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101
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English
2025 February 27
+ (number)
Etymology 1
From en mul 1 mul 0 mul 1, from the method of numbering courses in United States colleges, the initial or introductory course commonly being numbered “101”; for example, “Biology 101”.adj 1006094113 July 2023 1; adj 1
Pronunciation
en /ˌwʌnəʊˈwʌn/ RP
en /ˌwʌnˌoʊˈwʌn/ GA
en En-us-101.ogg GA
en ʌn 3
Adjective
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en Canada US alone or postpositive chiefly humorous Of a fact, subject, etc.: basic, beginner-level, elementary.
en Geology 101 tells us that you can’t build a reservoir on sandstone.
en My dog flunked out of Crate Training 101.
en 1964 March (date recorded) w:Woody Allen Private Life Woody Allen CP 518 https://web.archive.org/web/20250117203546/http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/allen.htm#Private New York, N.Y. w:Colpix Records July 1964 15860789 I went to NYU myself, I was a philo-major there, too. I took all the abstract philosophy courses in college, like truth and beauty, advanced truth and beauty, intermediate truth, introduction to God, Death 101.
6 November 1972 Gerald Clarke Show Business: Viewpoints: The Rookies. ABC. Monday, 8–9 p.m. E.S.T. https://web.archive.org/web/20110129051600/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,942627,00.html Since this is a series that emphasizes Social Relevance 101—a basic course on TV these days—the hood in that episode is just a good ghetto boy who has been led astray, and the cop is good old Paddy on the beat.
en 2003 w:Daniel Dor When Relativism Becomes a Marketing Strategy: Globalization, Knowledge and the World Language System CPS Books Andrea Krizsán; Violetta Zentai Reshaping Globalization: Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives Budapest, Hungary; New York, N.Y. Central European University Press part I (Production of Global Knowledge) 66 https://archive.org/details/reshapingglobali0000unse/page/66/mode/1up 978-963-9241-63-3 1587-6942 Companies sell directories, databases, reports, translation services, automatic translation software—and guidebooks for doing business away from home, which, in some cases, look much like simplified textbooks for Anthropology 101.
en 22 June 2003 Holly Henderson; w:Liz Tigelaar w:Jennifer Hale Samantha (“Sam”) Ski Trip w:Totally Spies! 2 21 w:Teletoon Montreal, Que. w:Marathon Media 811406458 Ugh! Crash and burn! Next year, I’m taking flirting 101! I am so not good at this!
en 1 November 2009 w:Bob Schieffer Face the Nation: A Class in Nation-building 101 w:CBS News https://web.archive.org/web/20250124002343/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-class-in-nation-building-101/ A Class in Nation-Building 101 title As the President tries to develop a new strategy in Afghanistan, I wonder if this is the real lesson that we've learned in Afghanistan so far: that nation-building, like charity, probably begins at home.
en 12 September 2017 w:Norm Macdonald w:Norm Macdonald Live 3 11 I'm taking a fascinating class all about the Hollywood Freeway. It's called 101: 101.
en 20 March 2023 Rebecca Gillam; Bridie Wilkins Alexandra Daddario and Her PT on How She Built Her Baywatch Bod + Her 10 Regular Workout Rules Liz Plosser Women’s Health https://web.archive.org/web/20230621161528/https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/fitness/a39462034/alexandra-daddario-workout/ New York, N.Y. Hearst Magazine Media 0884-7355 1102801076 However much you work out, but especially if it's a lot, learning correct form and focusing on keeping your body safe is 101—not just while exercising, but also how you move around day to day.
Usage notes
The word is used humorously or sarcastically with subjects, etc., that would usually never form the title of actual college courses.
