Gram vs Dozen - What's the difference?
gram | dozen |
A group of leguminous plants that are grown for their seeds. pulses.
(uncountable) The seeds of these plants.
(obsolete) angry
* Havelok the Dane
(US)
(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
As nouns the difference between gram and dozen
is that gram is a unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g while dozen is a set of twelve.As an adjective gram
is angry.As a proper noun Gram
is {{surname}.gram
English
Alternative forms
* grammeEtymology 1
From (etyl) gramme, from (etyl) .See also
* kilogram * milligram *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . From (etyl) .Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary. 1976. pp. 566Noun
(-)Anagrams
*Etymology 3
Diminutive of grandmotherEtymology 4
(etyl), akin to grim.Adjective
(en adjective)- For he knew, the swike dam, / Euerildel God was him gram .
Etymology 5
Noun
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* (gram) * ----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.
citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
- The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
