dozen

[DozĀ·en]

A dozen is twelve. If you buy a dozen doughnuts for six people, everyone will get to eat two of them.

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A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

Noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

Adjective S.
denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units


pl.
of Dozen

n.
A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

n.
An indefinite small number.


Dozen

Doz"en , n.; pl. Dozen (before another noun), Dozens . [OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal.] 1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends." Shak. 2. An indefinite small number. Milton. A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen.

A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.

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Usage Examples

No memory is ever alone it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

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