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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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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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(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.
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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).
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(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.
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
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A powerful or influential person.
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A component of certain games.
#The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
#A playing card with the image of a king on it.
#A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
A king skin.
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A male dragonfly; a drake.
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
* 1982 , South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review , Volume 47,
* 2008 , William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth , Introduction,
To rule over as king.
* (William Shakespeare), , Act 2, Scene 4,
To perform the duties of a king.
* 1918 , Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman , Volume 35,
* 2001 , Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning ,
To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
* 1917 , Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself ,
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
* 1957 , Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines ,
* 1986 , Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry ,
To dress and perform as a drag king.
* 2008 , Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia'', in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), ''AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities ,
As a noun double
is .As a proper noun king is
the title of a king.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.
Derived terms
* double down * double over * doubler * double upSee also
* quadruple * quintuple * sextuple * single * triple 1000 English basic words ----king
English
(wikipedia king)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic), (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
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Coordinate terms
* (monarch) emperor, empress, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, viceroy * (playing card) ace, jack, joker, queenDerived terms
* dragonking * King Billy * king cake * king of the hill * kingdom * kingly * kingmaker * kingmanship * King's English * king's ransom * Kingston * priest-kingSee also
* *Verb
(en verb)page 16,
- The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play .
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- One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.
- And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d , / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.
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- He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
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- Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.
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- The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
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- If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.
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- I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged , but I slid my checker back.
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- Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.