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# cent

«cent» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small coin or amount of money; a hundred cents make a…** — 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

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#m1)

2) «Per cent» means out of a hundred: 50 per cent is half. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x1)
- Anna has 50 cents and spends 20 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x2)
- How many cents does Tom have left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x3)
- A dollar is 100 cents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x4)
- I found a 5-cent coin under the sofa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x5)
- Gum costs 75¢. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x6)
- 50 per cent of 10 is 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x7)
- I don't have a cent left! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x8)
- And I paid four cents for you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/13/)
- [Coral reefs cover less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor but are home to about a quarter of all sea fish species.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/4/)
- [In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/4/)
- [cent ("sahn") means a hundred; a euro cent is called un centime ("sahn-TEEM").](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/8-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts/12/)
- [A penny is worth 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/91-counting-coins/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.