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DOZEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("dozen" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dozen"):
boxcars ((usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots)
Derivation:
dozen (denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
Synonyms:
12; dozen; twelve; xii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Derivation:
dozen (the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one)
Context examples:
ChemCam found iron, nickel and phosphorus, plus lesser ingredients, in concentrations still being determined through analysis of the spectrum of light produced from dozens of laser pulses at nine spots on the object.
(Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite, NASA)
Using data from over 18,000 patients, scientists have identified more than two dozen genetic risk factors involved in Parkinson’s disease, including six that had not been previously reported.
(NIH scientists find six new genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s, NIH)
The scientists also exposed a dozen healthy mice to skin extracts from two of the CJD patients, and all developed prion disease.
(NIH scientists and collaborators find infectious prion protein in skin of CJD patients, National Institutes of Health)
It was worth more, in some strange way, then a dozen pieces of meat from the hand of a squaw.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Omic experiments often generate lists of dozens or hundreds of genes that differ in expression between samples, raising the question: "What does it all mean biologically?"
(GoMiner, NCI Thesaurus)
In recent years, a few dozen such flares have been discovered, but they are not well understood.
(Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars, NASA)
NASA's Swift, Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer missions, along with dozens of ground-based observatories, including the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS survey, later captured the fading glow of the blast's expanding debris.
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
More work is needed to determine whether some replacement bisphenols might be safer than others, noting that there are dozens of such chemicals now in use.
(Reproductive Problems Reported In Lab Mice after BPA Replacements in Plastics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He had accomplished a distance vastly greater than a bachelorship of arts, or a dozen bachelorships.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then as to the claws upon your feet before and behind, they are so short and tender, that one of our Yahoos would drive a dozen of yours before him.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
