Again vs Twice - What's the difference?
again | twice |
(label) Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.
* 1526 , The Bible , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 2:
Back (to a former place or state).
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), chapter=19
, title= (label) In return, as a reciprocal action; back.
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* , II.31:
* , I.2.4.vii:
* 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
Another time; once more.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again';
* , chapter=1
, title= * 1931 , Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
* 1979 , Charles Edward Daniels et al., “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (song), Million Mile Reflections , Charlie Daniels Band, Epic Records:
* 2010 , Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian , 30 October:
Over and above a factor of one.
* 1908 December 10, , “New Genera and Species of Crinoids”, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , Volume XXI,
# Tell me again, say again;
# I ask again, I say again;
# Here too, here also, in this case as well;
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(label) In any other place.
(label) On the other hand.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564–1616)
Moreover; besides; further.
* (rfdate) Hersche
(obsolete or dialectal) Against.
* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
* 1924 , J H Wilkinson, Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore , page 60
* 2003 , Glasgow Sunday Herald, page 16, column 2:
Two times.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
* 1934 , (Santa Claus Is Coming to Town)
(nonstandard, proscribed)
* {{quote-book, year=1826, author=John Nicholson, publisher=H.C. Carey & I. Lea
, title=The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume=1
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=TJUAAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22twice%20as%20slow%22&pg=PA78v=onepage&q=%22twice%20as%20slow%22&f=false
, page=78}}
* {{quote-book, title=Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, year=1896, edition=fourth
, page=304, author=Livingston Stone
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* {{quote-book, year=2010, title=Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile, first=Julia, last=Ain-krupa, publisher=ABC-CLIO, page=31
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2Oeo0DmdphwC&lpg=PA31&dq=%22twice%20as%20dumb%22&pg=PA31v=onepage&q=%22twice%20as%20dumb%22&f=false}}
In a doubled quantity or extent.
To a doubled degree.
As adverbs the difference between again and twice
is that again is (label) back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point while twice is two times.As a preposition again
is (obsolete or dialectal) against.again
English
(wikipedia again)Alternative forms
* againe, agayne, ageyne (obsolete); agin (colloquial or humorous)Adverb
(-)- And after they were warned in ther slepe, that they shulde not go ageyne to Herod, they retourned into ther awne countre another way.
The China Governess, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
- but Merlyn warned the kynge couertly that gweneuer was not holsome for hym to take to wyf / for he warned hym that launcelot shold loue her and she hym ageyne
- So women are never angrie, but to the end a man should againe be angrie with them, therein imitating the lawes of Love.
- Thus men are plagued with women, they again with men, when they are of diverse humours and conditions.
- As he lies in the light before a glaring white target, the black upon him shines again .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’
- He tangled in tree-tops again' and ' again / And barely missed hitting a tri-motored plane.
- Johnny said, “Devil, just come on back if you ever want to try again / I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best that’s ever been.”
- The last sentence is so shocking, I have to read it again .
pp.229–230:
- Cirri l-lxxx, 15, about 12mm. long; first two joints short, about twice as broad as long; third about one-third again' [=one and one-third times] as long as broad; fourth and fifth the longest, about half ' again [=one and a half times] as long as broad;.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again , the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- (Francis Bacon)
- The one is my sovereignthe other again is my kinsman.
- Again , it is of great consequence to avoid, etc.
Derived terms
* again and again * again-coming * once againPreposition
(English prepositions)- And here begynneth the treson of Kynge Marke that he ordayned agayne Sir Trystram.
- Ah'd like to wahrn (warn) thi agaan 'evvin owt to dew wi' that chap.
- You may think you are all on the same side, agin the government.
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*Usage notes
The pronunciation /???e?n/ is chiefly poetic. 200 English basic words English sequence adverbs 1000 English basic words ----twice
English
Adverb
(-)- Santa Claus is coming to town. / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice , / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. / Santa Claus is coming to town.
- Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.
- You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.
- Standing in the lower portion of the boat, he apologizes while Krystyna paces above him, saying that he's just like Andrzej, “only half his age and twice as dumb.”
