Sparrow vs Twice - What's the difference?
sparrow | twice |
The house sparrow, Passer domesticus ; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds.
Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
(UK, chiefly, London) A quick-witted, lively person. Often used in the phrase cockney sparrow .
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* 1878 , Ally Sloper's guide to the Paris exhibition , Charles Henry Ross, p. 54
Two times.
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In a doubled quantity or extent.
To a doubled degree.
As a proper noun sparrow
is .As an adverb twice is
two times.sparrow
English
(wikipedia sparrow)Noun
(en noun)Drama Faces: Martine McCutcheon, BBC
- Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.
- I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow .
Derived terms
* sparrowhawk * house sparrow * (tree sparrow)Synonyms
(checksyns) * spadger, sparra, spuggytwice
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.”