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double
English
- 🔊 having two meanings with intent to deceive“a sly double meaning”
- 🔊 large enough for two“a double bed”
- 🔊 twice as great or many“ate a double portion”
- 🔊 consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs“an egg with a double yolk”
- 🔊 having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities“a double (or dual) role for an actor”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- 🔊 a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base“he hit a double to deep centerfield”
- 🔊 a quantity that is twice as great as another“36 is the double of 18”
- 🔊 someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)“he could be Gingrich's double”
- 🔊 a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts“his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable”
- 🔊 raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2“I decided his double was a bluff”
- 🔊 two together“some people sleep better double”
- 🔊 downward and forward“he was bent double with pain”
- 🔊 to double the degree“she was doubly rewarded”
- 🔊 increase twofold“The population doubled within 50 years”
- 🔊 hit a two-base hit
- 🔊 do double duty“She doubles as his wife and secretary”
- 🔊 bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)
- 🔊 bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain“He doubled and vomited violently”
- 🔊 make or do or perform again“He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick”
Spanish
- 🔊 contrafigura double
- 🔊 doble double
- 🔊 doblete double
- 🔊 doblar to double
- 🔊 doble double, twice as much
- 🔊 reduplicar to double, to reduplicate, to double down (to increase something to double what it was before)