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twelve (iou)



twelve adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).

A. adjective. One more than eleven (a cardinal numeral represented by 12 in Arabic numerals, xii, XII in roman). OE.
the Twelve Tables: see TABLE noun. twelve good men and true arch. & joc. the twelve members of a jury. Twelve Tribes the twelve tribes of ancient Israel.
Day Lewis My father remarried some twelve years later. P. Fitzgerald Lodgings and laundry cost him twelve shillings and fivepence a week. R. M. Wilson Twelve cigarettes left.
b. noun.
Twelve persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, points, runs, etc., in a game, chances (in giving odds), minutes, inches, shillings (now Hist.), pence, etc. OE.
the Twelve the twelve apostles.
Bible (AV): 2 Samuel 2:15 Twelue of the seruants of Dauid. Ld Macaulay Manlius, eldest of the Twelve Who kept the Golden Shield. L. W. Meynell Baa-Lamb came Home..at the very agreeable odds of twelve to one. Japan Times Twelve survived, but none of the cases involved blood clots.
One more than eleven as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (12 in Arabic numerals, xii, XII in roman). OE.
Oxford English Dictionary Five twelves make sixty.
The time of day at midnight or midday (on a clock, watch, etc., indicated by the numeral twelve displayed or pointed to). Also twelve o'clock. LME.
twelve noon: see NOON noun 2.
M. E. Braddon The clock struck twelve. E. Bowen It was twenty to twelve: extraordinary how one's mornings went!
The twelfth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated twelve, (usu. number twelve, or with specification, as book twelve, chapter twelve, etc.); a size etc. denoted by twelve, a shoe, garment, etc., of such a size, (also size twelve). E16.
J. Raz This use of 'moral' is compatible with the one described in Chapter Twelve.
A set of twelve; a thing having a set of twelve as an essential or distinguishing feature; spec. (a) in pl., twelve leaves to the sheet in a printed book; (b) an engine or motor vehicle with twelve cylinders. L16.
long twelves: see LONG adjective1.
Each of a set of twelve; spec. (a) a plant-pot of which twelve are formed from a cast of clay; (b) a candle of which twelve constitute a pound in weight. E19.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals with multiples of a hundred, as 712 (read seven hundred and twelve, US also seven hundred twelve) etc. In dates used for one thousand two hundred, as 1260 (read twelve sixty), twelve-nineties, etc. With nouns + -ER1 forming nouns with the sense 'something (identified contextually) being of or having twelve s', as twelve-seater etc. Special combs., as twelve-bore a shotgun with a bore corresponding to the diameter of a round bullet of which twelve constitute a pound in weight; twelve-gauge US = twelve-bore above; twelve-inch a gramophone record twelve inches in diameter and played at 45 rpm; twelvemonth arch. a period of twelve months, a year; this time twelvemonth, a year from now; twelvemonthly adverb (arch.) every twelve months, yearly, annually; twelve-note, twelve-tone adjectives (Music) using the twelve notes of the chromatic scale on an equal basis without dependence on a key system; twelvepence (a) twelve pence, esp. of the old British currency before decimalization; (b) a coin of this value, a shilling; twelvepenny adjective & noun (a) adjective worth or costing twelve pence; paying or receiving twelve pence; (b) noun (chiefly Scot.) = twelvepence (b) above; twelve-pounder a gun throwing a shot that weighs twelve pounds; twelve-step program, twelve steps a programme (containing twelve stages) designed by Alcoholics Anonymous to help people recover from alcoholism; any similar programme designed to help people recover from Addiction; twelve-tone: see twelve-note above; twelve-toner Music a composer employing the twelve-tone technique.
twelvefold adjective & adverb (a) adjective twelve times as great or as numerous; having twelve parts, divisions, elements, or units; (b) adverb to twelve times the number or quantity: OE.
twelvemo noun duodecimo E18.
twelver noun (a) slang a coin worth twelve pence; (b) (Twelver) a member of a Shiite sect acknowledging twelve as opp. to seven Imams or religious leaders (opp.
Sevener): L17.

China World Hotel (tourism)


China World Hotel is a five star hotel in Beijing (China).