Dozen vs Dozed - What's the difference?
dozen | dozed |
(countable) A set of twelve.
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.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=Lee A. Groat
, title=Gemstones
, volume=100, issue=2, page=128
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(metallurgy) An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 139
(doze)
To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
* L'Estrange
To make dull; to stupefy.
* Samuel Pepys
* South
(slang) To bulldoze.
As a noun dozen
is (countable) a set of twelve.As a verb dozed is
(doze).dozen
English
Noun
(dozens)- 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.
- There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
- There were dozens''' and '''dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
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- The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Synonyms
* a great deal of, a lot of, heaps of, hundreds of, loads of, lots of, many, millions of, scores of, scads of, thousands ofAntonyms
* fewDerived terms
(terms derived from dozen) * baker's dozen * banker's dozen * Botany Bay dozen * cheaper by the dozen * daily dozen * dime a dozen * double dozen * doz (abbreviation ) * dozenal * dozenth * half dozen * long dozen * nineteen to the dozen * * twenty to the dozenSee also
* grossAnagrams
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----dozed
English
Verb
(head)doze
English
Verb
(doz)- I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
- If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
- I was an hour in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
- They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.