Hundred vs Fashion - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
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(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.
(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
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* John Locke
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(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
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The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
* Bible, Luke ix. 29
* Shakespeare
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
To make, build or construct.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
* 2005 , :
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
* John Locke
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
* Spenser
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
As nouns the difference between hundred and fashion
is that hundred is a hundred-dollar bill while fashion is a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.As a numeral hundred
is a numerical value equal to 100 (102), occurring after ninety-nine.As a verb fashion is
to make, build or construct.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.
Synonyms
* (US hundred-dollar bill) Franklin * centuryDerived terms
* hundredalSee also
* wapentakefashion
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia fashion)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
- the innocent diversions in fashion
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
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- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
* fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashionVerb
(en verb)- I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
- a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (Shakespeare)