Twelve vs Twelveish - What's the difference?
twelve | twelveish |
The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
A group of twelve items.
A twelve-bore gun.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 880:
(legal) (colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
As nouns the difference between twelve and twelveish
is that twelve is a group of twelve items while twelveish is (colloquial) any time close to twelve o'clock.As a numeral twelve
is the cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in arabic numerals as 12 and in roman numerals as xii.twelve
English
(wikipedia twelve)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: * Roman numerals: XIINumeral
(head)- There are twelve months in a year.
See also
* Last: eleven. Next: thirteenNoun
(en noun)- Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves .
- In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.
