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Dual

adjective

Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs. Synonyms: double, 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"

Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities. Synonyms: double, 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"

A grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural).

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"Dual" Quotes from Famous Books

... which may be analyzed in different instances, into very different quantities of the elements which make it up. This mixed form of income, which goes to the owners of industry by virtue of their dual connection with industrial enterprise—the connection of ownership and direction—contains in some forms of enterprise a large element of what has been called "the wages of management"; in other forms this element may be almost entirely absent. So too with the element of "interest" and with ...

— The Settlement of Wage Disputes • Herbert Feis

... suggestion of Bridget's has cleared the way. From the moment of hearing there had been no real hesitation; before night fell my plans were made, and a telegram to Charmion was speeding on its way. A new life lay before me—a dual life, teeming with interest and possibility. On one hand, my fate must be to some extent bound up with that of Charmion Fane, the most interesting and, in a sense, mysterious woman I had ever met; on the other, I was plunging into the unknown, and transforming myself into a new personality, ...

— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... night and went below it was with the feeling that I had been talking with the one half of some sort of a dual creature. The other half had not spoken. Yet I sensed it there, fluttering and quick, behind the mask of ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... intimately and indissolubly connected with the staid and funereal solemnity which marks an Englishman's dress, conversation, and conduct on Sunday. He is a different being for the nonce, and must sustain the entire character of his dual existence, or it will fall to the ground and forsake him altogether. He cannot take his religion in the morning and enjoy himself the rest of the day. He must abstain from everything that could remind him that he has a mind at all, besides a soul. No amusement ...

— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford

... Washington's task was a dual one. While the active head of his great and rapidly growing institution, he was also the generally accepted leader of his race. It is with his leadership of his race that we are concerned in this chapter. His duties ...

— Booker T. Washington - Builder of a Civilization • Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe

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