{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈdəbəl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "PIE word*dwóh₁\nFrom Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Made up of two matching or complementary elements.\nThe closet has double doors.\n1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“ it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Such is not the usage of civilized warfare. Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”\n2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:The Post's proprietor through those turbulent days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account." }, { "mean": "Of twice the quantity.\nGive me a double serving of mashed potatoes." }, { "mean": "Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.\nHe's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother." }, { "mean": "Designed for two users.\na double room" }, { "mean": "Folded in two; composed of two layers." }, { "mean": "Stooping; bent over." }, { "mean": "Having two aspects; ambiguous.\na double meaning" }, { "mean": "False, deceitful, or hypocritical.\na double life\nc. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:\nA fals double tunge is more fiers and fellThen Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,Of fals double tunges in the diſpite." }, { "mean": "Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals." }, { "mean": "(music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.\na double bass" }, { "mean": "(music) Of time, twice as fast." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Twice over; twofold; doubly.\nFebruary 7 1736, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope\nI was double their age." }, { "mean": "Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double)\nThere are only a few beds, so some of the children will have to sleep double for the night." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Twice the number, amount, size, etc." }, { "mean": "A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes\nSaddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles." }, { "mean": "A drink with two portions of alcohol.\nOn second thought, make that a double." }, { "mean": "A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.\n1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he commenced telling about one or the other of the eighteen bears he had killed in his time." }, { "mean": "A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks." }, { "mean": "A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.\nI have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.\nBefore printing the photos, Liam deleted the doubles." }, { "mean": "(baseball) A two-base hit.\nThe catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth." }, { "mean": "(bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract." }, { "mean": "(billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket." }, { "mean": "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.\n2005, Kenneth Brown, ...and I Survived: A Barnardo Boy's Memoir (page 55)\nNot only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well." }, { "mean": "(darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard." }, { "mean": "(darts) A hit on this ring." }, { "mean": "(dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides." }, { "mean": "(computing, programming) A double-precision floating-point number.\nThe sine function returns a double." }, { "mean": "(soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season." }, { "mean": "(rowing) A boat for two scullers." }, { "mean": "(sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.\n2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC‎:DJ Campbell grabbed a second-half double as Blackpool made Sunderland pay for a host of missed chances to secure a fifth away league win of the season." }, { "mean": "(sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.\nIn 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes." }, { "mean": "(historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou." }, { "mean": "(historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.\n1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 196:\nAs for doubles, they are not worth anything now; and I have still got an egg-cupful my mother used to keep handy to give the baker change from a farthing." }, { "mean": "(music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately." }, { "mean": "(Christianity) A double feast." }, { "mean": "Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To multiply by two.\nThe company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.\nOur earnings have doubled in the last year." }, { "mean": "To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.\n1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. , London: Henry Herringman, , →OCLC, stanza 119, page 31:Thus re-inforc’d, againſt the adverſe Fleet / Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.\nTo make a pleat, double the material at the waist." }, { "mean": "(transitive) (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist)." }, { "mean": "(baseball) To get a two-base hit.\nThe batter doubled into the corner." }, { "mean": "(transitive) (often followed by together or up) To join or couple." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To repeat exactly; copy." }, { "mean": "(transitive with as) To serve a second role or have a second purpose.\nA spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive, sometimes with \"for\") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).\n1801 (1803), Francis William Blagdon, Paris as it was and as it is, II, xli, 60:\nLaforêt, who (as the French express it), doubles Lainez, that is, performs the same characters in his absence.\n1814, Elizabeth Hervey, The Mourtray Family, Third Edition, page 31:\n and when she attempted to double the part of her mother, she equally failed in playing the great or agreeable lady." }, { "mean": "(theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).\n1878, lady Isabella Emma E. Schuster, Hands Not Hearts, page 141:\nWhen, therefore, Briggs, the sedate, middle-aged individual, who in the Markham household doubles the roles of butler and valet, makes his appearance, his master affects to be in a great hurry, looks at his watch, and says : \n1916, The Moving Picture World, page 335:\nMiss Theby doubles in the part of Rose and the native girl in the Philippines. This is a problem plot in which a young man leaves the girl of his choice because she has had an affair in her earlier years. He goes to the Philippines, \n1997, Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN:In On the Beat he doubles the parts of a constable and a gang-leader. Norman was all over the place.\n2013, Hy Rothstein; Barton Whaley, The Art and Science of Military Deception, Artech House, →ISBN, page 164:In his case the matter is simplified by the fact that the head of his Deception Staff doubles the roles of author and producer. The Commander therefore tells him what sort of deception he needs, examines the plans produced for him" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course." }, { "mean": "(nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).\n1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, , London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:\nSailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage.\n1719 April 25​, , The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, , 3rd edition, London: W Taylor , published 1719, →OCLC, page 162: though the Iſland itſelf was not very large I found a great Ledge of Rocks lie out about two Leagues into the Sea ſo that I was oblig’d to go a great Way out to Sea to double the Point." }, { "mean": "(music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it." }, { "mean": "(music, intransitive, usually followed by \"on\") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument)." }, { "mean": "(bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract." }, { "mean": "(card games, intransitive) To double down." }, { "mean": "(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.\n1919, W Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers , →OCLC, page 250:\"You double down to the harbour, my lad,\" said the Captain to Strickland, \"and sign on. You've got your papers.\"Strickland set off at once, and that was the last Captain Nichols saw of him." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.\nSorry, this store does not double coupons." }, { "mean": "(military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two." }, { "mean": "(radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.\nCould you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you." }, { "mean": "(espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.\n1973, National Lampoon (page 12)\nWas this simply the cover name of an Allied spy-code named the Brass Monkey? 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