double

Significado (English)

Adj

1. Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
2. Of twice the quantity.
3. Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
4. Designed for two users.
5. Folded in two; composed of two layers.
6. Stooping; bent over.
7. Having two aspects; ambiguous.
8. False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
9. Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
10. Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
11. Of time, twice as fast.

Adv

1. Twice over; twofold; doubly.
2. Two together; two at a time.
3. Into two halves or sections.

Noun

1. Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
2. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
3. A drink with two portions of alcohol.
4. A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
5. A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
6. A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
7. A two-base hit.
8. A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
9. A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
10. 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.
11. The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
12. A hit on this ring.
13. A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
14. A double-precision floating-point number.
15. Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
16. A boat for two scullers.
17. The feat of scoring twice in one game.
18. The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
19. A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
20. A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
21. Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
22. A double feast.
23. Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
24. A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.

Verb

1. To multiply by two.
2. To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
3. To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
4. To fold over so as to make two folds.
5. To clench (a fist).
6. To get a two-base hit.
7. To join or couple.
8. To repeat exactly; copy.
9. To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
10. To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
11. To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
12. To turn sharply, following a winding course.
13. To sail around (a headland or other point).
14. To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
15. To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
16. To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
17. To double down.
18. To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
19. To go or march at twice the normal speed.
20. To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
21. To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
22. (informal) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
23. To operate as a double agent.

Synonyms

twofold

twice

dual

duplicate

two-fold

repeat

🔁

twin

fold

couple

👫

doppelganger

pair

duplex

look-alike

doubly

geminate

counterpart

bend

reduplicate

redouble

twice as much

two

binary

duple

replicate

two-base hit

two times

double over

forked

doubled

clone

stand-in

stunt woman

bivalent

both

double up

understudy

multiply

multiply by two

image

even

two-bagger

two-baser

reproduce

fold over

dualism

two-ply

duplication

alternate

proxy

dyad

twins

turn up

reduplicated

stunt man

turn down

double-cross

treble

stand in

increase

replica

doubling

fetch

double-barrelled

threefold

copy

fold up

substitute

paired

three-fold

substitute actor

curve

duality

two-faced

two-part

two-sided

be alike

dead ringer

hash over

pinch hitter

two sets

two together

important mission

heavy role

two layers

diplo-

two classes

diplex

duplexing

duplexity

be twins

be twice

be twofold

double nature

in double measure

tweedledum and tweedledee

reprize

double pass

accommodating two

increase twofold

make twice as great

meant for two

the two together

twice as great

twofold in character

geminated

twifold

doubling up

dubs

add

two-folds

add to

again

🔁

apartment

augment

backup

bawdy

binate

bipartite

carbon

clench

compound

coupled

crossroad

deceitful

deflect

deuce

diploid

ditto

divided

double-barreled

double-quick

doublet

duet

duo

duplicity

elude

fat

folded

fork

furl

grow

hypocritical

ingeminate

intensify

iterate

junction

lap

lookalike

marriage

💍

married

matrimonial

nuptial

overlap

parallel

parallelism

pile up

pillion

plait

ply

put on

rehash

replacement

replay

reprise

retrograde

reversal

ringer

rise

run

sacrifice

say

🗣️

second-string

spitting image

square

stack up

straddle

sub

superimpose

surrogate

thick

split into two

Hifenizado como

doub‧le

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈdʌb(ə)l/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglês médio: double

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

Frases

However , over time it was expanded to include a double platform .

No entanto, com o tempo, foi expandido para incluir uma plataforma dupla.

It was released on a double bill with a reissue of the film "Atragon".

Foi lançado em uma conta dupla com uma reedição do filme "Atragon".