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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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... backward somersault into the bulrushes, he smiled widely. "I'll tell you what I'll do!" he said. "First, I'll make you a coat free. And second, if you like it I will then make you a waistcoat and trousers, at double rates." ...

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... openly, Stillwater began seriously to question Mr. Taggett's method of working up the case. The Gazette, in a double-leaded leader, went so far as to compare him to a bird with fine feathers and no song, and to suggest that perhaps the bird might have sung if the inducement offered had been more substantial. A singer of Mr. Taggett's plumage was not to be taught by such chaff as five hundred dollars. Having ...

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... on the ground that in common language it is unusual to speak of literature as an art, and that to do so is unduly to narrow its meaning and to leave out of sight its main function as the record of thought. But there is no reason why the word Literature should not be employed in that double sense which is allowed to attach to Painting, Music, Sculpture, as signifying either the objective outcome of a certain mental activity, seeking to express itself in outward form; or else the particular kind of mental activity in ...

— The Art of Literature • Arthur Schopenhauer

... began the latter, wrinkling her pretty forehead in a prettier perplexity and looking helplessly back and forth between their double eagerness. ...

— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner

... approaching rows. A stranger figure rode at the front; it was it is an old Capuchin in habit and on a horse, in one hand a lance and the other blessing people with a cross, who kissed his legs. Behind the Capuchin followed a thousand archers from the Augustow forests. They had slung double-barrelled guns and badger skin bags with claws and bared teeth, whitening on green jackets. Another thousand villagers, armed with crooked scythes and axes, brought up the rear of the procession. Never had the entrance of the most beautiful regiments, even the entrance ...

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