Twelve

[twelv] or [twɛlv]

解释:

(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one.

(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units .

艾玛手打--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.

(n.) The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

(n.) A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.

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解释:

adj. ten and two.—n. the number next after eleven: the figures representing twelve: (pl.) same as duodecimo.—ns. Twelve′-mo same as duodecimo written 12mo; Twelve′-month twelve months: a year.—adjs. Twelve′-penn′y worth a shilling: trifling insignificant; Twelve′score twelve times twenty or two hundred and forty.—n. twelvescore yards a common range in archery used also in measurements.—Twelve-day writ a writ in actions on bills &c. warning defendant to appear within twelve days otherwise judgment would go against him; Twelve Tables the name given to the earliest code of Roman law civil criminal and religious made by the decemvirs in 451-449 B.C.—Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs a work of the 2d century after Christ in which on the model of Jacob's blessing of the tribes in Genesis xlix. discourses and prophecies of Christ are put into the mouths of the fathers of Israel; The Twelve the twelve apostles.

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