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HUNDRED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ten 10s
Synonyms:
100; C; century; hundred; one C
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("hundred" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being ten more than ninety
Synonyms:
100; c; hundred; one hundred
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It’s cost me two hundred pound from first to last, so it isn’t likely I’d give it up without gettin’ my wad.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Seeing himself discovered, the man rushed out from his hiding-place, and bounded at the top of his speed down the line of archers, keeping a good hundred paces to the front of them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had not gone a hundred yards when I reached the stockade.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The stakes are two thousand pounds against a thousand, two hundred to be paid by the winner to his man; play or pay.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Phase III trials may include hundreds of people.
(phase III trial, NCI Dictionary)
A unit for expressing a number as a fraction of hundred (on the basis of a rate or proportion per hundred).
(Percent Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
The flow of qi is restored by using pressure, needles, suction, or heat at hundreds of specific points along the meridians.
(Chinese meridian theory, NCI Dictionary)
Onset is usually within one hundred days of transplantation or immunologic manipulation.
(Acute Graft Versus Host Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
DMGs typically affect a few hundred children a year between ages 4 to 12; most children die within a year of diagnosis.
(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)
