12
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- The recipe calls for 12 eggs to make a large batch of cookies.
- 12 months
- 12 years
- 12 percent
Examples
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That explains the 12% saturation.
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In addition to designs on her limbs, she had 12 overlapping rings tattooed on her nape.
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You know, I am 12 minutes older than you.
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In each school, at the end of term four, 12 students were interviewed.
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This is one of the 12 Steve Prefontaine movies being released this year.
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12 days of Christmas.
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Unemployment surged to nearly 12 percent as the economy shrank by about 3 percent.
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Target, 12 o'clock!
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Many people have preconceptions about nursing homes, and the 12 volunteers were no exception, says Clutterbuck.
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She has 12 cookies on her plate, enough to share with her friends.
Synonyms
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A number that is one more than eleven
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A group of twelve things or people
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A Roman way to write the number twelve
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A Roman numeral for twelve
Idioms
Compounds
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A public holiday in some countries to remember the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492
Surface Forms
Etymology
12 Comes from the Old English word twelf, made from parts that meant 'two' and 'left', so it originally meant 'two left' after ten and that is why 12 is ten plus two.