Translations
of a fact, subject, etc.: basic, beginner-level, elementary basic elementary
Czech: cs úvodní, cs začátečnický m, cs základní
Dutch: nl les één f
Esperanto: eo enkonduka, eo baza
Finnish: fi alkeet p, fi alkeis-
French: fr élémentaire, fr abc m l'abc de, fr b.a.-ba m le b.a.-ba de, fr base f-p les bases de
German: de Einführung, de Einmaleins n, de für Anfänger
Hungarian: hu alapjai, hu bevezető, hu egyszeregy, hu kezdőknek
Japanese: ja 入門 にゅうもん, nyūmon
Polish: pl abc, pl od początku, pl początkujący m, pl podstawy f-p
Russian: ru основы f-p, ru для чайников p m
Spanish: es introducción a …
Swedish: sv abc c n noun
Vietnamese: vi nhập môn
Noun
en informal An introduction to a topic; a rundown of its basics.
en I need you to give me a quick 101 on how you assemble the WIP reports.
en 1999 Ms. O'Connor New Jersey Advisory Council on Elder Care Council Meeting of New Jersey Advisory Council on Elder Care. Testimony Concerning Health Care and Caregiving for the Elderly: Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Piscataway, New Jersey, February 10, 1999, 1:00 P.M. New Jersey Office of Legislative Services, Public Information Office, Hearing Unit 25 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Council_Meeting_of_New_Jersey_Advisory_C/99KQOjH-UPcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22a+quick+101%22&dq=%22a+quick+101%22&printsec=frontcover quite well. (laughter) MS. O'CONNOR: I'm going to give you a quick 101 [on] cost and care management, and then I'm going to plug New Jersey EASE, always plug New Jersey EASE [Easy Access Single Entry, a program to help people find health care resources].
en 2012 Dorothy Meng Helena Bender Introduction Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World Cambridge University Press 9 9781107688667 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reshaping_Environments/4i8yIvtk734C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22a%20quick%20101%22&pg=PA9&printsec=frontcover This is also the reason why 'Reshaping Environments' teaches you so many different styles of thinking or 'looking at the problem' throughout the course. It is why gaining an understanding of scale, interdisciplinary and systems thinking is important to understand within the course, because what they are really giving you is a different way to look at the same thing. So here is a quick 101, which I thought helped me with the different styles of thinking, and I hope you find them useful.
en 2015 Pai Roopa Roopa Pai The Gita For Children Hachette India 9789351950134 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gita_For_Children/ZWKOCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22a%20quick%20101%22&pg=PT127&printsec=frontcover Hindu mythology is bursting at the seams with fabulous beasts and birds that are extraordinary versions of beasts and birds on earth. Unlike in western mythology, where many such fantastic creatures are considered 'evil', or at least a nuisance — dragons, for example, imprison princesses in towers, breathe fire and have to be destroyed by the hero of the story — there are no inherently 'evil' creatures in Hindu mythology. Here's a quick 101 on four fantastic beasts that Krishna mentions in this chapter of the Gita.
Etymology 2
A variant of en one hundred and one.
Pronunciation
en /ə ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/ /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/ RP
en /ə ˌhʌndɹəd n̩ ˈwʌn/ /ˌwʌn ˌhʌndɹəd (n̩) ˈwʌn/ GA
Determiner
det
en idiomatic en one hundred and one a great many; numerous.
en 1996 w:Samela Harris Introduction On a Shoestring: Recipes from the House of the Raising Sons vii Kent Town, Adelaide, S.A. Wakefield Press 978-1-86254-388-1 [T]o offset the massive cost of learning 101 ways to embellish spatchcock, perhaps the readers may need 101 ways to cook two-minute noodles.
Usage notes
Often used to refer to the size of an exhaustively long and varied list of applications, examples, uses, etc.
References
Further reading
101 (number)
course (education)#US course numbering system course (education) – US course numbering system
101 (disambiguation)
6 September 2006 Daniel Engber 101 101: How did Intro Classes Get Their Trademark Number? Slate https://web.archive.org/web/20241228225635/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/09/why-are-introductory-classes-called-101.html New York, N.Y. w:The Slate Group 1090-6584 610473650.
Anagrams
en 011 110% 110
en heteronyms
Turkish
tr:A+
tr:Okey +
Pronunciation
tr /jyz ˈbiɾ/
tr yüz bir
Noun
101'i 101'ler
tr colloquial tr A101, a retail company
tr okey 101, a variant of okey
tr October 30, 2021 Mhmt_erdgn_ 1454497859592675333 January 5, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230105134314/https://twitter.com/Mhmt_erdgn_/status/1454497859592675333 Ders çalışıyorum arkadaşlarım 101’e çağırıyor hadi gel de gitme Here I am studying and my friends are inviting me over for a game of 101 how am I supposed to resist that?
tr Games