What's the difference between bicentennial and centennial?

Bicentennial


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of two hundred years.
  • (a.) Occurring every two hundred years.
  • (n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a cool spring day in Bicentennial Park in western Sydney .
  • (2) It is the bicentennial anniversary of the introduction of digitalis into medicine.
  • (3) In this Bicentennial year, the author takes a look at the early days of Amercan psychiatry, focusing on some of the great men who helped to form the discipline.
  • (4) Hopefully America's next bicentennial celebration will reveal a more enlightened attitude and concern for emotionally disturbed children.
  • (5) A reappraisal is made of Anton von Rosas and his career, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth.
  • (6) In this bicentennial year, it seems appropriate that each discipline examine its heritage.
  • (7) This is exactly the same work that’s done with any other form of crime, of anti-social behaviour.” Radicalisation is too crucial for experts' work to be hijacked for a headline Read more Back at Bicentennial Park, the treasure hunt has become predictably chaotic.
  • (8) A bicentennial footpath plaque laid by Rolf Harris in his home suburb of Bassendean in Western Australia has been stolen.
  • (9) Although this is our Bicentennial year, effective measures to insure food safety date back less than a century.
  • (10) A hundred years from now, at the bicentennial of the Commissioned Corps, the current Surgeon General would like it to be said that the Public Health Service has had "two centuries of service with distinction."
  • (11) It was William Makepeace Thackeray 's bicentennial last year.
  • (12) Its aims were to determine baseline compliance rates, to identify subpopulations at risk of poor compliance and to evaluate the impact of the bicentennial measles control campaigns on compliance among children under five years.
  • (13) Funds for the planning effort were given to the U.S. as a Bicentennial gift from Norway.
  • (14) Overnight recumbent atrial natriuretic peptide levels were significantly elevated in all ten subjects of the Australian Bicentennial Mount Everest Expedition during the first week at 5400 m, during acclimatization.
  • (15) During this bicentennial year it is worthwhile to review the history of children who have suffered from mental illness during the course of America's movement from a small colony to a major "superpower."
  • (16) It would be malpractice not to.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Clinton joins Hillary and their daughter Chelsea at the Foundry United Methodist church’s Bicentennial Homecoming Celebration in Washington on Sunday.
  • (17) From every comedian here at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we salute him & we say goodbye August 11, 2014 Chris Columbus, director of Mrs Doubtfire and Bicentennial Man, issued a statement about Williams’s death.
  • (18) Uretero-ileocecocysto-urethroplasties have not been successful in our hands, but the other procedures certainly offer a preferable alternative to the treatment modalities in use up to only 4 years before this bicentennial year!
  • (19) (If you're interested, and no one is, their bicentennials are 2003 and 2028).

Centennial


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
  • (a.) Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
  • (a.) Lasting or aged a hundred years.
  • (n.) The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Colorado Rapids Todd Haggerty, Centennial 38 Supporters : Best game: The 'Pids 4-3 victory in Montreal, which included a Tony Cascio sighting.
  • (2) During this centennial of his birth, we acknowledge the important contributions of Dr. Mann.
  • (3) So all they tend to do during their centennial visits is to ask the farmer whether he or she possesses a soil protection booklet.
  • (4) The current centennial celebration of The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston spotlights not only a history of medicine, but a history of Texas as well.
  • (5) The purpose of this paper is to record objectively the contribution of Annals of Surgery to the development of the science of surgery and its application to patient care in commemoration of its Centennial.
  • (6) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
  • (7) Musk made the comments to students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during an interview at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium , talking about computer science, AI, space exploration and the colonisation of Mars.
  • (8) An established population of the eastern North American freshwater snail Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) columella Say is reported from Middle Creek and Centennial Park, Sydney.
  • (9) In the United States, as in the United Kingdom, we've just celebrated the centennial of Father's Day.
  • (10) This is a conference dictated on the occasion of the centennial of the First Chilean Medical Congress, the foundation of the first Public Health Council and the School of Medicine of the University of Chile (1889).
  • (11) As with all development, it is critical that there is a balanced consideration of all impacts of developments on local communities, broader regions and the state.” The regulation repeal could change the dynamics in the assessments of other controversial NSW resource projects, such as Rio Tinto’s Mount Thorley Warkworth mine, Anglo American’s Drayton South mine and Centennial’s Springvale mine.
  • (12) 2.32am GMT Colorado royalty speaks... Todd Haggerty, from the Rapids' Centennial 38 supporters group, also wishes to make a few things clear: Big first thought is the lineup.
  • (13) When approximately 93,000 fans gathered outdoors in Sydney's Centennial Park, a natural reserve, for Australasia's largest ever outdoor rock concert, there was an obvious potential for medical disaster.
  • (14) During discussions of our plans for a year-long centennial observance with members of our House and Senate appropriations subcommittees, congressional members urged us to set two specific objectives: making NIH better known to the American people, and presenting the attractions of the many roles in health-related research to young people who have not yet formulated career plans.
  • (15) At the close of the Centennial Exhibition the collection was purchased by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
  • (16) glycinea transconjugants carrying avrPto elicit a typical hypersensitive resistant response in the soybean cultivar Centennial, suggesting conservation of Pto function between two crop plants, tomato and soybean.
  • (17) We are fast approaching a centennial of New York State's institutional system, the anniversary of the State Care Act of 1980.
  • (18) I have never met Bob Cameron or David Moult of Centennial Coal, for example, but I wonder what drives them?
  • (19) Arapahoe High School is part of the Littleton school district, in the Denver suburb of Centennial.
  • (20) In two years, Europeans will commemorate the centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, and the subsequent "July crisis" that triggered the first world war that August.

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