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dozen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | 12, twelve, xii |
| Type of | large integer |
| Has types | boxcars |
Examples of dozen
dozen
There were about a dozen people in his team working in high-pressure situations.
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In addition, more than a dozen locker stools bearing Maverick logos were stolen.
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After a few dozen slippery feet I thought better of it, and reversed slowly out.
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This also leaves the hapless McGill struggling to care for half a dozen orphans.
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Haynes, who counts at least a dozen short films among her credits, was thrilled.
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She also was still serving on more than a dozen boards at the time of her death.
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About a dozen years ago, I expanded the hours and the menu to include breakfast.
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It adds up to perhaps two dozen pages, all of them run by the giants of the Web.
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You can hire one of a half-dozen or so luggage forwarders, such as Luggage Free.
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- Twelve: denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
- Twelve: the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
- (dozens) tons: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
- Dozen, common abbreviation doz or dz, is another word for the number twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. ...
- (The dozens) The Dozens is an element of the African American oral tradition in which two competitors, usually males, go head-to-head in a competition of often good-natured insults. ...
- A set of twelve; A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many; An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight
- (Dozens) either the first, second or third dozen non-zero numbers (1-12, 13-24 and 25-36, respectively). If the ball lands in one of the twelve numbers in a dozen, the odds paid are 2-to-1.
- The dozens bet is located right under the numbers in the layout. There are three dozens in the game you can wager on-first, second and third. When you win, the wager pays 2:1.
- The word dozen is a contraction of the Latin Duodecim (two + ten). This root also appears in dodecagon (from duodecagon) and duodenum, the first part of the intestine which is about twelve inches long.
