TWELVE

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Traducere în limba română

twelve I. numeral card., adjectiv, pronume

doisprezece.

twelve II. substantiv

1. doisprezece; duzină.

2. grup de 12 persoane, obiecte etc.

3. the Twelve (rel.) cei doispreceze apostoli.

4. (poligr.) format de 12 file (24 pagini).

And checks they brought, for four dollars each, at the end of twelve days.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was quarter to twelve when the alarm broke out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There are six men in London that would hengage to walk round the best twelve that hever came from the west.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A human life stage that begins at birth and continues until twelve complete months of age.

(Infancy, NICHD)

The lamp was lit. The clock was on the stroke of twelve.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I shall not give it up till a quarter after twelve.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of interest.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

A little before twelve o'clock we three—Arthur, Quincey Morris, and myself—called for the Professor.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)