Cent
[sent] or [sɛnt]
Definition
(n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
(n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
(n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hundred.[2]. Copper, ten mills, the one hundredth part of a dollar.
Checker: Tina
Definition
n. a hundred: an American coin—the hundredth part of a dollar.—ns. Cent′age rate by the hundred; Cent′al a weight of 100 lb. proposed for general adoption legalised in 1878.—Per cent. by the hundred.
Checker: Yale
Examples
- Where the market rate of interest is five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Twenty per cent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So when the men came to ask for the five per cent. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It secured further 40 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Obviously, at each step the percentage of felspar and phosphorus is less and less until in the final concentrates the percentage of iron oxide is 91 to 93 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Putting the sum at $175,000, and the interest at 6 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was charged at the rate of two or three per cent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When this great company, therefore, bought gold bullion in order to have it coined, they were obliged to pay for it two per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Let us suppose, for example, that in the particular town where he lived, ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Edison confesses that he has never made a cent out of his patents in electric light and power--in fact, that they have been an expense to him, and thus a free gift to the world. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The average rate of industrial growth in the United States is 10 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If the agio of the bank, however, should at any time fall to three per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But allowing the colony security to be perfectly good, ?100, payable fifteen years hence, for example, in a country where interest is at six per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At one time we had so many orders on hand we wanted $200,000 worth of copper, and didn't have a cent to buy it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After getting our lunch and upon reaching the sidewalk, Borst opened his mouth, and said: 'That's a great place; a plate of cakes, a cup of coffee, and a Russian bath, for ten cents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He sold a couple of hundred at five cents each. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- After trying for a week I gave it up and returned to New York with but a few cents in my pocket. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dewar produced the first ounce of liquid air at a cost of $3,000, but that now Mr. Tripler claims that he can produce it by his apparatus for five cents a gallon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Another crowd met him at the next stop, and he raised his price to ten cents a copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was an average cost per lamp for meter operation of twenty-two cents a year, and each meter took care of an average of seventeen lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The price was three cents a copy, or eight cents a month for regular subscribers, and the circulation ran up to over four hundred copies an issue. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The commission charged for buying or selling is twelve and a half cents a share, so that on the usual order of one hundred shares, the broker receives twelve dollars and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Presently the other store put up a sign stating they had received three hundred pairs, price three cents per pair, and stated that they had no connection with the store next door. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Every Sunday there was a bull fight for the amusement of those who would pay their fifty cents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sixteen years ago the lamps were $1 each; to-day they can be bought for 18 cents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Messages now go across the Atlantic and are received on the siphon recorder at the rate of fifty words a minute, and at a cost of twenty-five cents a word. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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