Dictionary Definition
double adj
1 having more than one decidedly dissimilar
aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the
office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private
influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble
meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn: dual, twofold, treble, threefold]
2 consisting of or involving two parts or
components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "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" [syn: dual, duple]
3 twice as great or many; "ate a double portion";
"the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: doubled, twofold]
4 used of flowers having more than the usual
number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double
chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical
or hemispherical" [ant: single]
5 used of homologous chromosomes associated in
pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent] [ant: multivalent, univalent]
6 large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double
room"
7 having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a
sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: forked]
Noun
1 a base hit on which the batter stops safely at
second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: two-base
hit, two-bagger,
two-baser]
2 a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous
stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark
Gable" [syn: stunt man,
stunt
woman]
3 someone who closely resembles a famous person
(especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the
very image of her mother" [syn: image, look-alike]
4 a quantity that is twice as great as another;
"36 is the double of 18"
5 raising the stakes in a card game by a factor
of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling] adv
1 downward and forward; "he was bent double with
pain"
2 two together; "some people sleep better
double"
3 to double the degree; "she was doubly
rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, twice]
Verb
1 increase twofold; "The population doubled
within 50 years" [syn: duplicate]
2 hit a two-base hit
3 bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or
pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over,
double
up]
4 do double duty; serve two purposes or have two
functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary"
5 bridge: make a demand for (a card or
suit)
6 make or do or perform again; "He could never
replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn:
duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
13th Century. From double, from duplus, from διπλόος.Adjective
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements
- The closet has double doors.
- Twice the quantity
- Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and
paternal sides of a family
- He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.
- Designed for two users.
- a double room
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- a double meaning
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- a double life
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of an instrument,
sounding an octave lower.
- a double bass
- Of time, twice as fast.
Derived terms
- double-cross/doublecross
- double agent
- double cousin
- double date/double-date
- double double
- double Dutch
- double entendre
- doublehearted
- double life
- double meaning
- double negative
- double positive
- double strength
- double take
- double tongue
- double-tongued
- double U
- double vision
- duplex
Related terms
Translations
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Adverb
- Twice over; twofold.
- Two together; two at a time. (esp. in see double)
Noun
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often
for safety purposes
- Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol
- On second thought, make that a double.
- A two-base hit
- The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
- A sharp turn, esp. a return on one's own tracks.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- 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.
- In the context of "darts": The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- In the context of "darts": A hit on this ring.
Derived terms
Translations
twice the number or size etc
- Finnish: kaksinkertainen määrä
- German: Doppelte
a person resembling or standing for another
- Dutch: dubbelganger , dubbelgangster
- Finnish: kaksoisolento
- German: Doppelgänger, Double
- Hebrew: כפיל (kafyl) , כפילה (kfila)
- Italian: sosia
- Russian: двойник
- Spanish: doble, sosias
a drink with double amount of alcohol
- Finnish: tupla
- German: Doppelter
- Italian: doppio
- Russian: двойной
Verb
- To multiply by two
- The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- To fold over so as to make two folds
- To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.
- To get a two-base hit
- The batter doubled into the corner.
- (sometimes foll. by up) To clench (a fist).
- (often foll. by together or up) To join or couple.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To play two parts or serve two roles.
- To turn sharply; following a winding course.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- In the context of "music|intransitive|usually followed by "on"": To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- In the context of "sports|billiards|snooker|pool": To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (foll. by for) To act as substitute.
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To increase by
100%, to become twice as large in size.
- Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
Derived terms
Translations
to multiply by two
- Czech: zdvojnásobit
- Finnish: kaksinkertaistaa
- German: verdoppeln, doppeln
- Hebrew: להכפיל (lehakhpyl)
- Russian: удваивать , удвоить
to fold over so as to make two folds
- Finnish: laskostaa
- German: verdoppeln
baseball: to get a two-base hit
to clench
- Finnish: puristaa
- German: ballen
to join
- Finnish: liittää
to copy
- Finnish: toistaa
to serve two roles
- Finnish: olla kaksoisrooli
- German: doubeln
to turn sharply
- Finnish: tehdä äkkikäännös
nautical: to sail around sthg
- Finnish: kiertää
music: to duplicate a part
- Finnish: toistaa, kerrata
music: to be capable of performing upon an
additional instrument
bridge: to make a call that will double certain
scoring points
- Finnish: tuplata
- German: kontrieren
billiards: to cause to rebound from a
cushion
to act as substitute
- Finnish: korvata
- German: doubeln
to go at twice the normal speed
- German: doppeln
French
Pronunciation
- /dubl/
- Audio (France)
Adjective
doubleDerived terms
Noun
doubleVerb
- Form of doubler
See also
Extensive Definition
Double may refer to:
- Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
- Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
Sports
- Doublebugg, a dancesport which is performed by three dancers.
