英语词汇“twelve-step”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

twelve-step

释义

twelve /twelv/

noun

The cardinal number next above eleven
A symbol representing that number (12, xii, etc)
A set of twelve things or people
A score of twelve points, strokes, tricks, etc
An article of a size denoted by 12
(in pl) duodecimo
(12) a certificate designating a film passed as suitable only for people of twelve years and over
The hour of midnight or midday
The age of twelve years

adjective

Of the number twelve
Twelve years old

ORIGIN: OE twelf (Ger zwölf and Gothic twa-lif) ie prob two left; see eleven

twelveˈfold adjective and adverb

twelveˈmo noun (pl twelveˈmos)

Duodecimo, written 12mo

twelve-hour clock noun

A method of reckoning time by two successive periods of twelve hours, beginning again at 1 after 12 noon

twelveˈmonth noun

A year

twelveˈ-penny adjective

Shilling

twelve score noun

Two hundred and forty (yards)

twelveˈ-step adjective (chiefly US)

Relating to a process of recovery from addiction that involves twelve stages

Twelve Tables plural noun

The earliest code of Roman law, civil, criminal and religious, made by the decemvirs in 451–449BC

twelveˈ-tone or twelveˈ-note adjective

Relating to music based on a pattern formed from the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, esp as developed by Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) and his pupils (twelve-tone row or twelve-note row being the basic pattern of notes; see also series and serial)

the Twelve (Bible)

The twelve apostles

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