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Doubles vs Doublet - What's the difference?

doubles | doublet |

As nouns the difference between doubles and doublet

is that doubles is while doublet is a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves men in europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.

doubles

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • (sports, plurale tantum) a game between pairs of players
    • Seeing as we've got four people, let's play doubles .
  • (campanology, plurale tantum) bell changes rung on five bells
    • A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.
  • A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.

    • Derived terms

    * mixed doubles

    Verb

    (head)
  • (double)
    • The population doubles every ten minutes.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    doublet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
  • a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  • (linguistics) one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes (e.g., toucher'' and ''toquer'' in French or ''yard'' and ''garden in English).
  • (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
  • (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
  • (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
  • (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.
  • (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes
  • (botany) A very small flowering plant,
  • A word ladder puzzle.
  • An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
  • * 1855 , Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope
    • The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye
  • Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
    • to throw doublets
  • (uncountable) A game somewhat like backgammon.
    • (Halliwell)

    Quotations

    ; jacket * 1602 : , act 2 scene 1 line 75 *: Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, *

    See also

    * homolog * pair * twin (coefficient)