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Double

adjective

1.

Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities. Synonyms: dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold. "The office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence" , "Every episode has its double and treble meaning"

2.

Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs. Synonyms: dual, duple. "A double (binary) star" , "Double doors" , "Dual controls for pilot and copilot" , "Duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure"

3.

Twice as great or many. Synonyms: doubled, two-fold, twofold. "The dose is doubled" , "A twofold increase"

4.

Used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements.

5.

Used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis. Synonym: bivalent.

6.

Large enough for two. "A double room"

7.

Having two meanings with intent to deceive. Synonym: forked. "Spoke with forked tongue"

noun

1.

A base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base. Synonyms: two-bagger, two-base hit, two-baser.

2.

A stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts. Synonyms: stunt man, stunt woman.

3.

Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor). Synonyms: image, look-alike. "She's the very image of her mother"

4.

A quantity that is twice as great as another.

5.

Raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2. Synonym: doubling.

verb

(past & past part. doubled; pres. part. doubling)

1.

Increase twofold. Synonym: duplicate.

2.

Hit a two-base hit.

3.

Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain. Synonyms: double over, double up.

4.

Do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions.

5.

Bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit).

6.

Make or do or perform again. Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate.

adverb

1.

Downward and forward.

2.

Two together.

3.

To double the degree. Synonyms: doubly, twice. "His eyes were double bright"

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"Double" Quotes from Famous Books

... some hours of utter despair, in spite of the double excitement of these past weeks, for it has seemed to me that I was no nearer to you than I had been in the beginning. There was a sense of unreality about the whole affair. At first it seemed to me the most romantic ...

— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... Mississippi steamer, inasmuch as it affords the passengers an opportunity to exercise their locomotive powers on shore, is regarded as an interesting incident. This was particularly true on board the Chalmetta, for she was crowded to nearly double her complement of cabin-passengers, and the space usually devoted to exercise was too much crowded to render ...

— Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue • Warren T. Ashton

... villainous pain put unto them, that for all the forbidding of that great council assembled, they ceased not every day to preach out the name of Jesus still—not only in the temple, out of which they were set and whipped for the same before, but also, to double it with, they went preaching the name about from house to ...

— Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens • Thomas More

... a very good way to make sweetbreads do double duty. Boil a pair of sweetbreads until they are tender. Remove the membrane, cut them into slices; make a cream sauce. Add the sweetbreads, and, if you like, a half can of chopped mushrooms. Make a six-egg omelet, arrange the slices of sweetbread ...

— Many Ways for Cooking Eggs • Mrs. S.T. Rorer

... form to the preceding; image of an animal at one corner only; zigzag line around the neck; double undulate line around the body, ...

— Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 • James Stevenson

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