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Adjective double has 7 senses
- double, dual, twofold, treble, threefold - 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
Antonym: single (indirect, via multiple)
- double, dual, duple - 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"
Antonym: single (indirect, via multiple)
- double, doubled, twofold - twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase"
Antonym: single (indirect, via multiple)
- double - 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"
Antonym: single
- bivalent, double - used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- double - large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room"
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
- double, forked - having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
Antonyms: unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous (indirect, via equivocal)
Adverbial double has 3 senses
- double - downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain"
- double - two together; "some people sleep better double"
- doubly, double, twice - to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright"
Noun double has 5 senses
- double, two-base hit, two-bagger, two-baser - a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield"
--1 is a kind of base hit, safety, bingle
--1 has particulars: line-drive double, line double
- double, stunt man, stunt woman - a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable"
--2 is a kind of stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in
- double, image, look-alike - someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
--3 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--3 has particulars: ringer, dead ringer, clone
- double - a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18"
--4 is a kind of multiple
- doubling, double - raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"
--5 is a kind of raise
--5 is a part of card game, cards
Verb double has 6 senses
- double, duplicate - increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years"
--1 is one way to multiply, manifold
Sample sentences:
They double their earnings this year
Their earnings double this year
- double - hit a two-base hit
--2 is one way to hit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- double over, double, double up - bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently"
--3 is one way to bend, flex
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Somebody ----s
- double - do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary"
--4 is one way to function, work, operate, go, run
Sample sentence:
It is ----ing
- double - bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)
--5 is one way to bid, call
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Somebody ----s something
- duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate - make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
--6 is one way to reproduce
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Somebody ----s something
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