nounApoliticaldivisionof ancient Rome, meeting in theCenturiateAssembly. nounarchaicAhundredthings; a hundred. nouncricketAhundredrunsscoredeither by a singleplayerin oneinnings, or by two players in apartnership. nounUS, cyclingA ride 100 miles in length. ...
in the mid-nineteenth century The structure dates back to the 9th century. By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born. Extra ExamplesTopics Timea1 Oxford Collocations Dictionary (in cricket) a score of 100 runs by one playerTopics Sports: ball and racke...
Cricket.a score of at least 100 runs made by one batsman in a single inning. -century 2 [sen-chuh-ree ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA a combining form ofcentury, affixed to the number that specifies the 100-year span cited, and used only as an adjective: ...
The term “maiden century” is deeply rooted in cricket terminology, combining “maiden,” meaning first or initial, with “century,” denoting a score of 100 runs. In this context, it signifies a player’s first achievement of scoring 100 runs in a single innings. Theories on the Term’s...
3. DSC100 runs scored by one cricket player in an innings 〔一名板球运动员在一局所得的〕一百分 n COLLOCATIONS –Meaning 1 : one of the 100-year periods measured from before or after the year of Christ’s birth adjectives the 18th/19th/20th/21st etc century The movie is set in the...
CRICKET (Sport)In the late nineteenth century, baseball became enshrined as America's national sport. Across American culture, the game became imbued with a series of values and characteristics that seemed redolent of life in the Gilded Age and beyond. This article explores the w...
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.4 And I shall have some peace there,for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer,and noon a purple glow,
In the later chapters on developing fluent readers and writers, we will use examples of these questions to train children to become proficient text users. The text-participant role From a very early age, children are text participants because they learn to make and share meaning of the world...
1 Centuries ago people didn't have much free time, because everyone was working too hard. In Britain in the 19th century, people had more time off, but the Victorians thought relaxing and doing nothing was a sin. So to avoid temptation, they invented football, rugby and cricket. People to...
28.When did the third wave of migration begin in Australia?29.T he name "Canada" is thought of be derived from kanata.Do you know the meaning ofthe Indian word?30.Where is most of Canada's farmland located?31.Do you know the reason why Ireland is called the Emerald Isle?32.What ...