Place vs Double - What's the difference?
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(label) An area; somewhere within an area.
# A location or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# An open space, courtyard, market square.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# A group of houses.
# A region of a land.
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, title= # Somewhere for a person to sit.
# (label) A house or home.
A frame of mind.
(label) A position, a responsibility.
# A role or purpose; a station.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= # The position of a contestant in a competition.
# The position as a member of a sports team.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
* Mather Byles
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
* Bible, (w) viii. 37
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
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, title= To earn a given spot in a competition.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! 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.”
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, title= Twice the quantity.
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Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
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Designed for two users.
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Folded in two; composed of two layers.
Stooping; bent over.
Having two aspects; ambiguous.
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False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
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Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
(lb) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
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(lb) Of time, twice as fast.
Twice over; twofold.
* Jonathan Swift
Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double)
Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
A drink with two portions of alcohol
A ghostly apparition of a living person; .
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
(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.
(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.
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, date=December 28
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool
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(historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
(historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 196:
(music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
To multiply by two.
To fold over so as to make two folds.
To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
* Dryden
To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
(baseball) To get a two-base hit.
(sometimes followed by up ) To clench (a fist).
(often followed by together'' or ''up ) To join or couple.
To repeat exactly; copy.
To play a second part or serve a second role.
To turn sharply; following a winding course.
(nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
* Knolles
* 1719 ,
(music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
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.
To double down.
(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
(followed by for ) To act as substitute.
To go or march at twice the normal speed.
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To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
(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.
As a verb place
is .As a noun double is
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(wikipedia place)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Here is the place appointed.
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
George Goodchild
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] 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.}}
- In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
* courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, moodDerived terms
* abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplaceVerb
(plac)citation, 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.}}
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
Synonyms
* (to earn a given spot) * (to put in a specific location) deposit, lay, lay down, put down * (to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered) * (sense) achieve, make * reach * * (to recruit or match an appropriate person)Derived terms
* placement * place on a pedestalStatistics
*double
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Adjective
(-)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] 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.}}
Derived terms
* double-cross/doublecross * double agent * double bed * double cousin * double date/double-date * double double * double Dutch * double entendre * double exposure * double fault * doublehearted * double life * double meaning * double negative * double strength * double take * double-team * double tongue * double-tongued * double U * double visionSee also
(coefficient)Adverb
(-)- I was double their age.
Noun
(en noun)- Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles .
- On second thought, make that a double .
- The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
- The sin() function returns a double.
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- As 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.
Derived terms
* body double * double-count * see double * stunt doubleVerb
- The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.
- Thus reinforced, against the adverse fleet, / Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.
- Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
- The batter doubled into the corner.
- A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon.
- Sailing along the coast, he doubled the promontory of Carthage.
- I found a great ledge of rocks lie out about two leagues into the sea...so that I was obliged to go a great way out to sea to double the point.
- "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.
- Sorry, this store does not double coupons.
- Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.