Dozen
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A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows.
An indefinite small number.
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Dozen Quotations
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
Elizabeth I
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
Christopher Columbus
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
Galen Rowell
In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.
Thomas E. Mann
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
Brad Pitt
Dozen Translations
dozen in Afrikaans is dosyn
dozen in Danish is dusin
dozen in Dutch is twaalftal, dozijn
dozen in French is douzaine, tutoyer
dozen in German is Dutzend
dozen in Hungarian is tucat
dozen in Italian is dozzina
dozen in Norwegian is dusin
dozen in Spanish is docena, tutear
dozen in Swedish is dussin
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