different between hundredweight vs dozen
hundredweight
English
Alternative forms
- cwt. (abbreviation)
Etymology
16th century, from hundred +? weight.
Noun
hundredweight (plural hundredweight or hundredweights)
- (Canada, US) A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg).
- Synonyms: (historical) cental, (rare) centner, short hundredweight, (historical) quintal
- (Britain) A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg).
- Synonyms: long hundredweight, imperial hundredweight
Usage notes
- The short hundredweight is commonly used in the US in the sale of livestock and some cereal grains and oilseeds, paper, and concrete additives and on some commodities in futures exchanges. Since increasing metrication in most English-speaking countries the long hundredweight is now less used.
- The older designation and measure of weight quintal (“hundredweight”) is not standardized; see the usage notes there for more information.
Descendants
- ? Bengali: *??????? (*hôndôrd)
- Bengali: ????? (hôndôr)
See also
- bushel
- quintal
Translations
hundredweight From the web:
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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