Twelve
[twelv] or [twɛlv]
Definition
(noun.) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one.
(adj.) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units .
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Definition
(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.
Typed by Anton
Definition
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.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But the twelve-mile drive? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The twelve strokes sounded, she grew docile, and would meekly lie down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was engaged to breakfast that morning with the Duchess of Beltshire, and at twelve o'clock she asked to be set ashore in the gig. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Don't be afraid, dear, he said good-naturedly; it is but a twelve hours' passage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Isn't it an extraordinary thing of Krook to have appointed twelve o'clock to-night to hand 'em over to me? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Please, sir, there's twelve gentlemen wants to see ye, 'for a purpose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At this point, where my pipe is now resting, a county constable was on duty from twelve to six. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Twelve o'clock; well _now_ we'll see, said she, turning, and opening the door into the passage-way, and standing as if listening. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is not twelve o'clock yet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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