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单词 quintal
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Definition of quintal in English:

quintal

noun ˈkwɪnt(ə)lˈkwin(t)l
  • 1A unit of weight equal to a hundredweight (112 lb) or, formerly, 100 lb.

    英担(英制重量单位,等于现在的112磅或原来的100磅)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This year he got eight quintals of areca from his garden, which he sold for Rs.50,000, but even that was not enough to fulfil his interest commitments to the society.
    • In the last three years, the average yield went up from five quintals a hectare to 12 quintals.
    • He says the university has made considerable progress in providing quality seeds to farmers, with the production going up from 2,500 quintals four years ago to 20,000 quintals now.
    • Cottonseeds treated with this would yield 20 quintals per acre, a quantity farmers do not dream of even with the best of the BT-Cotton seeds.
    • An Indian authority cited four and a half quintal (four hundredweight) of wood for an open-air cremation.
    • The recent harvest fetched one tonne per hectare in the irrigated areas and 7.5 quintal per hectare in rain-fed areas.
    • Due to decrease in the area under cane crop the mill may possibly receive only six lakh quintals of sugarcane this season, whereas in 2000-01 the mill got 36 lakh quintals.
    • To thresh one quintal of grain from the sheaves would otherwise cost Rs 100.
    • ‘We get about five to six quintals per acre of jowar which lasts for six months,’ he says.
    • Each supply slip entitles a farmer to deliver 42 quintals of cane.
    • In the Parisian basin, the average output was 15 quintals per hectare, but in the rest of the kingdom it stood at only 8 to 12.
    • I never said that I expected 15 quintals per acre.
    • In 1861 not one person reported producing any quintals offish.
    • In the process, they are making huge profits at the cost of the human health because the damaged wheat has been sold between Rs 120 and Rs 400 per quintal while the fresh wheat is ruling at Rs 750 per quintal in the open market these days.
    • Farmers like him prefer to grow hill cotton as it gets them good money, up to Rs.2,800 a quintal, and the expenses and effort are low as compared to chillies, for instance, which cost Rs.5,000 per acre to produce.
    1. 1.1 A unit of weight equal to 100 kg.
      公担(公制重量单位,等于100公斤)

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic qinṭār, based on Latin centenarius 'containing a hundred'.

Rhymes

lintel, pintle

Definition of quintal in US English:

quintal

nounˈkwin(t)l
  • 1A unit of weight equal to a hundredweight (112 lb) or, formerly, 100 lb.

    英担(英制重量单位,等于现在的112磅或原来的100磅)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the Parisian basin, the average output was 15 quintals per hectare, but in the rest of the kingdom it stood at only 8 to 12.
    • An Indian authority cited four and a half quintal (four hundredweight) of wood for an open-air cremation.
    • The recent harvest fetched one tonne per hectare in the irrigated areas and 7.5 quintal per hectare in rain-fed areas.
    • Due to decrease in the area under cane crop the mill may possibly receive only six lakh quintals of sugarcane this season, whereas in 2000-01 the mill got 36 lakh quintals.
    • He says the university has made considerable progress in providing quality seeds to farmers, with the production going up from 2,500 quintals four years ago to 20,000 quintals now.
    • To thresh one quintal of grain from the sheaves would otherwise cost Rs 100.
    • In 1861 not one person reported producing any quintals offish.
    • Each supply slip entitles a farmer to deliver 42 quintals of cane.
    • Cottonseeds treated with this would yield 20 quintals per acre, a quantity farmers do not dream of even with the best of the BT-Cotton seeds.
    • Farmers like him prefer to grow hill cotton as it gets them good money, up to Rs.2,800 a quintal, and the expenses and effort are low as compared to chillies, for instance, which cost Rs.5,000 per acre to produce.
    • This year he got eight quintals of areca from his garden, which he sold for Rs.50,000, but even that was not enough to fulfil his interest commitments to the society.
    • In the process, they are making huge profits at the cost of the human health because the damaged wheat has been sold between Rs 120 and Rs 400 per quintal while the fresh wheat is ruling at Rs 750 per quintal in the open market these days.
    • ‘We get about five to six quintals per acre of jowar which lasts for six months,’ he says.
    • I never said that I expected 15 quintals per acre.
    • In the last three years, the average yield went up from five quintals a hectare to 12 quintals.
    1. 1.1 A unit of weight equal to 100 kg.
      公担(公制重量单位,等于100公斤)

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic qinṭār, based on Latin centenarius ‘containing a hundred’.

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