Definition of Take ten

1. Verb. Take a ten minute break. "The players took ten during the long rehearsal"

Generic synonyms: Break, Intermit, Pause

Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Ten

take sick
take sides
take sign
take silk
take sitting down
take somebody's word for it
take someone's head off
take someone's point
take something as read
take something in one's stride
take something in stride
take something to the grave
take stage
take steps
take stock
take ten (current term)
take that
take the Fifth
take the Fifth Amendment
take the Michael
take the air
take the biscuit
take the bull by the horns
take the cake
take the con
take the count
take the cross
take the cure
take the fall

Literary usage of Take ten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... force me to take ten pieces in gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being become one of our number at the Board. ..."

2. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"Who'll take ten to one? Maj. He's at the lady's feel within this half abjure ihe sex. l)o as you will for me. I will Lar. Never; by all that's manly, never. ..."

3. A Disquisition on Government by John Caldwell Calhoun (1851)
"It would take ten of the larger States, of which Georgia is the smallest, to make up that number;—the federal population of which is ..."

4. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association by American Unitarian Association (1860)
"Why will not our young ministers lay out their work before them for some years, — say, take ten years to it? Let them have a regular object, and a regular ..."

5. The Analysis of Written Arithmetic: Book Second, Designed for Public and by Stoddard A. Felter (1864)
"The analysis and proof are the same as in simple subtraction. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 25. From ten thousand, take ten thousandths. 26. ..."

6. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1847)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."

7. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1841)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."

8. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... force me to take ten pieces in gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being become one of our number at the Board. ..."

9. British Theatre: Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, from by Owen Williams (1828)
"Who'll take ten to one? Maj. He's at the lady's feel within this half abjure ihe sex. l)o as you will for me. I will Lar. Never; by all that's manly, never. ..."

10. A Disquisition on Government by John Caldwell Calhoun (1851)
"It would take ten of the larger States, of which Georgia is the smallest, to make up that number;—the federal population of which is ..."

11. The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association by American Unitarian Association (1860)
"Why will not our young ministers lay out their work before them for some years, — say, take ten years to it? Let them have a regular object, and a regular ..."

12. The Analysis of Written Arithmetic: Book Second, Designed for Public and by Stoddard A. Felter (1864)
"The analysis and proof are the same as in simple subtraction. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 25. From ten thousand, take ten thousandths. 26. ..."

13. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1847)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."

14. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1841)
"On board of a ship, a few men will raise an anchor with a capstan, which it would take ten or twenty times the same number to raise without it, ..."

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