double
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.
Inflected forms:
form: doubles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doubles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doubling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doubled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doubled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The closet has double doors.
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Such is not the usage of civilized warfare. Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
gloss: Of twice the quantity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.
Britain's population density used to be double that of China.
The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
The Shanghai-based company reported Wednesday that net profit soared 246% to 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the average analyst estimate of 12.62 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), according to LSEG data.
gloss: Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.
gloss: Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a double room
a double garage
gloss: Folded in two; composed of two layers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Stooping; bent over.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having two aspects; ambiguous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a double meaning
Assuming the accuracy of his information, the curious fact was established that Mr Rigby Lacksome, ostensibly in England to attend the book sales, had prompted a convenient organization to carry out a raid on a certain historic building, while he himself immediately appeared on the scene with an arrangement to make good the damage. […] Was there, indeed, some double purpose here at work?
gloss: False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a double life
A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
gloss: Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a double bass
gloss: Of time, twice as fast.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Twice over; twofold; doubly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: February 7 1736, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
I was double their age.
gloss: Two together; two at a time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: When I met the twins, I thought I was seeing double.
There are only a few beds, so some of the children will have to sleep double for the night.
gloss: Into two halves or sections.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The old man was bent double under his heavy burden.
gloss: Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
pos: noun
examples: Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
gloss: A drink with two portions of alcohol.
pos: noun
examples: On second thought, make that a double.
gloss: A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
pos: noun
examples: According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he commenced telling about one or the other of the eighteen bears he had killed in his time.
gloss: A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
pos: noun
gloss: A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
pos: noun
examples: I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.
Before printing the photos, Liam deleted the doubles.
gloss: A two-base hit.
pos: noun
examples: The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
gloss: A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
pos: noun
gloss: A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
pos: noun
examples: Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Not only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well.
gloss: The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
pos: noun
gloss: A hit on this ring.
pos: noun
gloss: A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
pos: noun
gloss: A double-precision floating-point number.
pos: noun
examples: The sine function returns a double.
gloss: Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
pos: noun
gloss: A boat for two scullers.
pos: noun
gloss: The feat of scoring twice in one game.
pos: noun
examples: DJ Campbell grabbed a second-half double as Blackpool made Sunderland pay for a host of missed chances to secure a fifth away league win of the season.
gloss: The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
pos: noun
examples: In 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes.
gloss: The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
pos: noun
gloss: A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
pos: noun
tags: Guernsey
historical
examples: As for doubles, they are not worth anything now; and I have still got an egg-cupful my mother used to keep handy to give the baker change from a farthing.
gloss: Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
pos: noun
gloss: A double feast.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
pos: noun
gloss: A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
pos: noun
examples: The saxophone is a valuable and rewarding double, and opens up many gigs that aren’t available to players of just the “orchestral” woodwinds.
gloss: A double-cross or betrayal.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: His fellows had chaffed him much upon the way that astute adventurer had bamboozled him, or, in their vernacular, "put the double on him," and vowed that all his energies should be devoted to a return match.
gloss: To multiply by two.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
gloss: To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
gloss: To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
pos: verb
examples: Thus re-inforc’d, againſt the adverſe Fleet / Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.
gloss: To fold over so as to make two folds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.
gloss: To clench (a fist).
pos: verb
tags: sometimes
transitive
gloss: To get a two-base hit.
pos: verb
examples: The batter doubled into the corner.
gloss: To join or couple.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
gloss: To repeat exactly; copy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon.
gloss: To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
sometimes
examples: Laforêt, who (as the French express it), doubles Lainez, that is, performs the same characters in his absence.
[…] and when she attempted to double the part of her mother, she equally failed in playing the great or agreeable lady.
gloss: To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
pos: verb
examples: When, therefore, Briggs, the sedate, middle-aged individual, who in the Markham household doubles the roles of butler and valet, makes his appearance, his master affects to be in a great hurry, looks at his watch, and says : […]
Miss Theby doubles in the part of Rose and the native girl in the Philippines. This is a problem plot in which a young man leaves the girl of his choice because she has had an affair in her earlier years. He goes to the Philippines, […]
In On the Beat he doubles the parts of a constable and a gang-leader. Norman was all over the place.
In his case the matter is simplified by the fact that the head of his Deception Staff doubles the roles of author and producer. The Commander therefore tells him what sort of deception he needs, examines the plans produced for him […]
gloss: To turn sharply, following a winding course.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To sail around (a headland or other point).
pos: verb
examples: Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage.
