twelve

[twelve]

The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

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

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

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


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.


Twelve

Twelve , a. [OE. twelve, twelf, AS. twelf; akin to OFries. twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zw'94lf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. tlf, Sw. tolf, Dan. tolv, Goth. twalif, from the root of E. two + the same element as in the second part of E. eleven. See Two, and Eleven.] One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve-men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. (Rom. Antiq.) See under Table.

Twelve

Twelve, n. 1. The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen. 2. A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii. The Twelve (Script.), the twelve apostles. Matt. xxvi. 20.

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

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

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Usage Examples

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Misspelled Form

twelve, rtwelve, 5twelve, 6twelve, ytwelve, gtwelve, rwelve, 5welve, 6welve, ywelve, gwelve, trwelve, t5welve, t6welve, tywelve, tgwelve, tqwelve, t2welve, t3welve, tewelve, tawelve, tswelve, tqelve, t2elve, t3elve, teelve, taelve, tselve, twqelve, tw2elve, tw3elve, tweelve, twaelve, twselve, twwelve, tw3elve, tw4elve, twrelve, twselve, twdelve, twwlve, tw3lve, tw4lve, twrlve, twslve, twdlve, twewlve, twe3lve, twe4lve, twerlve, tweslve, twedlve, tweklve, tweolve, tweplve, twe:lve, twekve, tweove, twepve, twe:ve, twelkve, twelove, twelpve, twel:ve, twelcve, twelfve, twelgve, twelbve, twel ve, twelce, twelfe, twelge, twelbe, twel e, twelvce, twelvfe, twelvge, twelvbe, twelv e, twelvwe, twelv3e, twelv4e, twelvre, twelvse, twelvde, twelvw, twelv3, twelv4, twelvr, twelvs, twelvd, twelvew, twelve3, twelve4, twelver, twelves, twelved.

Other Usage Examples

Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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