Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or consisting of a hundred; reckoning or proceeding by the hundred.
- noun A weight of 100 pounds avoirdupois, used at Liverpool for corn, and proposed to be generally adopted in the trade and commerce of Great Britain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a
Hundredweight . - noun Relating to a hundred.
- noun the method of buying and selling by the cental, or hundredweight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to a
hundred .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Last winter, I had an opportunity to go quail hunting on my Dad's farm in cental Illinois where I grew up.
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That Chomsi sits atop a 100m peak in cental Luang Prabang.
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If an LPA decides that it wants to satisfy an obvious local need by approving an application to build houses, why on earth should 'cental' government stop it.
Archive 2007-01-01 Glyn Davies 2007
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If an LPA decides that it wants to satisfy an obvious local need by approving an application to build houses, why on earth should 'cental' government stop it.
Why Not Just Build New Houses. Glyn Davies 2007
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Besides advancing technology, to inspire next generations of engineers and scientists, send up a hundred palmed sized robotic vehicles in one lunar landing with a cental hub or command post.
reesetee commented on the word cental
a hundredweight of 112 lb.
March 28, 2007