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[ noun ] (baseball) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
Synonyms Examples he hit a double to deep centerfield" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Three were doubles , Brooks_Robinson getting a pair and Marv_Breeding one . In the ninth , Robinson led off with his second double of the night , a blast off the fence 375 feet deep into left . Then Robinson slammed a long double to left center to score both runners . `` Take a ride on this one '' , Brooks_Robinson greeted Hansen as the Bird third_sacker grabbed a bat , headed for the plate and bounced a third inning two run double off the left centerfield wall tonight . It was the first of two doubles by Robinson , who was in a mood to celebrate . Related terms |
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[ verb ] increase twofold
Synonyms Examples "The population doubled within 50 years" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Gracias '' , I hollered , my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary . |
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[ adjective ] having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
Examples "a double (or dual) role for an actor" "the office of a clergyman is twofold public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Mark asked , and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road , the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came_down . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
Examples "an egg with a double yolk" "a double (binary) star" "double doors" "dual controls for pilot and copilot" "duple (or double) time consists of a multiple of two beats to a measure" Used in print ("Editorials"...)The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy , Moscow is a crowded city , and the creed of communism deplores waste . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)They went to the Flea_Market , expecting to find the treasures of Europe , and found instead a duplication of that long double row of booths in Tours . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)The double meaning in the anatomical made it a familiar vaudeville device , as in the gags of Weber and Fields . Indefinite reference also carries double meaning where an allusion to one person or thing seems to refer to another . Another brand of indefinite reference arises out of the use of the double verb . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] twice as great or many
Examples "ate a double portion" "the dose is doubled" "a twofold increase" Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)In some neighborhood of an isolated tangent point in the f-plane , say **f , the function **f is either double valued or has no values defined , except at the tangent point itself , where it is single valued . In the third category the function is double valued in this interval . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)She was the only kind of Negro Laura_Andrus would want around : independent , unservile , probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework - and doubly efficient . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (baseball) hit a two-base hit, in baseball
Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding , along with Robinson , the two Birds who got a pair of hits , doubled to right center , moved to third on Russ_Snyder 's single to right and crossed on Kunkel 's wild_pitch into the dirt in_front of the plate . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The Bears added two more in the fifth when McAuliffe dropped a double into the leftfield corner , Paschal doubled down the rightfield line and Cooke singled off Phil_Shartzer 's glove . |
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[ verb ] bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
Synonyms Examples "He doubled and vomited violently" Used in print (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)Then , as he doubled , gasping , vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten , Lord straightened him with an uppercut . Related terms |
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[ verb ] do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
Examples "She doubles as his wife and secretary" Used in print (Hal Kelly, "Build Hotei"...)The aft cockpit has a * * f storage bin over six feet long that doubles as a seat . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make or do or perform again
Synonyms Examples "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" Related terms reproduce recapitulate reduplicate copy repetition replication repeater recidivist |
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[ adverb ] downward and forward
Examples "he was bent double with pain" |
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[ noun ] (film) a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
Synonyms Examples "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" Related terms |
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[ noun ] someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
Synonyms Examples "he could be Gingrich's double" "she's the very image of her mother" |
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[ adjective ] (genetics) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
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[ adverb ] two together
Examples "some people sleep better double" |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 27774
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