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Three Hundred


Synonym: Three Hundred

Synonym: ccc (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Three Hundred

English words defined with "three hundred": 300th400cd, Clofffour hundredmassivelyOrchidaceousRubiaceousthree-hundredth, To. (references)
Specialty definitions using "three hundred": Alu family, Alu sequenceBloody Assizes, Breche de RolandCerberusexecutiveFairyHildesheimIshbi-benobJabesh-Gilead, Judah, Kingdom ofpin, ryan, geta, dari, menoji, ronji, seinan, bando, kiwaReal Programmers Don't Use PascalSCIMETARXerxesyear. (references)
Etymologies containing "three hundred": Trecento. (references)

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Modern Usage: Three Hundred

DomainUsage

Screenplays

After what happened to Luther, I don't think I can get more than two, three hundred guys. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Three hundred men's lives I have walked this earth and now I have no time. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years! (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

This stuff costs three hundred dollars a bottle! (If Tomorrow Comes; writing credit: Carmen Culver; Sidney Sheldon)

Do you know what it's like to scream in silence three hundred and sixty five days of the year? (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight)

Lyrics

I don't feel three hundred (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

Movie/TV Titles

Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie (1981)

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Commercial Usage: Three Hundred

DomainTitle

Books

  • On this same ground : voices from three hundred years of Abington Friends School (reference)

  • Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years As Seen in Its Literature (Research and Source Series No. 519) (reference)

  • The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories: Three Hundred Years of Blackfoot History (reference)

  • Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service : Their Part in Making American History from 495 to 1934. Bound with Supplement I, Supplement II, and Supplement II, Concluded. (reference)

  • Three Hundred Years of Gravitation (reference)

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Periodicals

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Photo Album: Three Hundred

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Three hundred Rangers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. , jump from a C-17 aircraft assigned to the 15th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., on Aug. 9, 2001, as the feature activity of a five-day convention. The conventio.

Three hundred miles of developed trails await recreationists visiting Arizona's public lands, this one lies in in the Black Canyon Trail.Credit: Unknown.

Jewelry shops three hundred years ago / AHC [monogram].Credit: Library of Congress.

Weighing a sack of mohair at the Kimble County Wool and Mohair Company warehouse, Junction, Texas. These sacks weigh close to three hundred pounds.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hot Springs federal shelter. One of the five federal camps for homeless men in California. Year ago enrollment three hundred seventy five men, now one hundred fifty seven. Average age fifty; all physically disabled and not capable of manual or project wor.Credit: Library of Congress.

Tremendous barn, sixty by one hundred feet, and windmill on Roy Merriot farm of three hundred twenty acres near Estherville, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress.

August Feck and a load of soybean hay. Feck's three hundred tewnty acre farm near Templeton, Indiana, is owned by an absentee landlord who lives in Florida.Credit: Library of Congress.

Washstand in house occupied by married hired hand and his wife. Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated.Credit: Library of Congress.

Corn crib on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bringing up father. "I would like to borrow three hundred dollars".Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Three Hundred

AuthorQuotation

Jules Renard

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

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Historic Usage: Three Hundred

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The officers, or persons in the position of officers, in the Ministries of War in the different States in Germany and in the Administrations attached to them, must not exceed three hundred in number and are included in the maximum strength of four thousand laid down in the third sub-paragraph of paragraph (1) of this Article. (reference)

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Use in Literature: Three Hundred

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Maternal charitable societies, three hundred livres.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I had the tallow of three hundred cows for greasing my boat, and other uses.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Three Hundred

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Three hundred of them are important consumers of software and IT services. (references)

Through joint ventures, technology transfers and assistance programs with foreign aerospace companies, AIDC has been able to manufacture and assemble a total of more than six hundred military aircraft and over three hundred aircraft engines. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Egyptian Radio transmits 60 hours daily overseas in 33 languages and three hundred hours daily within Egypt. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Nearly three hundred additional companies have established internal quality control regimes over the past year. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

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Speeches: Three Hundred

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Bill Clinton

1993-2001Three hundred thousand of them will have their lives shortened as a result.

