Cent

Definition: Cent

Cent

Noun

1. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.

2. A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cent" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Etymology: Cent \Cent\, noun. [French expression cent hundred, from Latin expression centum. See Hundred.]. (references)

Aerospace

Finance

Fine Arts

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cent

Money

Penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper; two-cent piece three-cent piece, half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B. Anthony dollar.

Double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate; long bit, short bit; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; thousand dollars, grand.

Unimportance

Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent.

Crosswords: Cent

Albanian (cent, penny), Catalan (hundred, one hundred), Czech (cent, penny, quintal), Dutch (cent), Esperanto (hundred, one hundred), French (cent, hundred, one hundred), French Canadian (one hundred), German (cent, penny), Hungarian (cent), Portuguese (cent), Provencal (one hundred), Romanian (cent), Serbo-Croatian (cent), Swedish (cent).

I'd give every cent I've got to be a millionaire (The Opposite Sex; writing credit: Clare Boothe Luce; Fay Kanin)

That guy tosses eight cent stamps around like they were made of paper (Heavenly Days; writing credit: Howard Estabrook)

Ninety per cent of our population are lawyers (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Statistical probability of survival just went up to fifty-three per cent. (Jason X; writing credit: Todd Farmer)

The statistical probability of survival is twelve per cent. (Jason X; writing credit: Todd Farmer)

I try and I try but I can't save a cent (RAISED ON ROBBERY; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

Spent my last cent on the rent, left with pocket lints (Awnaw; performing artist: Nappy Roots)

Les Cent livres des hommes (1969)

Mister Ten Per Cent (1966)

Cent briques et des tuiles (1965)

Cinq cent balles (1963)

Cent pour cent (1957)

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Books

• America's 5 & 10 Cent Stores: The Kress Legacy (reference)

• Facts and Artifacts of Ancient Middle America: A Glossary of Terms and Words Used in the Archaeology and Art History of Pre-Columbian Mexico and cent (reference)

• Heaven Cent (The Xanth Series, 11) (reference)

• The 25 Cent Miracle (reference)

• The Contemporary Parallel New Testament: King James Version, New American Standard Bible, New International Version, New Living Translation, New Cent (reference)

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Periodicals

• Cent Pour Cent Basse Normandie (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Bud & Lou/Groucho 1 Cent Sale (reference)

• Greatest Sports Moments of 20th Cent. (reference)

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Music

• 20th Cent British Music: Bennett (reference)

• 50 Cent/ G-Unit (50 Cent is the Future) [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

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High Tech

• Belkin 2 Pos Cent 36 Parallel Man Box Switch 2 Cent36F IN/1 Cent36F Out (reference)

• Micro Connectors 6Ft IEEE 1284 Bi-Dir A/C DB25M/.050 Cent 36M Cable (reference)

• STD SWITCHING S/W-LIC FOR CENT 50/100 V3.1 (reference)

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On average, FAO statistical area 87 provides around 45 per cent of the World's catch of small pelagic species. Credit: Fisheries.

Plate XXVIII. 104. Rhinoscopelus Coccoi, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From ALBATROS S, in N. Lat. 39, W. Lon. 72. 105. Tarletonbeania tenua, Eigenmann and Eigenmann . From off Point Loma, Calif. 106. Dasyscopelus asper, (Richardson), Goode and Bean. From Richardson, "Voyage of the Erebus and Terror." 107. Electrona Risso i, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From Cent. Coll. of Italian Vertebrata, Florence. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

King crab caught on MILLER FREEMAN. Average weight 6-8 pounds of which about 25 per cent is edible. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was instrumental in helping develop the King Crab industry. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Sounding technique used by Sir James Clark Ross in obtaining first modern deep sea sounding on January 3, 1840 at Latitude 27 26 S and Longitude 17 29 W. The observed depth was 2,425 fathoms. On January 22, 1968, the ESSA Ship DISCOVERER sounded at the same location with a modern echo-sounder and measured 2312 fathoms, less than a 5 per cent error for Ross's observation. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

By Jove, sir -- forty per cent of the army recruits are physically unfit, due to malnutrition. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sinking 1st section Mich. Cent. tunnel, Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Head-and-shoulders statue of Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, 14th cent. B.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California. Saying: "Brother, 'Hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or starve. Brother, 'hits pick seventy-five cent c. Credit: Library of Congress.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cent. Credit: Library of Congress.

