as many or as much: a tenfold increase in population. (Mathematics) by or up to 10 times as many or as much: the population increased tenfold.

Is tenfold one word or two?

ten times as great or as much. in tenfold measure: good deeds rewarded tenfold.

What things come in groups of 10?

Crabs have 10 legs. Squids have 10 limbs. Shrimp have 10 legs. Bowling has 10 pins.

Why is the number 10 special?

Most counting systems around the world use the base-ten numeral system. This means that we count in blocks of ten, such as ten, twenty, thirty, and so on. Because of this, any number which has a zero in can always be divided by ten.

What are the 25 examples of homophones?

What is the meaning of Centuple?

adjective. a hundred times as great; hundredfold.

What mean honks?

1 : to make the characteristic cry of a goose. 2 : to make a sound resembling the cry of a goose. transitive verb. : to cause to honk honk a horn. honk.