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dozer
English
Etymology 1
doze +? -er
Noun
dozer (plural dozers)
- One who dozes.
Translations
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
dozer (plural dozers)
- (informal) A bulldozer.
Derived terms
- tankdozer, tank-dozer, tank dozer
Translations
dozer From the web:
- what dozer was the killdozer
- what dozers take over the bridge
- dozier means
- what does dozer mean
- what size dozer to clear land
- what size dozer to remove stumps
- what are dozer dollars used for
- what are dozers used for
dozen
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)
- 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.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139
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
- Plural form of doos
Anagrams
- zoden, zonde
Scots
Etymology
Related to doze.
Verb
dozen
- (transitive) To stupefy.
- (intransitive) To become stupefied.
dozen From the web:
- = 12
- what dozen mean
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