midnight vs twelve

midnight

noun
  • Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”) 

  • Twelve o'clock at night exactly. 

  • The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. 

adj
  • Utterly dark or black. 

twelve

noun
  • A group of twelve items. 

  • A jury (normally composed of twelve persons). 

  • A twelve-bore gun. 

  • The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer. 

  • Front (front side of something, position in front of something). 

num
  • The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII. 

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