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• ten-fold

語源

From 中期英語 tenfold, tenfolde, from 古期英語 tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten +‎ -fold.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈtɛnfoʊld/

形容詞

tenfold (not comparable)

1. Ten times as much or as many.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 198, lines 923–925:

     [F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.

2. Containing ten parts.

同意語

• (containing ten parts): denary
• (ten times as much): decuple

派生語

副詞

tenfold (not comparable)

1. By ten times as much.
   • 1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."
   • 1987 August 15, Stephen William Gumpl, “Refusing To Become A Piece”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4:

     I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications.

動詞

tenfold (third-person singular simple present tenfolds, present participle tenfolding, simple past and past participle tenfolded)

1. To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.

アナグラム

• fold net

副詞

ten-fold (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of tenfold.