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Triple   /trˈɪpəl/   Listen
Triple

adjective
1.
Having three units or components or elements.  Synonyms: ternary, treble, triplex.  "A treble row of red beads" , "Overcrowding made triple sessions necessary" , "Triple time has three beats per measure" , "Triplex windows"
2.
Three times as great or many.  Synonyms: three-fold, threefold, treble.  "A threefold increase"
noun
1.
A base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base.  Synonyms: three-bagger, three-base hit.
2.
A set of three similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: triad, trio, triplet.
3.
A quantity that is three times as great as another.
verb
(past & past part. tripled; pres. part. tripling)
1.
Increase threefold.  Synonym: treble.
2.
Hit a three-base hit.



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"Triple" Quotes from Famous Books



... he clambers up, suspending himself in the air, his feet cling to the moss-grown stones, he seizes a vine, swings himself forward, gains the top of the wall, and the crushed grasses groan as he leaps down upon them. Having touched the earth within the enclosure, he rises up with triple power, and bounds into the leafy labyrinth. Oaks, ashes, pines, and firs, the remains of the great forest, are around him. Thickets, vineyards, and meadows lie in the moonlight, brooks and fountains ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... a curious survival of Huron-Iroquois customs. The villages of the Hurons and Ottawas, which were side by side, separated only by a fence, were surrounded by a common enclosure of triple palisades, which, with the addition of loopholes for musketry, were precisely like those seen by Cartier at Hochelaga, and by Champlain in the Onondaga country. The dwellings which these defences enclosed were also after the old Huron-Iroquois pattern,—those long arched structures ...
— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman

... usual prices of admission to the concerts having been raised, Mendelssohn set everything straight by having a soiree in his honor at the Gewandhaus, where there were three hundred and fifty people, orchestra, chorus, punch, pastry, Meeresstille Psalm, Bach's Triple Concerto, choruses from St. Paul, Fantasia on Lucia, the Erl King, the Devil and his Grandmother, the latter probably a mild satirical reference to Liszt's stormy and often incoherent playing. It is also pleasant to find how cordially Mendelssohn received Berlioz there, as told in the "Memoirs" ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various

... and morality are not only living together on friendly terms with one another, but, in fact, they are blended together in the minds of the people, who draw necessary nourishment from all of these sources. One and the same Japanese is both a Shint[o]ist, a Confucianist, and a Buddhist. He plays a triple part, so to speak ... Our religion may be likened to a triangle.... Shint[o]ism furnishes the object, Confucianism offers the rules of life, while Buddhism supplies the way of salvation; so you see we Japanese are eclectic in ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis

... 53 232. thy triple shape. Diana is often confused with Hecate, a most mysterious divinity. Hecate is represented with three heads and three bodies, and possessed the attributes of Luna in heaven, of Diana on earth, and of Proserpina in the ...
— Palamon and Arcite • John Dryden


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