[…] though the Iſland itſelf was not very large […] I found a great Ledge of Rocks lie out about two Leagues into the Sea[…]ſo that I was oblig’d to go a great Way out to Sea to double the Point.
gloss: To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
pos: verb
gloss: To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
gloss: To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
pos: verb
gloss: To double down.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
pos: verb
gloss: To go or march at twice the normal speed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "You double down to the harbour, my lad," said the Captain to Strickland, "and sign on. You've got your papers."
Strickland set off at once, and that was the last Captain Nichols saw of him.
gloss: To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sorry, this store does not double coupons.
gloss: To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
pos: verb
gloss: To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.
gloss: To operate as a double agent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Was this simply the cover name of an Allied spy-code named the Brass Monkey? […] The possibility that the Brass Monkey himself was "doubling" (with headquarters' approval, of course) is too logical […]
Synonyms: twin
twofold
double
Antonyms: half
halve
bisect
Related words: single
triple
quadruple
quintuple
sextuple
solo
double
twofold
threefold
fourfold
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Derived words: a-double-s
aitch ee double hockey sticks
back-double
back double biceps
B-double
bidouble
British Double Summer Time
cocked hat double
double acrostic
double act
double-acting
double-action
double action
double acute accent
double adapter
double adaptor
double-A
double A
double agent
double agentry
double angle quotation mark
double angle quote
double annulus
double appointment
double articulation
double A-side
double aunt
double back
double-bagger
double-banded courser
double-banded plover
double-bank
double-banked
double bar
double bar line
double-barred finch
double-barrel
double-barreled
double-barrelled
double-barreled question
double-barreled shotgun
double-barrelled shotgun
double barrel vault
double base
double-bass
double bass
double-bassist
double bassist
double bassoon
Double Bay
double-bazinga
double bazinga
double-bearing
double becket hitch
double bed
double belly buster
double besom pocket
double biceps
double bill
double bind
double birdie
double biscuit
double-biting
double black diamond
double-blind
double-blind test
double-bluff
double bluff
double bogey
double boil
double boiler
double bond
double-bonded
double bonus
double-book
double booked
double bookkeeping
double bourgeois
double-break
double break
double break point
double-breasted
double bridle
double bubble
double bubble conjecture
double bubble mint
double buddy
double budget
double burden
double cab
double canon
double-celling
double-check
double check
double chicane
double chin
double-click
double click
double clinch
doublecloth
double-clutch
double clutch
double coconut
double code
double coding
double concave
double concerto
double-conical drum
double conical drum
double consciousness
double-convex
double copula
double count
double counting
double-course
double cousin
double coverage
double cream
double crenate
double criminality
double crochet
double cropping
doublecross
double-cross
double cross
double-crosser
double-crossing
double crossover
double-crostic
double cuff
double cylinder
double D
double dabble
double-dactyl
double dactyl
double dagger
double danda
double dare
double-date
double date
double dative
double day
double-dead meat
double-deal
double deal
double-dealer
double dealer
double-dealing
double-decant
double-deck
double-decker bus
double-decker
double decker
double declension
double-declutch
double-declutching
double decomposition
double definition
double degree
double denim
double-density
double density
double depression
double descent
double desk
double-dick
double-dicking
double dig
double digging
double-digit
double digits
double dildo
double-dink
double-dip
double dip
double dispatch
double dissolution
double doctoring
double-dog-dare
double-dog dare
double dog dare
doubledome
double-dome
double dong
double door
double doors
double-dotted
double-double-cross
double-double-double
double-double
double double
double-down
double dozen
double-dribble
double dribble
double drummer
double Ds
double Dutch
double-duty
double duty
double-dyed
double E
double eagle
double-eagle
double-edged
double-edged sword
double effect
double empathy problem
double emulsion
double-end
double-ended
double-ended dildo
double-ended queue
double-ender
double-ending
double English
double entendre
double entente
double-entry
double entry
double envelopment
double equals
double-exposure
double exposure
double extortion
double-eyed
double eyelid
double-faced
double factorial
double-fault
double fault
double feature
double figures
double file
double first
double first cousin
double fisherman's knot
double-fist
double-fisted
double-fisting
double-flash
