Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the primary unit of Indonesia and various other Southeast Asian countries.
- noun A Japanese unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the yen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Japanese copper or bronze coin, equal to the one-hundredth part of a yen or dollar; a Japanese cent. One- and two-sen copper pieces and five-, ten-, twenty-, and fifty-sen silver pieces are in circulation.
- A Middle English variant of
sine . - noun An abbreviation of Senate or Senator.
- noun An abbreviation of
senior . - noun The name given in Hindustan to a unit of weight equal to one kilogram
- noun to a unit of volume equal to the liter. These units and their multiples were legalized in 1871, mainly for use by the railways.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Since.
- noun A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The unit of Japanese currency, equal to 1/100
yen . - noun A coin worth one
yen . - noun Yorkshire
self
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Linnea's unwilling master, the pilot Iain sen Paolo, knows nothing about her secret.
Love Against All Odds: Kristin Landon's 'The Hidden Worlds' 2009
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Now, if I don't agree with my church I find a different church, but Rev Wright is Sen Obama's mentor, (you hear the oratory influence in sen Obama's speaches,) and a cared for "old Uncle."
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"He kin sen 'me back, but I isn't gwine stay wid 'em," replied Isaac, with his mouth full of food.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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Along the highways there are resting places like our post halts; these are called sen-mu Khmer, samnak.
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Your 143 day old sen. is a liberal socialist who wishes to "spread the wealth".
A Mighty Mini Marlin 2008
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May 23rd, 2008 5: 17 pm ET it does'nt matter if the supers go against the people and nominate obama because the people will write in sen. clinton in nov. and she will beat both obama and McCain. so all you clinton supporters write her in.
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Dessutom sög förra inlägget som jag skrev ett bra tag sen O. O.engelskan var hemsk och när jag läser det nu hittar jag massor med stavfel.
maccadole Diary Entry maccadole 2004
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Nerves running inward toward the spinal cord and the brain are called sen'so ry nerves; those from the brain and spinal cord outward, mo'tor nerves.
A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896
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This kind of noodle dish is made only with the extremely fine-gauge, thread-like rice noodles called sen mee, and the broth is delicious.
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Okay, but what the heck is "sen" and why have both candidates used that non-word?
Debate word clouds. Ann Althouse 2008
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