- Double (baseball), two-base hit in baseball
- Double, a snooker shot where the player tries to pot a ball via one cushion
- The Double, to win a country's top division and its main cup competition in the same season in football
- Double (cricket), the feat of scoring a thousand first-class runs and taking a hundred first-class wickets in a single season.
Games
- Double, action in games, including bridge and backgammon, whereby a competitor raises the stakes to around twice their previous level
- Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
- In dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution or In the Groove, a mode of play in which a single player uses twice as many pads as normal (e.g. 8 instead of 4)
Music
- DOUBLE (singer)
- Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
- Double variation, a variation form in music
Other
- Double, a bet which combines two selections
- Double, former fraction of the Guernsey pound
- Double precision, computer numbering format that occupies two storage locations in computer memory at address and address+1
- Double negative, in language
- Double-banded
- Double-crested
- Double-ended
- Double-eyed
- Double-headed
- Double-lined
- Double-spurred
- Double-striped
- Double-Tongued
See also
double in German: Doppel
double in Dutch: Dubbel
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Doppelganger, Janus-like,
Machiavellian,
Photostat, Xerox, aberrancy, aberration, accelerate, act for, actual
thing, agent, aggravate, alternate, alternative, ambidextrous, ambiguous, amplify, analogy, artful, at full speed, at once,
augment, average, avoid, backup, beef up, beg, bend, bias, bifacial, bifold, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, bilk, binary, binate, biparous, bipartisan, bipartite, bisect, bivalent, blow up, branching
off, briskly, carbon
copy, change, change
places with, changeling, circuitousness, circumvent, clone, co-walker, come again, come
back, come home, companion, comparison, complicate, concentrate, condense, conduplicate, consolidate, coordinate, copy, corner, counterfeit, counterpart, coupled, crafty, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, crook, crooked, crowd out, cunning, curve, cut out, dead ringer,
deceitful, declination, deepen, deflection, departure, deputy, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, dichotomous, digression, discursion, dishonest, disomatous, displace, ditch, ditto, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, do a repeat, do
again, do over, dog-ear, dogleg, double back, double for,
double over, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded,
double-tongued, doubled,
doubleganger,
doublehearted,
doubling, drift, drifting, duadic, dual, dualistic, dub, duck, dummy, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, duplication, duplicature, duplicitous, dyadic, echo, effigy, elude, enfold, enhance, enlarge, equal, equivalent, errantry, ersatz, escape, eschew, etheric double, evade, exacerbate, exact
counterpart, exact likeness, exaggerate, exchange, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, facsimile, faithless, fake, false, false-principled, falsehearted, fellow, fetch, fill in for, fill-in,
flection, flexure, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, frill, gather, geminate, geminated, get around, get
away from, get out of, ghost, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, go back, go
home, hairpin, heat up,
hectograph, heighten, homograph, homonym, homophone, hop up, hot up,
hypocritical,
icon, idem, identical, identical same,
idol, image, imitate, imitation, immediately, increase, indirection, infold, ingeminate, insincere, intensify, interfold, jazz up, key up,
lap over, lapel, lappet, likeness, living image, living
picture, locum tenens, magnify, make complex, makeshift, manifold, match, matched, mate, metaphor, metonymy, microcopy, microfilm, middle, mimeo, mimeograph, miniature, mirror image,
mirroring, model, multigraph, multiply by two,
next best thing, no other, none other, obliquity, on the run,
paired, parrot, pererration, perfidious, personnel, phony, photograph, picture, pinch hitter,
pinch-hit, plagiarize, plait, plat, pleat, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply, portrait, proxy, put back, quadruplicate, quickly, quill, quote, rambling, ramify, reciprocal, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reflection, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinforce, relief, relieve, renew, repeat, repetition, replace, replacement, replica, replicate, replication, represent, representation, representative, reproduce, reproduction, resemblance, reserves, return, revive, ringer, rubbing, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, say again, second, second string, secondary, selfsame, semblance, shadow, shake, shake off, sharpen, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course,
shifting path, shifty,
shuffle out of, shun,
shy, sign, similitude, simulacrum, skew, skirt, slant, slippery, soup up, spares, spell, spell off, spit, spit and image, spitting
image, stand in for, stand-in, stat, step up, straying, strengthen, sub, subrogate, substituent, substitute, substitute for,
substitution,
succedaneum,
succeed, supersede, superseder, supplant, supplanter, supplement, surrogate, swap places with,
sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, symbol, synecdoche, synonym, tack, the same, the same
difference, third string, token, trace, tracing, traitorous, transcribe, treacherous, tricky, triple, triplicate, tuck, turn, turn back, turn over,
turning, twain, twice, twill, twin, twinned, twist, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply,
two-sided, two-story, twofold, understudy, understudy for,
utility player, variation, veer, veering, very image, very
picture, very same, vicar,
vice-president, vice-regent, wandering, warp, whet, without delay, wraith, yaw, zigzag