double
- Adjective. Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Adjective. Twice the quantity.
- Adjective. Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Adjective. Designed for two users.
- Adjective. Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Adjective. Stooping; bent over.
- Adjective. Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- Adjective. False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Adjective. Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Adjective. (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Adjective. (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Adverb. Twice over; twofold.
- Adverb. Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double).
- Noun. Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- Noun. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes.
- Noun. A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- Noun. (baseball) A two-base hit.
- Noun. A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
- Noun. A sharp turn, ''especially'' a return on one's own tracks.
- Noun. (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- Noun. (billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. (context, darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Noun. (context, darts) A hit on this ring.
- Noun. (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) in both sides.
- Noun. (computing, programming) Short form of double-precision floating-point number.
- Noun. (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- Noun. (sport) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Verb. To multiply by two.
- Verb. To fold over so as to make two folds.
- Verb. (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- Verb. (transitive) (sometimes followed by ''up'') To clench (a fist).
- Verb. (transitive) (often followed by ''together'' or ''up'') To join or couple.
- Verb. (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- Verb. (intransitive) To play two parts or serve two roles.
- Verb. (intransitive) To turn sharply; following a winding course.
- Verb. (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- Verb. (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- Verb. (context, music) To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- Verb. (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- Verb. (billiards, snooker) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- Verb. (intransitive) (''foll.'' by ''for'') To act as substitute.
- Verb. (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- Verb. (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- Verb. (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
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