double meaning
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[ˈdʌb.əɫ] [-ʌbəɫ] 
US WDouble
- Double may refer to:
- Look-alike, a person who closely resembles another person
- Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
- Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
- Polish Enigma doubles, replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher machines
- Double, a bet which combines two selections; see Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers#Double
- Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound
- Double, a former rank of a liturgical feast in the Roman Rite
FR double 
- NounPLdoubles
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes.
- Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- On second thought, make that a double.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.
- Before printing the photos, Liam deleted the doubles.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- 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.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) in both sides.
- (computing, programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- The sin() function returns a double.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- 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.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- VerbSGdoublesPRdoublingPT, PPdoubled
- To multiply by two.
- The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- VI To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- The batter doubled into the corner.
- VT (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- VT (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- VT To repeat exactly; copy.
- VI To play a second part or serve a second role.
- A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon.
- VI To turn sharply; following a winding course.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (card games) VI To double down.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- VI (followed by for) To act as substitute.
- VI To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- VT To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- Sorry, this store does not double coupons.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.
- To multiply by two.
- Adjective
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- The closet has double doors.
- Twice the quantity.
- Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.
- Designed for two users.
- a double room
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- a double meaning
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- a double life
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- a double bass
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Adverb
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Use double braces to invoke a template in Wikipedia.
- As an application, we show that a family is Zariski equisingular if and only if it is Whitney equisingular and the numbers of cusps and double folds of a generic linear projection are constant on ..
- For double immunostaining, p-NF was combined with periaxin.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of double in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "double" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.