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the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
twelve
Determiner
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(ordinal twelfth) Twelve is the number that is after eleven and before thirteen. In numerals, it is 12.
Twelve eggs make a big omelette.
twelve
Noun
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The number 12.
and ten makes twelve.
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A set of twelve things or persons.
The twelve are never alone.
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To be twelve years old.
This girl is twelve.
Prophets
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noun
the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures