Wednesday 30 March 2011

Miscellaneous Vocabulary


One      
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fouteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Twenty-three
Twenty-four
Twenty-fivr
Twenty-six
Twenty-seven
Twenty-eight
Twenty-nine
Thirty
Forty
Fifty
Sixty
Seventy
Eighty
Ninety
Hundred
Thousend
Million
Billion
Ten thousend
Hundred thousend
Ten million
Hundred Million
100                                         A hundred

1000                                       A thousend
100,000                 A hundred thousend
1,000,000                             A million
100,000,000                        A hundred million
1,000,000,000                     A billion

½                                             A half/ One half
1/3                                         A third/ One third
¼                                             A quarter/ one quarter/ one fourth
1/5                                         A / One fifth
1/10                                       A / One tenth
¾                                            Three quarters/ Three fourths
3/5                                         Three fifths
0.2                                          Nought point two / zero point two
2.35                                        Two point three five
Some Symbol Meanings
©            Copyright symbol
®             Registered trademark
TM         Trademark symbol
X             Cross
              Ditto
              Tick
&            Ampersand, and
/              Slash, stroke
$              Dollar
+             Plus
X             Times
÷             Divided by
˚              Degrees
               Feet
@           at
               *              Asterisk, star
                …..          Dots, ellipsis
                £              Pound
-          Minus
                =             Equals
                              Inches
                .               Point
                %            Percent
Imperial Units
1 inch                    2.5 cm ; (inch = in.)
1 foot                    30 cm ; (foot = ft.)
1 yard                    90 cm ; (yard = yd.)
1 mile                   1760 yards, 1.609 kilometers
5 miles                 8 kilometers
1 furlong              220 yards, 201 meters
11 sq. ft.               1 sq. meter

5 acres                  2 hectares
1 sq. mile            2 sq. km.
1 ounce                                28 gm. (ounce = oz.)
1 ponud               450 gm. (pound = lb.)
2.2 pounds          1 kilogram (kg.)
1 stone                 6.4 kg. (=14 pounds) ; (stone =st.)
Hundredweight                               (in Britain ) 112 pounds) (in the US) 100 pounds (hundredweight = cwt.)
1 tonne                                1000 kilograms
1 ton                      1) 1016 kg.(= long ton) 2) 907 kg. (= short ton) 3) 1000 kg. (=metric ton)
1 pint                    (In Britain ) 0.6 litre, (in the US) 0.5 litre ; (pint = pt.)(point)
1 quart                  (In Britain) 1.14 litres (in the US ) 0.95 litres ; (quart = qt.)
1 gallon                                (In Britain ) 4.5 litres, (in the US ) 3.8 litres; (gallon = gal.)
1 bushel               (In Britain) 36.4 litres (in the US) 35.2 litres
2 pints                  = 1 quart ; 4 quarts = 1 gallon ; 1 gallon = 8 pints.

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