Definition of "oughts" []

• Plural form of ought. (noun)
• The first decade of a century, such as the 1900s, 2000 to 2009, etc, where the digit in the tens place is zero. (noun)

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• "Yet Mendel's scientific papers themselves have not a bit of moral evaluation within them: no prescriptions, no exhortations, no "shoulds" or "oughts" -- only the straightforward exposition of observations and hypotheses."
• "And lest you think this is a rhetorical goof, he follows it up with a truly wankerrific list of further "oughts" -- "After all, it ought to be true that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
• "Unfortunately, arriving at a moral framework that incoprates these "oughts" requires instructions from outside of mankind, which leads to discussion of religion and Ms. Rand hated religion."