Dual vs Cheap - What's the difference?
dual | cheap |
Exhibiting duality; characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
Acting as a counterpart.
Double.
(grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two of something, such as a pair of shoes, in the context of the singular', '''plural''' and in some languages, ' trial grammatical number. Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.
(linear algebra)
(category theory)
Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
(geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V'' vertices and ''F'' faces, the regular polyhedron having ''F'' vertices and ''V faces.
(grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of', ' exactly two of ), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.
(mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
A market; marketplace.
Price.
A low price; a bargain.
* Shakespeare
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
Low and/or reduced in price.
* John Locke
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Of little worth.
* Dryden
(slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) underhand; dubious.
(derogatory) Frugal; stingy.
(obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
(obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
(obsolete) To buy; purchase.
(obsolete) To sell.
As nouns the difference between dual and cheap
is that dual is dual while cheap is trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.As an adjective cheap is
low and/or reduced in price.As a verb cheap is
(obsolete) to trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.As an adverb cheap is
cheaply.dual
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- dual-headed computer
Derived terms
* duality * dualismNoun
(en noun)- The octahedron is the dual of the cube.
See also
* * unal * duelAnagrams
* * * ----cheap
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
Adjective
(er)- Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
