What's the difference between farthing and penny?

Farthing


Definition:

  • (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
  • (n.) A very small quantity or value.
  • (n.) A division of land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
  • (2) valedemoses.com B £ Wellbeing in the raw, North Yorkshire Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: PR The women-only Healthily Happy Retreat, led by raw food expert Dr Claire Maguire at Split Farthing Hall, the 18th-century countryside base of Raw Horizons , mixes a daily 90-minute class of kundalini yoga with two daily 90-minute sessions covering wellbeing coaching, chakra balancing, aromatherapy and healthy chocolate-making.
  • (3) The one at Blists Mill, part of the Ironbridge Gorge world heritage site in Shropshire, lets children pay in Victorian shillings and farthings (which you can get in the bank on arrival).
  • (4) Michael Farthing: 'I celebrate our active student body' Read more “Group work came up time and time again as a problem,” he says.
  • (5) She is being treated by the Queen's current surgeon-gynaecologist, Alan Farthing, and his predecessor, Marcus Setchell.
  • (6) On 5 August 1878, the Bicycle Touring Club – one of Britain's first cycling clubs – was formed inside the pub when a Scotsman called Stanley Cotterell pedalled his penny farthing all the way from Edinburgh to meet like-minded "velocipede enthusiasts" from around the UK.
  • (7) Barrow, who also pressed by another Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, to say whether the UK would pay “a brass farthing” to the EU, replied that a recent Lords committee report asserting there was no legal need to pay any exit fee to the EU was “very helpful and had been noticed in Brussels”.
  • (8) Clearly customers need to take advice, but millennials are not going to take kindly to the authorities using a law that pre-dates the penny-farthing to tell them what they can or can’t do on the streets of Britain”.
  • (9) "Direct response television campaigns such as the one featuring baby Miles in a cot, that clearly and simply state the problem of child abuse and the need for people to donate in a clear and powerful way, have been proven to resonate most with our donors," Farthing says.
  • (10) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
  • (11) But director of fundraising Paul Farthing says the charity has tested a range of approaches and advertising styles for television and its observations are conclusive.
  • (12) Sophie Farthing from the civil rights pressure group Liberty said the recommendations appeared "very strong".
  • (13) Walsh added: "The boys in the band didn't receive a farthing, the Christian Brothers pocketed the money.
  • (14) In 1961, the farthing ceased to be legal tender in the UK.
  • (15) Also in attendance were Marcus Setchell, the Queen's former gynaecologist, who delivered both the Earl and Countess of Wessex's children, and also performed the Duchess of Cornwall's hysterectomy, and Alan Farthing, the current Queen's gynaecologist.
  • (16) The high-wheel bicycle, called the penny-farthing in Britain, had wire spoke tension wheels and proved hugely popular with the Victorians.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cyclists prepare their penny-farthings for the Great Knutsford Penny Farthing Race.
  • (18) The Queen's gynaecologist, who is treating the duchess, is Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered TV presenter Jill Dando.
  • (19) This flow--not taken into consideration so far--may explain caloric nystagmus in weightlessness as well as some difficult problems in caloric excitability on farth.

Penny


Definition:

  • (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
  • (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
  • (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
  • (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
  • (n.) See Denarius.
  • (a.) Worth or costing one penny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (2) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
  • (3) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (4) The penny that has not yet dropped with most of us is that we have arrived at a make-or-break moment: if we are to have any real chance of avoiding dangerous warming, the scientists now agree, global emissions must peak within the next five to 10 years and then begin to fall.
  • (5) Instead, we are investing massively in our UK network, (more than £1bnthis year alone) and creating hundreds of new UK jobs as every penny of our UK profit is invested back into our UK business.
  • (6) Thus did the president's brother become the third biggest shareholder in the country's biggest bank without spending a penny of his own money.
  • (7) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
  • (8) "In ocean races in sailing a handicap prize is awarded as well as a line honours prize to recognise sailing skill rather than simply the newest and most expensive boat," writes Benjamin Penny.
  • (9) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
  • (10) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
  • (11) The 10,000-sq ft gatehouse has a 12-seat cinema and staff quarters, and sits opposite the home of the current commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
  • (12) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
  • (13) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
  • (14) Labor’s Senate leader, Penny Wong, argued it was up to the Senate to act because of the failure of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to act.
  • (15) Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, said there was a "moral imperative" to tackle world poverty which is "firmly in Britain's national interest as he pledged to spend "every penny" of overseas aid effectively (2.13pm).
  • (16) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
  • (17) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
  • (18) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
  • (19) Although I sent several reminders, I never saw a penny or heard from him again.
  • (20) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.

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