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| doubling | |
| 1. n. The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two. |  |
| 2. n. The act of turning around, or doubling back. | |
| 3. n. A pleat or fold. | |
| 4. n. (archaic) A trick; double-dealing. | |
| double | |
| 1. adj. Made up of two matching or complementary elements. | |
| The closet has double doors. | |
| 2. adj. Of twice the quantity. | |
| Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes. | |
| 3. adj. Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family. | |
| He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother. | |
| 4. adj. Designed for two users. | |
| a double room | |
| 5. adj. Folded in two; composed of two layers. | |
| 6. adj. Stooping; bent over. | |
| 7. adj. Having two aspects; ambiguous. | |
| a double meaning | |
| 8. adj. False, deceitful, or hypocritical. | |
| a double life | |
| 9. adj. Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals. | |
| 10. adj. (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower. | |
| a double bass | |
| 11. adj. (music) Of time, twice as fast. | |
| 12. adv. Twice over; twofold. | |
| 13. adv. Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double) | |
| 14. n. Twice the number, amount, size, etc. | |
| 15. n. A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes | |
| Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles. | |
| 16. n. A drink with two portions of alcohol. | |
| On second thought, make that a double. | |
| 17. n. A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger. | |
| 18. n. A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks. | |
| 19. n. 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. | |
| 20. n. (baseball) A two-base hit. | |
| The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth. | |
| 21. n. (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract. | |
| 22. n. (billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket. | |
| 23. n. 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. | |
| 24. n. (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard. | |
| 25. n. (darts) A hit on this ring. | |
| 26. n. (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides. | |
| 27. n. (computing, programming) A double-precision floating-point number. | |
| The sine function returns a double. | |
| 28. n. (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season. | |
| 29. n. (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game. | |
| 30. n. (sports) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition. | |
| In 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes. | |
| 31. n. (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou. | |
| 32. n. (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny. | |
| 33. n. (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately. | |
| 34. n. (Christianity) A double feast. | |
| 35. v. To multiply by two. | |
| The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter. | |
| 36. v. To fold over so as to make two folds. | |
| To make a pleat, double the material at the waist. | |
| 37. v. To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. | |
| 38. v. (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size. | |
| Our earnings have doubled in the last year. | |
| 39. v. (baseball) To get a two-base hit. | |
| The batter doubled into the corner. | |
| 40. v. (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist). | |
| 41. v. (often followed by together or up) To join or couple. | |
| 42. v. To repeat exactly; copy. | |
| 43. v. (intransitive) (often followed by as) To play a second part or serve a second role. | |
| A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon. | |
| 44. v. (intransitive) To turn sharply; following a winding course. | |
| 45. v. (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point). | |
| 46. v. (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it. | |
| 47. v. (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument). | |
| 48. v. (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract. | |
| 49. v. (card games, intransitive) To double down. | |
| 50. v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket. | |
| 51. v. (intransitive) (followed by for) To act as substitute. | |
| 52. v. (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed. | |
| 53. v. To multiply the strength or effect of by two. | |
| Sorry, this store does not double coupons. | |
| 54. v. (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. | |
| 55. v. (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference. | |
| Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you. | |
