twelfth

«twelfth» in Mova's school dictionary: Twelfth comes after eleventh in order: number 12 — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

number, adjective, noun (twelfth, twelfths)

meaning for a pupil

1) Twelfth comes after eleventh in order: number 12. tree →

2) A twelfth is one of twelve equal parts of a whole, written 1/12. tree →

3) A month is one twelfth of a year. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: an order position or a fraction (one twelfth); one twelfth of a total means divide by 12. Everyday: twelfth grade (the last year of school in the US), Twelfth Night (a play by Shakespeare).

examples

• He finished twelfth in the race. tree →
• One twelfth of the class was absent. tree →
• The twelfth page has a picture. tree →
• A month is one twelfth of a year. tree →
• One twelfth of 36 is 3. tree →
• She is in twelfth grade. tree →
• The pizza was cut into twelfths. tree →
• "Then you shall be the twelfth," said the old Chinaman. tree →

note

Written 12th; note the f: twelve → twelfth. As a fraction: one twelfth of a total means divide by 12. As an order word it is a position, not an amount. Trap: do not write «twelth».

In the corpora

• On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali:
• the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim;
• The twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
• The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «twelfth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.