For you - they are giving their lives over there--For them - you must give every cent you can spare / Charles W. Bartlett. Credit: Library of Congress.

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A fee of 5 per cent. of the amount in dispute shall be charged in respect of all cases brought before the Tribunal. (reference)

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At Wagram, French, thirteen per cent.

Cent and a half a pound

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Business

In 1996 GDP recovered, rising 5.1 per cent for the year. (references)

The United States accounts for only 3.2 per cent of this amount. (references)

Estimated growth rate of urban population is 2.3 per cent annually. (references)

Economic History

Uk

The UK taxes corporations at between 10 per cent and 30 per cent. (references)

Latvia

Wood and Wood products account for 45 per cent of Latvia's total exports. (references)

Latvia

In 2000, Latvia showed a rather enviable GDP growth rate of 6.2 per cent. (references)

Political Economy

NICARAGUA

Legislation passed in 2000 provides for a 37-cent tax rebate on every exported pound of trawled shrimp and 7 cent rebate on every pound of farmed shrimp exported. (references)

FINLAND

The sole exception was bank interest, on which the tax rate was increased from 20 to 25 percent at the beginning of 1994. The corporate and capital gain income tax rate was increased from 28 per cent to 29 per cent in January 2000. (references)

Trade

Oman

Rather, it finances the components of a project purchased with foreign exchange, which on average is about 40 per cent of the total project cost. (references)

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Expressions using "cent": a hundred per cent ♦ a hundred per cent testing ♦ charge three per cent commission ♦ current annual forest per cent ♦ fifty per cent point ♦ forest per cent ♦ growth per cent ♦ hundred per cent ♦ hundred per cent treaty basis ♦ i don't care a cent ♦ increment per cent ♦ indicating per cent ♦ ninety per cent point ♦ ninety per cent saturation voltage ♦ not worth a cent ♦ one hundred per cent ♦ onehundred per cent ♦ per cent ♦ per cent articulation ♦ per cent completion ♦ per cent defective ♦ per cent difference ♦ per cent load ♦ per cent plating ♦ per cent salt ♦ plant per cent ♦ red cent ♦ seedling per cent ♦ Springfield Cent ♦ tree per cent ♦ utilisation per cent ♦ utilization per cent ♦ wilting per cent. Additional references.

Beginning with "cent": Cent-gardes, cent-owned, cent-plus, cent-wise-dollar-foolish.

Ending with "cent": one-hundred-per-cent, per-cent.

Containing "cent": fifty-cent piece, per-cent-increase, ten-cent coin.

Afrikaans

sent. (various references)

Albanian

cent (penny), qindarkë (cash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سنت, ‏جزء من مائة دولار, ‏السنت. (various references)

Bulgarian 

цент (pence, penny). (various references)

Chinese 

一分錢 (penny), 分. (various references)

Czech

cent (penny, quintal). (various references)

Danish

cent. (various references)

Dutch

cent. (various references)

Esperanto

cendo. (various references)

Faeroese

sent. (various references)

Farsi 

یک صدم (Hundredth), سنت که معادل یک صدم دلارامریکاءی است , درصد (Percent). (various references)

Finnish

sentti. (various references)

French

centime (centime), cent. (various references)

German

cent (penny). (various references)

Greek 

σεντ (penny), εκατοστό του δολαρίου. (various references)

Hebrew 

אחוז (connected, fastened, grasped, per cent, percent, proportion, rate, seized, stricken, taken hold of). (various references)

Hungarian

cent. (various references)

Icelandic

sent. (various references)

Indonesian

sen. (various references)

Irish

ceint (feel, sensation). (various references)

Italian

centesimo (brighter, centesimal, centime, clearer, groat, hundredth, penny). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

