Twice vs Before - What's the difference?
twice | before |
Two times.
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In a doubled quantity or extent.
To a doubled degree.
Earlier than (in time).
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
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* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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* (John Ayliffe) (1676-1732)
In store for, in the future of (someone).
* (Thomas Carlyle) (1795-1881)
In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
At a higher or greater position in a ranking.
* (Bible), (w) i. 15
* (Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784)
At an earlier time.
* , chapter=12
, title= In advance.
At the front end.
* 1896 , (Hilaire Belloc), The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts , :
As adverbs the difference between twice and before
is that twice is two times while before is at an earlier time.As a preposition before is
earlier than (in time).As a conjunction before is
in advance of the time when.twice
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.”
Derived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * two-time * twice as small * twice as lessbefore
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Before this treatise can become of use, two points are necessary.
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- His angel, who shall go / Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire.
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
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- If a suit be begun before an archdeacon
- The golden ageis before us.
- He that cometh after me is preferred before me.
- The eldest son is before the younger in succession.
Synonyms
* (earlier than in time) by, no later than * (in front of in space) ahead of, in front of * (in front of according to an ordering system) ahead ofAntonyms
* (earlier than in time) after, later than * (in front of in space) behind * (in front of according to an ordering system) afterAdverb
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- When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a (little) tail behind,
So LARGE a trunk before .