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hundredweight
English
Alternative forms
- cwt. (abbreviation)
Etymology
16th century, from hundred +? weight.
Noun
hundredweight (plural hundredweight or hundredweights)
- (Canada, US) A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg).
- Synonyms: (historical) cental, (rare) centner, short hundredweight, (historical) quintal
- (Britain) A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg).
- Synonyms: long hundredweight, imperial hundredweight
Usage notes
- The short hundredweight is commonly used in the US in the sale of livestock and some cereal grains and oilseeds, paper, and concrete additives and on some commodities in futures exchanges. Since increasing metrication in most English-speaking countries the long hundredweight is now less used.
- The older designation and measure of weight quintal (“hundredweight”) is not standardized; see the usage notes there for more information.
Descendants
- ? Bengali: *??????? (*hôndôrd)
- Bengali: ????? (hôndôr)
See also
- bushel
- quintal
Translations
hundredweight From the web:
hundred
Translingual
Etymology
From English hundred
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?han.dred]
Numeral
hundred
- Code word for the digits 00 (whole hundreds) in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet
- one zero thousand nine hundred meter (10,900 m)
Usage notes
The code word hundred is used only for whole hundreds, and then only for distances (including altitudes). Thus 10,946 m is one zero thousand nine four six meter and 200° is two zero zero degree.
References
English
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 100 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: C
- ISO prefix: hecto-
- Exponential notation: 102
Etymology
From Middle English hundred, from Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundarad?, from *hund? (from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm) + *rad? (“count”). Compare West Frisian hûndert, Dutch honderd, Low German hunnert, hunnerd, German Hundert, Danish hundred.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?n?dr?d, h?n?dr?d, IPA(key): /?h?nd??d/, /?h?nd??d/
- (mostly nonstandard) IPA(key): /?h?nd?d/, /?h?nd???d/
- Hyphenation: hun?dred
Numeral
hundred (plural hundreds)
- A numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
- hundreds of places, hundreds of thousands of faces
- a hundred, one hundred
- nineteen hundred, one thousand nine hundred
- 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio:
- That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
- 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio:
- [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.
- 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
- Hanaton […] was founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
- 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
- Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies […]
- 2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” [2], “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
- (24-hour clock) The pronunciation of “00” for the two digits denoting the minutes.
- 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
- “Okay. You head over to City Hall East. I’ll meet you there. The briefing starts at eleven hundred, sharp.”
- 2002, Michael Prescott, Next Victim, Signet, page 185:
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine, the word hundred is a noun like dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral.
- a hundred men / one hundred men / the hundred men
- compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men
- compare ten men / the ten men
Hundred can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take -s when preceded by a determiner.
- two hundred men / some hundred men
- hundreds of men
In telling military time, "hundred" is typically only used for exact hours, e.g. 09:00 is "oh nine hundred" and 21:00 is "twenty-one hundred", while 03:30 is "oh three thirty". Sometimes, nonstandardly (e.g. in fiction by authors not entirely familiar with military time-telling), 03:30 may be read as "oh three hundred thirty".
Synonyms
- (numerical): one hundred
Derived terms
- hundredfold, hundredweight, hundredth, hundreds and thousands, hundredaire, yearhundred
Descendants
- ? Hawaiian: haneli, hanele, haneri
Translations
Noun
hundred (plural hundreds)
- A hundred-dollar bill, or any other note denominated 100 (e.g. a hundred euros).
- (historical) An administrative subdivision of southern English counties formerly reckoned as comprising 100 hides (households or families) and notionally equal to 12,000 acres.
- (by extension, historical) Similar divisions in other areas, particularly in other areas of Britain or the British Empire
- (cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
Hypernyms
- (administrative division): See county and tithing
Synonyms
- (US hundred-dollar bill): Franklin, yard, c-note
- (administrative division): barony (Ireland), see also riding, wapentake, rape, commote (Wales)
- (cricket: hundred runs): century
Hyponyms
- (administrative division): See carucate (1?100 hundred & for smaller divisions)
Derived terms
- hundredal
- Hundred End
Translations
See also
- wapentake
Anagrams
- hunderd
Danish
Alternative forms
- (cardinal) hundrede
- (noun) hundrede
Etymology
From Old Norse hundrað (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hundarad?, from *hund? (< Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm) + *rad? (“count”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hunr?d/, [?hun?ð]
Numeral
hundred
- hundred
Descendants
- ? Greenlandic: hundredi
Noun
hundred n (plural indefinite hundreder or hundred, plural definite hundrederne)
- a unit of about one hundred
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hundred, from Proto-Germanic *hundarad? (“hundred”); some forms are remodelled on hundrað.
Alternative forms
- honderd, hondred, houndred, houndreth, hundered, hundereth, hunderyth, hundreþ, hundret, hundreth, hundrid, hundrit, hundrythe, hundurd, hwndreth
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hundr?d/, /?hundr??/, /?hund?r/
Numeral
hundred
- A hundred; 100.
- A large number; a zillion.
Usage notes
Much like modern English hundred, hundred needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.
Derived terms
- hundredfold
Descendants
- English: hundred
- ? Hawaiian: haneli
- Scots: hunder, hunner
- Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hunderth
References
- “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
hundred (plural hundredes)
- A hundredweight.
- A hundred (administrative division)
- The assembly or court of such a division.
Derived terms
- hundredpeny
Descendants
- English: hundred
References
- “hundred, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “hundred, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
A combination of specialised use of the cardinal and hundred (“hundred”) +? -th.
Alternative forms
- hondra?te, hondred, hondreda?te, hundredeþe, hundret, hundreþ, hundreth, hundrid
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hundr?d/, /?hundr??/, /?hund?r/
Adjective
hundred
- A hundredth.
Descendants
- English: hundredth
References
- “hundredethe, ord. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hundarad? (“hundred”), from *hund? + *rad? (“count”). Cognate with Old Frisian hundred, Old Saxon hunderod, Old Dutch *hundert, Old High German hundert, Old Norse hundrað.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xun.dred/, [?hun.dred]
Numeral
hundred n
- hundred
Synonyms
- hund
- hundt?onti?
Descendants
- Middle English: hundred
- English: hundred
- ? Hawaiian: haneli
- Scots: hunder, hunner
- Yola: hindreth, hundreth, hunderth
- English: hundred
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