仙 (hermit, wizard), センチメートル波 (centimetric wave, send, sentimental, seventeen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�"と (relocation of the capital, transfer of the capital), セント . (various references)

Korean 

센트. (various references)

Manx

sent. (various references)

Papiamen

sèn (money). (various references)

Pig Latin

entcay.(various references)

Portuguese

centavo (centavo, denarius, pence, penny), cêntimo (centime). (various references)

Romanian

cent. (various references)

Russian 

цент. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cent. (various references)

Spanish

centavo (centavo, copper, penny). (various references)

Sranan

sensi (from, since), koprosensi. (various references)

Swedish

cent. (various references)

Turkish

sent (pence, penny), doların yüzde biri. (various references)

Ukrainian

сто (hundred, one hundred), сотня (century, hundred), цент. (various references)

Vietnamese 

phần trăm (per cent). (various references)

centum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cent": centai, cental, centals, centare, centares, centas, centaur, centaurea, centaureas, centauries, centaurs, centaury, centavo, centavos, centenarian, centenarians, centenaries, centenary, centennial, centennially, centennials, center, centerboard, centerboards, centered, centeredness, centerednesses, centerfold, centerfolds, centering, centerless, centerline, centerlines, centerpiece, centerpieces, centers, centeses, centesimal, centesimi, centesimo, centesimos, centesis, centiare, centiares, centigrade, centigram, centigrams, centile, centiles, centiliter, centiliters. (additional references)

Words ending with "cent": abducent, acaulescent, accent, acescent, acquiescent, adducent, adjacent, adolescent, arborescent, ascent, beneficent, bioluminescent, candescent, canescent, chemiluminescent, circumjacent, coalescent, complacent, concent, concrescent, concupiscent, convalescent, crescent, decent, decrescent, dehiscent, deliquescent, demulcent, descent, detumescent, docent, effervescent, efflorescent, electroluminescent, evanescent, excrescent, florescent, fluorescent, frutescent, glabrescent, ignescent, immunofluorescent, incalescent, incandescent, increscent, indecent, indehiscent, innocent, intumescent, iridescent, juvenescent. (additional references)

Words containing "cent": abducentes, accented, accenting, accentless, accentor, accentors, accents, accentual, accentually, accentuate, accentuated, accentuates, accentuating, accentuation, accentuations, acentric, acescents, acquiescently, acrocentric, acrocentrics, adjacently, adolescently, adolescents, amniocenteses, amniocentesis, androcentric, anthropocentric, anthropocentrically, anthropocentricities, anthropocentricity, anthropocentrism, anthropocentrisms, areocentric, ascents, beneficently, bicentenaries, bicentenary, bicentennial, bicentennials, chromocenter, chromocenters, cinquecentist, cinquecentisti, cinquecentists, cinquecento, cinquecentos, circumcenter, circumcenters, cognoscente, cognoscenti, complacently. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: billy, canit, cannt, cantt, Cantv, cayent, ccunt, ceat, ceen, ceit, cen, cena, cend, cendi, cene, ceni, ceno, cens, centa, cente, centi, centr, centu, centy, Cepn, cept, cesn, Cest, cet, cett, ciant, cient, cinct, cint, cinty, clent, cne, Cnen, cnst, cnt, comnt, conti, covnt, cownt, crent, cuenta, cuento, cunit, cutn, Cynth, Cytn, ecant, echt, ecn, ecnu, ent, jent, keent, kente, kentt, ketn, pcnet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: net, ten.

-2 letters: en, et, ne.

+1 letter: cento, cents, centu, conte, enact, scent, tench.

+2 letters: accent, acetin, ascent, cadent, canted, canter, cantle, carnet, catena, cement, cenote, centai, cental, centas, center, centos, centra, centre, centum, cetane, client, cogent, contes, cornet, cretin, cygnet, decant, decent, docent, enacts, enatic, encyst, entice, ethnic, incept, incest, incite, infect, inject, insect, lancet, lectin, lentic, lucent, nectar, nicest, nicety, nocent, noetic, notice, octane, pecten, pectin, recant, recent, scents, secant, stance, stench, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, thence, trance, trench, uncute.