double
/ˈdʌb.əl/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms doubles doubling doubled the Double
- adjective Made up of two matching or complementary elements. “The closet has double doors.”
- adjective Of twice the quantity. “Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.”
- adjective 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.”
- adjective Designed for two (people, cars, etc.). “a double room”
- adjective Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- adjective Stooping; bent over.
- adjective Having two aspects; ambiguous. “a double meaning”
- adjective False, deceitful, or hypocritical. “a double life”
- adverb Twice over; twofold; doubly.
- adverb Two together; two at a time. “When I met the twins, I thought I was seeing double.”
- adverb Into two halves or sections. “The old man was bent double under his heavy burden.”
- noun Twice the number, amount, size, etc. “I did double his sales this month.”
- noun A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes “Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.”
- noun A drink with two portions of alcohol. “On second thought, make that a double.”
- noun Two shifts of work back to back. “I work a double this weekend.”
- noun A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- noun A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- noun A redundant item for which an identical item already exists. “I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.”
- noun (baseball) A two-base hit. “The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.”
- verb (transitive) To multiply by two. “The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.”
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.
Borrowed from French doublé.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Kings ii. 9.
- adjective Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
- adverb Twice; doubly.
- verb To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
Etymology [OE. doble, duble, double, OF. doble, duble, double, F. double, fr. L. duplus, fr. the root of duo two, and perh. that of plenus full; akin to Gr. Two, and Full, and cf. Diploma, Duple.]
Etymology [OE. doblen, dublen, doublen, F. doubler, fr. L. duplare, fr. duplus. See Double, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “double”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details