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Expression: Three Hundred

Expression using "three hundred": three hundred years old. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Three Hundred

Language Translations for "three hundred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

treqind. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

quimsapataca. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

三百 . (various references)

   

Croatian

  

tristopedeset (three hundred and fifty). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kolmesataa. (various references)

   

French

  

tricentenaire (three hundred years old). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

háromszáz. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

ahsen-tewn'nyawer. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eethray undredhay

   

Portuguese

  

trezentos. (various references)

   

Romany

  

trìnshel. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

триста. (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

makgolotharo. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

trista. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

tricentu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Three Hundred

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 12, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintDiati touto to muron ouk epraqh triakosiwn dhnariwn kai edoqh ptwcoiV
Latin405VulgateQuare hoc unguentum non veniit trecentis denariis et datum est egenis
Old English990West SaxonHwy ne sealde hyo þas sealfe for þremhundreð panega þæt man mihta daelenþarfian.
Middle English1395WyclifSeide, Whi is not this oynement seeld for thre hundrid pens, and is youun to nedi men?
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWhy was not this oyntmet solde for thre hondred pence and geve to the poore?
Jacobean English1611King JamesWhy was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Victorian English1833WebsterWhy was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Basic English1964OgdenWhy was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Three Hundred

LanguageJohn Chapter 12, Verse 5
Cebuano"Ngano nga kining pahumot wala man hinoon ibaligyag tulo ka gatus ka denario, ug ang halin ihatag sa mga kabus?"
Croatian"Zašto se ta pomast nije prodala za trista denara i razdala siromasima?"
Danish"Hvorfor blev denne Salve ikke solgt for tre Hundrede Denarer og given til fattige?"
DutchWaarom is deze zalf niet verkocht voor driehonderd penningen, en den armen gegeven?
Finnish"Miksi ei tätä voidetta myyty kolmeensataan denariin ja niitä annettu köyhille?"
FrenchPourquoi n`a-t-on pas vendu ce parfum trois cent deniers, pour les donner aux pauvres?
GermanWarum ist diese Salbe nicht verkauft um dreihundert Groschen und den Armen gegeben?
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari"Mengapa minyak wangi itu tidak dijual saja dengan harga tiga ratus uang perak, dan uangnya diberikan kepada orang miskin?"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama"Apakah sebabnya minyak ini tiada dijual dengan harga tiga ratus dinar, dan disedekahkan kepada orang miskin?"
Italian«Perché quest'olio profumato non si è venduto per trecento denari per poi darli ai poveri?».
LatvianKâpçc ðo svaidâmo eïïu nepârdeva par trîs simts denârijiem un tos neizdalîja nabagiem?
MaoriHe aha tenei hinu te hokona ai ki nga pene e toru rau, ka hoatu ai ki te hunga rawakore?
NorwegianHvorfor blev ikke denne salve solgt for tre hundre penninger og gitt til de fattige?
PortuguesePor que não se vendeu este bálsamo por trezentos denários e não se deu aos pobres?   
Rumanian,,De ce nu s`a vkndut acest mir cu trei sute de lei, wi sq se fi dat sqracilor?``
RussianдМС ЮЕЗП ВЩ ОЕ РТПДБФШ ЬФП НЙТП ЪБ ФТЙУФБ ДЙОБТЙЕЧ Й ОЕ ТБЪДБФШ ОЙЭЙН?
Shuar"¿Urukamtai nu kunkuinian ti kuitjai surukchama Kuítrinchan Súsatniun?"
Spanish--¿Por qué no fue vendido este perfume por trescientos denarios y dado a los pobres?
Swahili"Kwa nini marashi hayo hayakuuzwa kwa fedha dinari mia tatu, wakapewa maskini?"
Swedish"Varför sålde man icke hellre denna smörjelse för tre hundra silverpenningar* och gav dessa åt de fattiga?"
Uma"Masuli' lia oli-na lana tetu, nte tolu atu doi pera'. Napa-di-hana pai' uma rapobalu' lau, pai' doi-na rawai' -raka tokabu!"

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Three Hundred

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-h-h-n-r-r-t-u"

-2 letters: thereunder, undeterred.

-3 letters: hereunder, hundredth, thundered, thunderer.

-4 letters: deterred, durneder, neutered, rendered, returned, returnee, tendered, tenderer, unheeded.

-5 letters: denture, denuder, detrude, endured, entered, enterer, hundred, reenter, retuned, tenured, terreen, terrene, thunder, trended.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Three Hundred


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 72 65 65      48 75 6E 64 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101000 01110010 01100101 01100101 00100000 01001000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#72 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0072 0065 0065      0048 0075 006E 0064 0072 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5474847171242878070847170

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