double
What is the Definition of double?
Noun:
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
Verb:
- increase twofold
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)
- make or do or perform again
Adjective:
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- or dual
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- binary
- or double
- or a multiple of two
- twice as great or many
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- large enough for two
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
Adverb:
How can I use double in a sentence?
Feeling oddly as though his legs had turned to lead, Harry got into line behind a boy with sandy hair, with Ron behind him, and they walked out of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall.
Neville was bent double, wheezing and spluttering.
Double Potions with the Slytherins, said Ron.
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Double the recipe ingredients. - Удвойте ингредиенты рецепта.
Other meanings of double (synonyms, cognates).
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| double count |
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| double counting |
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| double digit |
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| double digits |
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| double figures |
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| double precision |
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| double sampling |
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| double shift |
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| double standard |
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| double table |
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| double taxation |
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| double word |
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| doubled up |
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| doublet |
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