hundred

«hundred» in Mova's school dictionary: the number 100, ten tens — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

number (a hundred, one hundred, two hundred); noun (hundred, hundreds)

meaning for a pupil

1) A hundred is the number 100, ten tens. A hundred is 100. tree →

2) Hundreds means many, a large number, without an exact count. tree →

3) The hundreds place is the third digit from the right in a whole number. tree →

4) A hundred per cent means all of something, or completely. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, a number word; also a place value (the hundreds digit); 100 cents make a dollar, 100 centimetres make a metre, 100 years make a century. In everyday life: «a hundred times» means very many times. In stories: «hundreds of stars». Phrases: «a hundred», «hundreds of», «one hundred per cent», «the hundreds place», «a hundred and one».

examples

• The school has three hundred pupils. tree →
• A hundred cents make one dollar. tree →
• What digit is in the hundreds place of 452? tree →
• Hundreds of birds flew by. tree →
• There are 100 centimetres in a metre. tree →
• I've told you a hundred times to tidy your room! tree →
• She counted to a hundred during hide and seek. tree →
• He scored a hundred per cent on the spelling test. tree →
• A century is a hundred years. tree →
• 'Two hundred hussars, forward!' cried he. tree →

note

After a number, hundred has no -s: «three hundred», not «three hundreds»; but «hundreds of birds». British English says «a hundred and five», American often «a hundred five». Read «three hundred» as 300. Trap: «hundreds of» without a number means «many», not an exact amount; «the hundreds place» asks for a digit, not the value (in 452 the digit is 4, the value is 400).

In the corpora

• Documentary shows about real hospitals film real patients who agreed; they show the exciting moments chosen from hundreds of hours.
• A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all.
• A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.
• Zoo kitchens prepare hundreds of meals a day, and nutritionists plan the right mix of food for each kind of animal.
• When researchers sprayed a harmless mist into single canopy trees, beetles of hundreds of kinds fell out, many never named.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hundred» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.