double
IPA: dˈʌbʌɫ
noun
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A surname.
- (US, motor racing) Collectively, both the Indianapolis 500, a day race, and the Coca-Cola 600, an evening race, both of which are run on Memorial Day weekend Sunday. Used concerning racers who (wish[/ed/ing] to) participat[e/ed/ing] in both events, typically using a private jet to travel between Indianapolis, Indiana, after the 500 and Charlotte, North Carolina, to get to the 600.
verb
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive with as) To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- (transitive, intransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
adjective
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
adverb
- Twice over; twofold; doubly.
- Two together; two at a time.
- Into two halves or sections.
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Examples of "double" in Sentences
- Double coat roughens the nail.
- The double standard is palpable.
- The double criterion is unsightly.
- I doubled the length of the article.
- There is a double door with a fanlight.
- Is the letter doubled in the Arabic name
- As the voltage is halved, the capacitance is doubled.
- He used the term double-bind, in conjunction with prophecy.
- The number of prostitutes has also doubled in the recent decade.
- What the original meaning of the term double may have been is not entirely certain.
- I'm just -- that use of the term double has been thrown out a lot, and it's not true.
- Restaurants should price LI bottles at much less than double retail while non-LI selections could be double+.
- But it is as well to point out, that the term double flowers indicates a motley assemblage of different phenomena.
- In the first show, for example, Dyrdek asks Chanel "West Coast" what comes to mind when she hears the term "double whammy."
- The term double knitting DK came to the United States from Britain and refers to a weight of yarn that is between a worsted and a sportweight.
- The isolation of organs which, under ordinary circumstances, are united together, is another circumstance, giving rise, in popular parlance, to the use of the term double flower.
- "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially --," 1 Tim.v. 17: whether we take _double honor_ here for reverence or maintenance, or both; yet how can we esteem the _elders ruling well worthy of double honor_ without some submission to their rule?