Double

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English

Adjective

Double (not comparable)

  1. Made up of two matching or complementary elements
  2. Twice the quantity
  3. Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family
  4. Designed for two users.
  5. Folded in two; composed of two layers.
  6. Stooping; bent over.
  7. Having two aspects; ambiguous.
  8. False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
  9. Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
  10. (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
  11. (music) Of time, twice as fast.

Adverb

Double (not comparable)

  1. Twice over; twofold.
  2. Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double)

Noun

Double (plural Doubles)
  1. Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
  2. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
  3. A drink with two portions of alcohol
  4. (baseball) A two-base hit
  5. A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
  6. A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
  7. (bridge (card game)) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
  8. (billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
  9. 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.
  10. (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
  11. (darts) A hit on this ring.
  12. (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) in both sides.
  13. (computing, programming) Short form of double-precision floating-point number.
    The sin() function returns a double.
  14. (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
  15. (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.

Verb

Double (third-person singular simple present doubles, present participle doubling, simple past and past participle doubled)

  1. To multiply by two
  2. To fold over so as to make two folds
  3. (baseball) To get a two-base hit
  4. (transitive) (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
  5. (transitive) (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
  6. (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
  7. (intransitive) To play two parts or serve two roles.
  8. (intransitive) To turn sharply; following a winding course.
  9. (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
  10. (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
  11. (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
  12. (bridge (card game)) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
  13. (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
  14. (intransitive) (foll. by for) To act as substitute.
  15. (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
  16. (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
  17. (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.

Synonyms for Double

Antonyms for Double

single, lone, unique.

Derived terms

Terms derived from double (adjective)
Terms derived from double (verb)

Thesaurus

carbon copy, change, change places with, changeling, circuitousness, circumvent, clone, co-walker, come again, come back, come home, companion, comparison, complicate, concentrate, condense, conduplicate, consolidate, coordinate, copy, corner, counterfeit, counterpart, coupled, crafty, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, crook, crooked, crowd out, cunning, curve, cut out, dead ringer, deceitful, declination, deepen, deflection, departure, deputy, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, dichotomous, digression, discursion, dishonest, disomatous, displace, ditch, ditto, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, do a repeat, do again, do over, dog-ear, dogleg, double back, double for, double over, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doubled, doubleganger, doublehearted, doubling, drift, drifting, duadic, dual, dualistic, dub, duck, dummy, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, duplication, duplicature, duplicitous, dyadic, echo, effigy, elude, enfold, enhance, enlarge, equal, equivalent, errantry, ersatz, escape, eschew, etheric double, evade, exacerbate, exact counterpart, exact likeness, exaggerate, exchange, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, facsimile, faithless, fake, false, false-principled, falsehearted, fellow, fetch, fill in for, fill-in, flection, flexure, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, frill, gather, geminate, geminated, get around, get away from, get out of, ghost, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, go back, go home, hairpin, heat up, hectograph, heighten, homograph, homonym, homophone, hop up, hot up, hypocritical, icon, idem, identical, identical same, idol, image, imitate, imitation, immediately, increase, indirection, infold, ingeminate, insincere, intensify, interfold, jazz up, key up, lap over, lapel, lappet, likeness, living image, living picture, locum tenens, magnify, make complex, makeshift, manifold, match, matched, mate, metaphor, metonymy, microcopy, microfilm, middle, mimeo, mimeograph, miniature, mirror image, mirroring, model, multigraph, multiply by two, next best thing, no other, none other, obliquity, on the run, paired, parrot, pererration, perfidious, personnel, phony, photograph, picture, pinch hitter, pinch-hit, plagiarize, plait, plat, pleat, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply, portrait, proxy, put back, quadruplicate, quickly, quill, quote, rambling, ramify, reciprocal, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reflection, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinforce, relief, relieve, renew, repeat, repetition, replace, replacement, replica, replicate, replication, represent, representation, representative, reproduce, reproduction, resemblance, reserves, return, revive, ringer, rubbing, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, say again, second, second string, secondary, selfsame, semblance, shadow, shake, shake off, sharpen, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shifty, shuffle out of, shun, shy, sign, similitude, simulacrum, skew, skirt, slant, slippery, soup up, spares, spell, spell off, spit, spit and image, spitting image, stand in for, stand-in, stat, step up, straying, strengthen, sub, subrogate, substituent, substitute, substitute for, substitution, succedaneum, succeed, supersede, superseder, supplant, supplanter, supplement, surrogate, swap places with, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, symbol, synecdoche, synonym, tack, the same, the same difference, third string, token, trace, tracing, traitorous, transcribe, treacherous, tricky, triple, triplicate, tuck, turn, turn back, turn over, turning, twain, twice, twill, twin, twinned, twist, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, understudy, understudy for, utility player, variation, veer, veering, very image, very picture, very same, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, wandering, warp, whet, without delay, wraith, yaw, zigzag

Etymology

13th Century. From Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”).

Pronunciation

(in the phrases Double-entendre/double entendres) IPA: /ˈduːblə/

Translations

Adjective

Made up of two matching or complementary elements
Twice the quantity
Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family
Designed for two users
Folded in two; composed of two layers
Stooping; bent over
Having two aspects; ambiguous
False, deceitful, or hypocritical
Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals
in music, of an instrument, sounding an octave lower
in music, of time, twice as fast.

Noun

twice the number or size etc
a person resembling or standing for another
a drink with double amount of alcohol

Verb

to multiply by two
to fold over so as to make two folds
baseball: to get a two-base hit
to clench
to join
to copy
to serve two roles
to turn sharply
nautical: to sail around sthg
music: to duplicate a part
music: to be capable of performing upon an additional instrument
bridge: to make a call that will double certain scoring points
billiards: to cause to rebound from a cushion
to act as substitute
to go at twice the normal speed
to increase by 100%
to multiply the effect or strength of by two

French

Etymology

From Old French doble < Latin duplus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Double (epicene, plural Doubles)

  1. double (all meanings)
    Il s'agit d'une phrase à double sens.

Derived terms

Noun

Double m. (plural Doubles)

  1. Double. (clarification of this French definition is being sought)
    Je n'en avais pas assez, alors j'en acheté le double.
  2. (baseball) double

Verb

Double

  1. first-person singular present indicative of doubler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of doubler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doubler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of doubler
  5. second-person singular imperative of doubler
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