different between dizen vs dozen

English

Alternative forms

• disen, dysyn, dizzen

Etymology

From dialectal dize (“to put tow on a distaff”), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disan? (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize +? -en. Cognate with Middle Low German dise, disene (“distaff”). More at dize.

Verb

dizen (third-person singular simple present dizens, present participle dizening, simple past and past participle dizened)

1. (transitive) To dress with flax for spinning.
2. (transitive) To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To dress showily; adorn; dress out.

Derived terms

• bedizen

Spanish

Verb

dizen

1. Archaic spelling of dicen.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?zen/
• Hyphenation: di?zen

Noun

dizen

1. second-person singular possessive of dize

West Frisian

Noun

dizen

1. plural of dize

English

Etymology

From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?n/
• Rhymes: -?z?n

Noun

dozen (plural dozens or dozen)

1. A set of twelve.

   Can I have a dozen eggs, please?

   I ordered two dozen doughnuts.

   There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.

   Pack the shirts in dozens, please.

2. (as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

   There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.

   There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
3. (metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139

     The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Synonyms

• (followed by of: a large number of): a great deal of, a lot of, heaps of, hundreds of, loads of, lots of, many, millions of, scores of, scads of, thousands of

Antonyms

• (followed by of: a large number of): few

Abbreviations

• doz

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• gross

Anagrams

• Donze, zendo, zoned

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?z?n

Noun

dozen

1. Plural form of doos

Anagrams

• zoden, zonde

Scots

Etymology

Related to doze.

Verb

dozen

1. (transitive) To stupefy.
2. (intransitive) To become stupefied.