What's the difference between cent and ninepence?

Cent


Definition:

  • (n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
  • (n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
  • (n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
  • (3) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (4) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (5) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
  • (6) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
  • (7) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (8) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
  • (9) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
  • (10) Eighty-five per cent of the patients had been on beta-blocker treatment for more than 1 year.
  • (11) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
  • (12) We studied the effect of a 2-hour exposure to 0.6 ppm of ozone on bronchial reactivity in 8 healthy, nonsmoking subjects by measuring the increase in airway resistance (Raw) produced by inhalation of histamine diphosphate aerosol (1.6 per cent, 10 breaths).
  • (13) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
  • (14) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
  • (15) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
  • (16) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
  • (17) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
  • (18) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
  • (19) It was found that the initial rate of [14C]oxalate absorption is rapid (6.5 per cent per min), and that after 5 min the rate of absorption decreases to about 0.6 per cent per min.
  • (20) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).

Ninepence


Definition:

  • (n.) An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
  • (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A nonindustrial noise exposed population (NINEP) describing age effects for white males and females has been established that can be used as a reference in evaluating an industrial noise exposed population (INEP) data base.
  • (2) Since there presently does not exist an equivalent black NINEP, it is necessary to first isolate the data representing the black population from the industrial sample.
  • (3) Mean hearing threshold levels (HTLs) for 59 musicians were better than those for an unscreened nonindustral noise-exposed population (NINEP), and only slightly worse than the 0.50 fractile data for the ISO 7029 (1984) screened presbycusis population.
  • (4) Therefore, this variation must be considered when attempting to compare the industrial audiometric test data with the white NINEP data base presented herein.

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