| 单词 | twelfth part |
| 例句 | HOUR, the twenty-fourth part of a civil day, the twelfth part of a natural day or night, a space of time of sixty minutes’ duration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Ounce, owns, n. the twelfth part of a pound troy=480 grains: 1⁄16 of a pound avoirdupois=437� troy grains. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Many of them made but little impression and scarcely a twelfth part of them are performed in the present day. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Digit, dij′it, n. a finger's breadth or � inch: from the habit of counting on the fingers, any one of the nine numbers: the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z As if a lentil could not be boiled in any other way except according to the precepts of Zeno, who said— Add to the lentils a twelfth part of coriander. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z But with a single friction jet and amber draw and attract bodies to them strongly and for a long time, sometimes for the twelfth part of an hour, especially in clear weather. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments In astronomy a digit is the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; it is used to express the magnitude of an eclipse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" They got roots, but did not grow up at all; with milk of lime the twelfth part was absorbed. Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 A twelfth part of the diameter; a term employed to denote the magnitude of an eclipse; as, so many digits eclipsed. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Having done this, let him cut a notch out of the paper, extending through both the circles to the centre, and including a twelfth part, or thirty degrees, of each between its converging sides. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 No doubt, of the recorded facts of civil life some are good, and more are indifferent, neither good nor bad; but good and indifferent together are scarcely more than a twelfth part of the whole. Gryll Grange The twelfth part of a pica is the unit, called a point, by which type bodies are measured. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) After 14 days they had got roots, but also did not grow up, and with milk of lime likewise only the twelfth part was absorbed. Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 You have then lost one twelfth part of the available portion of the day. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister For it amounts to a twelfth part of all the circulating species which a trade infinitely more extensive has derived from sources infinitely more exuberant, to this wealthy nation, in this improved age. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) If, therefore, one of the original pieces of iron has any flaw or defect, it will form only a hundred and twelfth part of the thrice-rolled bar. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 He took many of their towns and wasted all their country up to the sea-coast, with an army of 70,000 Greeks, of whom the Thebans formed less than a twelfth part. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II But the standard hour for astronomical purposes was the twelfth part of the equinoctial day, when the sun rises 6 a.m. and sets 6 p.m., and therefore corresponded with our own. Early Britain—Roman Britain He supported Mrs. Desmoulins none the less, giving house-room to her and her daughter, and making her an allowance of half-a-guinea a week, a sum equal to a twelfth part of his pension. Samuel Johnson Anon it appeared again thrice for the twelfth part of an hour. Traffics and Discoveries Heb. log: a measure of liquids, which was the twelfth part of a hin; and held about as much as six eggs. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision For less than a million of pounds sterling, modified, taken down, and amoderated to the twelfth part of one fourpence halfpenny farthing, you are able to put it to a trial and make proof thereof. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Take away one of these and they will see one is the twelfth part of 12, and that 12 1's are twelve. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age To the widow he allowed half-a-guinea a week, the twelfth part, as Boswell observes, of his pension. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Picardy lost a twelfth part of its population; many large cities were almost abandoned. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers Not the twelfth part of the tea was consumed. The Old Wives' Tale "If the days are only half as long as they were, sixty of them cannot make up a twelfth part of Gallia's year—cannot be a month." Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Not at all: not so much as the symptom of the evil; scarcely the twelfth part of the symptom, and exasperated the other eleven! The French Revolution PER ANNUM, or one twelfth part of the interest commonly extorted by the Jews and other usurers upon those occasions. Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 |
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