double flash
double flat
double foolscap
double free
double fugue
double-full
double full
double-gaited
double-gaiter
doubleganger
double-geared
double-glaze
double-glazed
double-glazing
double glazing
double Gloucester
Double Gloucester
double gold
double grab
double grave accent
double great primer
double gutshot
double gut shot
doublehand
double-hand
doublehanded
double-handed
double-handedly
double-handedness
double-handling
double happiness
double-hat
double hater
double-headed
double-headed bug
double-header
double-heading
double hearsay
doublehearted
double-hearted
double helix
double helping
double hemiplegia
double hoe
double house
double-hulled
double-hung
double in brass
double indemnity
double India pale ale
double IPA
double-jab
double-jabbed
double jack
double jasmine
double jeopardy
double-jobbing
double jobbing
double-jointed
double jump
double ka meetha
double kill
double kiss
double-knit
double knit
double knitting
double lesson
double letter
double life
double-line whip
double-lock
double lock standing seam
double magnum
double-major
double major
double majority
double malt
double-manned
double-marking
double-masted
double meaning
doubleminded
double-minded
double-mindedly
double-mindedness
double mini
double mini trampoline
double modal
double monastery
double monocular O
double moral
double-muscled
double muscling
double napoleon
double Napoleon
double negation
double negative
double nelson
doubleness
double-nickel
doublenigger
double-nosed Andean tiger hound
double note
double number
double obelisk
double obelus
double-oblique
double occupancy
double off
double open jaw
double opt-in
double or nothing
double orphan
double or quits
doublepack
double-page spread
double-park
double park
double-parking
double parking
double Pedro
double pendulum
double-penetrate
double penetrate
double penetration
double penetration dildo
double period
double pica
double planet
double play depth
double-play
double play
double plural
double-plus-good
double-plus-ungood
double pneumonia
double point
double-pointed needle
double-poled
double-pole
double pole
double-pole technique
double poling
double possessive
double procession
double-prop
double prop
double pulsar
double quarrel
double quasar
double-quick
double-quote
double quote
double rainbow
double redirect
double-reed
double reed
double refraction
double-replacement reaction
double replacement reaction
double reverse
double rhyme
double-ripper
double room
double rotation
double S
double salt
double saucepan
double sawbuck
double science
double scull
double sculls
double sensation
Double Seventh Festival
double-sewn
doublesex
double sharp
double sheet bend
double shortbread
double-shot
double shoulder lock
double-shuffle
double shuffle
double-shuffling
double-sided
double-sided dildo
double-sided tape
double-six
double-skin
double-slit experiment
double small pica
doublesome
double-spaced
double spaced
double-space
double space
doublespeak
doublespeaker
double spending
double spread
Double Springs
doublestack
double standard
double standardist
double star
double star system
double steal
double steam
double steamer
double-stop
double stop
double stout
double straddle
double-stranded
double strength
doublestrike
double-struck
double-stuff
double-suicide
double suicide
double summer time
double switch
double tackle
double-take
double take
double takeout
double taker
doubletalk
double-talk
double talk
double-talker
double talker
double-tap
double tap
double tax agreement
double taxation
double-team
double team
double teeth
Double Ten
double-text
double text
double texting
doublethink
double-threaded
doubletime
double-time
double time
doubleton
double tongue
double-tongue
double-tongued
double-tonguing
double top
doubletrack
double-track
double track
double-tracking
double trap
doubletree
double-tree
double tree
double trombone
double-trouble
double trouble
double truck
double turnstile
double-u
double U
double-uncle
double uncle
double-vaccinated
double-vaxxed
double vertical line
double vision
double wedding
doubleweight
double-whammy
double whammy
double whole
double whole note
doublewide
double-wide
doubleword
double X
double yellow line
double yellows
doubloonie
dunder
front double biceps
Gothic double
HE-double-hockey-sticks
HE-double-L
HE-double-toothpicks
law of double negation
mixed doubles
nondouble
optical double
play a double game
quadruple double
rear double biceps
Schläfli double six
semidouble
shared joy is double joy
shotgun double
subdouble
takeout double
test double
the double O
tip the double
triple-double
triple double
two-double
two-line double pica
work double tides
at the double
automatic double
body double
daily double
delusion of doubles
double-count
ground rule double
on the double
quintuple double
snapdragon double
stunt double
syndrome of subjective doubles
turnpike doubles
doublable
double down
double-head
double over
doubler
double up
doubling cube
nondoubling
redouble
undouble
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kaksinkertaistaa
lang: Finnish
word: tuplata
lang: Māori
word: tāpara
lang: Spanish
word: duplicar
lang: Spanish
word: acumular doblemente