CENTO

Definition: CENTO

CENTO

Noun

1. A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Cento \Cen"to\, noun; plural Centos. [Latin expression cento garment of several pieces sewed together, patchwork, poem made up of various verses of another poem.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: CENTO

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cento Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Ausonius has a nuptial idyll composed from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.) The best known are the Homerocentones (3 syl.), the Cento Virgilianus by Proba Falconia (4th century), and the Cento Nuptiälis of Ausonius. Metellus made hymns out of the Odes of Horace by this sort of patchwork. Of modern centos, the Comédie des Comédies, made up of extracts from Balzac, is pretty well known. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Central Treaty Organization

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Central Treaty Organization (also referred to as CENTO, the Middle East Treaty Organization or (METO), or the Baghdad Pact) was adopted in 1954 by Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Modeled after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization it committed the nations to mutual cooperation and protection, as well as non-intervention in each other's affairs. It was designed in part to contain the Soviet Union. It lasted nominally until the Iranian revolution of 1979, however had shown strains in 1965 and 1971 when Pakistan tried unsuccessfully to get assistance in its wars with India.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Central Treaty Organization."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CENTO

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CENTO	English	Central Treaty Organisation	Law, International Organizations
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: CENTO

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poetry	Poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CENTO

English words defined with "CENTO": Centonism, Centos. (references)

Non-English Usage: "CENTO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (a hundred, hundred, one, one hundred), Portuguese (hundred).

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Modern Usage: CENTO

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Una Pistola per cento croci (1971)

I Cento cavalieri (1964)

Cinque marines per cento ragazze (1962)

Il Cavaliere dei cento volti (1960)

Cento serenate (1954)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CENTO

Domain	Title
Books	Anfänge des Generalbass-Satzes : die Cento concerti ecclesiastici (1602) von Lodovico Viadana (reference) Cento anni : Accademia della guardia di finanza (reference) Cento Anni Di Storia Delle Bocce Nel Lodigiano (reference) Cento Citta: A Guide to the "Hundred Cities & Towns" of Italy (reference) Cento legature romantiche piemontesi : legature del periodo romantico in raccolte private (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CENTO

"CENTO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "CENTO" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	64.29%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	35.71%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CENTO

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cento	18
cento i passi	8
cento vetrine	7
cassa cento risparmio	6
cem cento por video	4
cento poem	4
lambretta cento	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CENTO

Derivations
	Words beginning with "CENTO": centones, centos. (additional references)
	Words ending with "CENTO": cinquecento, duecento, quattrocento, seicento, trecento. (additional references)
	Words containing "CENTO": accentor, accentors, cinquecentos, duecentos, precentor, precentorial, precentors, precentorship, precentorships, quattrocentos, seicentos, trecentos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"CENTO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantoo, cantop, cendi, ceno, cenote, centa, cente, centi, centor, centr, centro, centu, centy, Certo, cesto, Ceuto, Chendo, Cinto, conti, contio, conto, contu, cuenta, cuento, cunto, Ec-nato, Gento, kente, Sento, vento, wento. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CENTO"

Words rhyming with "CENTO" (pronounced 'Cen"to'): Agitato, Allegretto, Anito, Araguato, Arnatto, Assiento, Avigato, Ayuntamiento, Bassetto, Basto, Braziletto, Busto, Canoncito, Canto, Carapato, Castrato, Cavetto, Cinquecento, Concerto, Concetto, Contrafagetto, Cornuto, Corvetto, Couranto, Devoto, Ferretto, Flauto, Fugato, Giusto, graffito, grotto, gusto, impasto, inamorato, junto, larghetto, legato, lento, libretto, lotto, manifesto, Manto, Marcato, memento, Misurato, moderato, molto, mosquito, Moto, Motto. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CENTO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: conte.
	Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-t"
	-1 letter: cent, cone, cote, note, once, tone.
	-2 letters: con, cot, eon, net, not, one, ten, toe, ton.
	-3 letters: en, et, ne, no, oe, on, to.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: cenote, centos, cogent, contes, cornet, docent, nocent, noetic, notice, octane.
	+2 letters: acetone, aconite, cenotes, centavo, centimo, cholent, coagent, coenact, cognate, cointer, comment, conceit, concent, concept, concert, confect, confute, congest, connate, connect, connote, consent, contemn, contend, content, contest, context, contuse, convect, convent, convert, coontie, cornets, cornute, coronet, counted, counter, crownet, ctenoid, deontic, docents, ecotone, enactor, entopic, exciton, jaconet, kenotic, ketonic, lactone, lection, nepotic, noctule, notched, notcher, notches, noticed, noticer, notices, octanes, potence, potency, recount, section, tacnode, tonemic, tonetic, trounce.
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