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half-dozen

/half-duhz-uhn, hahf-/US // ˈhælfˈdʌz ən, ˈhɑf- //

半打,半打的,半数以上,半数

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one half of a dozen; six.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : considering six as a unit; consisting of six.

Examples

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.

  • My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

  • As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.

  • Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.

  • It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

  • There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.

  • All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.