different between dozen vs kilo

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.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ki?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kilo?/
• Hyphenation: ki?lo
• Rhymes: -i?l??

Noun

kilo (plural kilos)

1. Clipping of kilogram.

Translations

See also

• kilo-

Anagrams

• Ilok, Loki

Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish kilo.

Noun

kilo

1. kilo(gram)

Czech

Etymology

Clipping of kilogram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?lo]
• Hyphenation: ki?lo

Noun

kilo n

1. kilo, short for kilogram
2. (informal) a hundred crowns (Czech currency)

Declension

Synonyms

• (hundred crowns): stovka f

Derived terms

• p?tikilo n

See also

• litr m
• tác m
• b?r m
• pade f
• p?tka f
• ka?ka f

Further reading

• kilo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• kilo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

kilo c (plural kilo's, diminutive kilootje n)

1. Abbreviation of kilogram.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kilo/, [?kilo?]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: ki?lo

Etymology 1

Clipping of kilogramma (“kilogram”)

Noun

kilo

1. kilogram, kilo

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Probably from kileä? Cognate with Karelian kilo.

Noun

kilo

1. (rare) shine

Declension

Derived terms

• auringonkilo

Related terms

• kilottaa

Anagrams

• Koli, loki, olki

French

Etymology

From the prefix kilo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.lo/

Noun

kilo m (plural kilos)

1. kilo

Further reading

• “kilo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Karao

Noun

kilo

1. kilogram

Latvian

Noun

kilo m (invariable)

1. alternative form of kilograms

Norman

Noun

kilo m (plural kilos)

1. (Jersey) kilo

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?k?ilo/

Noun

kilo

1. kilo, kilogramme

   Synonym: kilográm?má

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• gilo

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khílioi), via French kilo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çi?lu/, [?çi?.l?]

Noun

kilo m (definite singular kiloen, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloene)

kilo n (definite singular kiloet, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloa or kiloene)

1. a kilo (1000 grammes)
2. kilo (letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet, usually spoken rather than written)

Synonyms

• kilogram

References

• “kilo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khílioi), via French kilo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çi?lu/, [?çi?.l?]

Noun

kilo m (definite singular kiloen, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloa)

kilo n (definite singular kiloet, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloa)

1. a kilo (1000 grammes)
2. kilo (letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet)

Synonyms

• kilogram

References

• “kilo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?i.l?/

Noun

kilo n (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) kilogram
2. (colloquial, rare) Any other unit whose name starts with kilo-, like the kilometre.

Romani

Noun

kilo m (plural kile)

1. stake

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kilo (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of kila

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ki??/

Noun

kilo m (genitive singular kila, nominative plural kilá, genitive plural kíl, declension pattern of mesto)

1. kilo, short for kilogram

Declension

Derived terms

• kilový
• kile?ko

Further reading

• kilo in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Noun

kilo

1. accusative/instrumental singular of kila

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of kilogramo.

Noun

kilo m (plural kilos)

1. kilo (kilogram)

   Synonyms: kilogramo, quilo, quilogramo

2. the letter K in the Spanish spelling alphabet
3. (dated, Spain) a million pesetas
4. (Spain) a million euros

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kilo.

Pronunciation

Noun

kilo (n class, plural kilo) or kilo (ki-vi class, plural vilo)

1. kilogram

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?l?/, (now chiefly regional) /?ki?l?/

Noun

kilo n

1. kilo, short form of kilogram (unit of mass equal to 1000 grams)

Declension

See also

• kilo-

Anagrams

• olik

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiluq (cf. Ilocano nakillo (“winding; twisted; broken (of language)”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ki?lô
• IPA^(key): /ki?lo?/, [kx??lo?]

Adjective

kilô

1. bent; crooked

   Synonym: buktot

2. curved

Alternative forms

• quilo (obsolete, Abecedario orthography)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Spanish kilo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ki?lo
• IPA^(key): /?kilo/, [?kx?lo]

Noun

kilo

1. kilo, short form of kilogram (unit of mass equal to 1000 grams)

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (kiló).

Noun

kilo

1. kilogram, kilo

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika