double
/ˈdʌb.əl/ noun B2- Twice the number, amount, size, etc. · I did double his sales this month.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes · Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol. · On second thought, make that a double.
- Two shifts of work back to back. · I work a double this weekend.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- 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.
- A two-base hit. · The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
Plural doubles
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- double back To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already ...
- double down To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specif...
- double off After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base (a runner) wa...
- double over To bend over deeply at the waist.
- double up To double the quantity, amount or duration of something.
From the library
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size.
All I can say is, that if it be so, ’tis an ill turn, and well deserves to bring double evil on those who have projected it.”
And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.
“It is a double grief to me,” he exclaimed, “that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my own wings.”
Other matches
- double Made up of two matching or complementary elements. A2
- double To multiply by two. B2
- double Twice over C2
- double back To retrace one's steps
- double down To double one's wager, particularly, the name o...
- double off After a fly ball is caught, to tag the base
- double over To bend over deeply at the waist.
- double up To double the quantity, amount or duration of s...
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