cent
part of speech
noun (cent, cents)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cent is a small coin or amount of money; a hundred cents make a dollar or a euro. tree →
2) «Per cent» means out of a hundred: 50 per cent is half. tree →
sense in the lessons
the money the prices are told in: a dollar is 100 cents; money in cents is counted like things; the sign ¢ means cents; phrases: «N cents», «a cent», «per cent», «not a cent»
examples
- A pencil costs 3 cents. tree →
- Anna has 50 cents and spends 20 cents. tree →
- How many cents does Tom have left? tree →
- A dollar is 100 cents. tree →
- I found a 5-cent coin under the sofa. tree →
- Gum costs 75¢. tree →
- 50 per cent of 10 is 5. tree →
- I don't have a cent left! tree →
- And I paid four cents for you. tree →
note
«A dollar is 100 cents.» Money in cents is counted like things. Trap: 100 cents make one dollar, so change cents to dollars before mixing them. Trap: «cent», «scent» (a smell) and «sent» sound the same. In the UK, 100 pence make a pound.
In the corpora
- The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.
- Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor but are home to about a quarter of all sea fish species.
- In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.
- cent ("sahn") means a hundred; a euro cent is called un centime ("sahn-TEEM").
- A penny is worth 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.