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thousand

/thou-zuhnd/US // ˈθaʊ zənd //UK // (ˈθaʊzənd) //

千人,千,千个,千名

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural thou·sands, thou·sand.

    • : a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 1000 or M.
    • : thousands. the numbers between 1000 and 999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: Property damage was in the thousands.
    • : a great number or amount.
    • : Also thousand's place . the position of the fourth digit to the left of the decimal point. the position of the fourth digit from the right.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to 1000 in number.

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Examples

  • This third-party delivery ecosystem has caused death by a thousand cuts for restaurants for the past two decades.

  • There are all of these hundreds of thousands or millions of posts that might not get that many interactions but collectively make up a lot of misinformation.

  • Then an unexpectedly large wave basically broke on me, and the wall of water felt as if a thousand tiny needles had been shot into my face.

  • Remember, though, that it will be supporting your upper half for thousands of hours, so it’s worth investing a little time and energy into choosing the right one.

  • Two-hundred forty-five thousand, when you’re still more than 9 million in the hole.

  • Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.

  • It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.

  • Neither could her three-week, multi-thousand dollar stay, which was supposed to be a recovery period.

  • One person who dialed in has “a pretty big Twitter following,” Goff said, “several thousand.”

  • Two years into an Arctic expedition, they were forced to abandon ship a thousand miles north of Siberia.

  • It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.

  • The garrison of the town and fortress was nearly three thousand strong.

  • There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.

  • And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.

  • Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.