What is the difference between dollar and hundred?
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Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is .
(by extension) Money generally.
* Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
Colloquially in the United Kingdom, a quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
* 1990 October 28, (Paul Simon), “Born at the Right Time”, (The Rhythm of the Saints) , Warner Bros.
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(attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
* 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London;
* 1956 The Spectator Vol.197 p.342:
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
* 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday , National Public Radio:
* 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking , National Public Radio:
* 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered , National Public Radio:
* 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered , National Public Radio:
* 2011 , Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means” [http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0035-ironic.htm?&t=1344795725], “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
(US, Canada) A hundred-dollar bill.
(historical) An administrative subdivision of land in southern English counties and in other countries.
(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
As nouns the difference between dollar and hundred
is that dollar is official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including canada, australia, the united states, hong kong, and elsewhere its symbol is while hundred is (us) a hundred-dollar bill.As a numeral hundred is
(cardinal) a numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.dollar
English
Noun
(en noun)- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar , magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
- We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
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Hansard vol 504 col 271, 22 July 1952:
- The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
- For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others : dollar' films and ' dollar tobacco.
Coordinate terms
afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, , pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zlotyDerived terms
* Australian dollar * * BZD * dollar diplomacy * look like a million dollars * petrodollar * the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question * top dollar * US dollarSee also
* cent * dale * mill * mille * vale * valley ----hundred
English
(wikipedia hundred)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: C * ISO prefix: hecto- * Exponential notation: 102Numeral
(en noun)- hundreds' of places, ' hundreds of thousands of faces
- a hundred', one ' hundred
- nineteen hundred', one thousand nine ' hundred
- That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
- [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.
- Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
- Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
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 menSynonyms
* (numerical) one hundred *Derived terms
* hundredfold, hundredweight, hundredth, hundreds and thousands, hundredaireNoun
(en noun)- He made a hundred in the historic match.