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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
double
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a double bed (=a bed for two people)
▪ Would you like a double bed or twin beds?
a double bedroom (=with a big bed for two people)
▪ I'd like to book a double bedroom for two nights, please.
a double celebration (=for two good things)
▪ It’s a double celebration for our first wedding anniversary and my birthday.
a double chin (=loose skin under your chin that looks like a second chin)
▪ Frank was much fatter now and he had a double chin.
a double meaning (=two meanings at the same time)
▪ Everything he said had a double meaning.
a double portion (=twice as large as a normal one)
▪ I ordered a double portion of chicken.
a double shift (=when someone works two shifts one after the other)
▪ He is only halfway through a 20-hour double shift.
a double/two-car garage (=for two cars)
▪ The house had a double garage.
a number doubles (=becomes twice as big)
▪ The number of road accidents has doubled in the last ten years.
approach/reach/go into etc double figures
▪ The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.
bent double (=with the top part of your body leaning forward towards your legs)
▪ He breathed in deeply, bent double in pain .
body double
double act
double agent
double bass
double bed
double bill
double bind
double bluff
double boiler
double chin
double click
double creamBritish English, heavy cream American English (= thick cream)
double cream
double date
double dealer
double digits
▪ Sam’s team scored in the double digits in nine out of ten games.
double duty
▪ The sofa does double duty as a guest bed.
double entendre
double fault
double feature
double figures
▪ King’s was the only other score in double figures.
double first
double glazing
double helix
double in value
▪ The house doubled in value over two years.
double indemnity
double jeopardy
double life
▪ Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
double negative
double play
double quick
▪ Call an ambulance double quick!
double spacing (=lines with one empty line after each one)
double standard
double take
double time
double vision (=when you see two of everything around you)
▪ One of the symptoms of the illness is double vision.
double vision
double whammy
▪ the double whammy of higher prices and more taxes
double yellow lines (=two lines of paint that mean you cannot park there at any time)
in double figures (=between 10 and 99)
▪ Only two of the group had scores in double figures.
lead a double life (=deceive people by keeping different parts of your life separate and not letting anyone know the whole truth)
▪ Joe had been leading a double life, seeing an ex-model while his wife believed he was on business.
lead/live a double life
▪ Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
mixed doubles
reach double/six etc figures (=be 10 or more/100,000 or more etc)
▪ The death toll in the region has reached five figures.
scored in the double digits
▪ Sam’s team scored in the double digits in nine out of ten games.
single/double room (=a room in a hotel for one person or for two)
▪ I’d like to book a double room for two nights.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
album
▪ As an Eric Clapton fan, I recommend this double album without the slightest hesitation.
▪ There are certainly far more double albums out there that are worse.
▪ A double album of greatest hits and misses, which concentrates on their later years.
▪ A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.
▪ I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album!!
bed
▪ Liz Norton Both the YC-5 and YC-6 can be used for double bed knitting.
▪ A double bed with starched white sheets covering a too-soft mattress fills most of the space.
▪ Choose either a suite with double bed or large suite with double bed plus double bed settee for one or two children.
▪ I looked longingly at the bed, but it was a double bed.
▪ Bedroom with two single beds which makes a double bed if required.
▪ We squashed side by side in the small double bed which I shared with Grandma when she came to stay.
▪ Harriet had put them in her smaller guest-room which had a double bed.
▪ John feels it's the double bed that worries his Dad, not the puppet.
bill
▪ But sometimes a double bill would show at the Ritz and nowhere else.
▪ He guessed they were on their way to Badstoneleigh because of the double bill at the Pavilion.
▪ A double bill in the afternoon.
▪ In the early 1960s one result of shrinking cinema audiences was the Sunday double bill of low budget horror movies.
▪ Now that's a double bill.
door
▪ I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside.
▪ One of the double doors opened and a nurse peered out.
▪ He followed her as they approached the green-and-gold-painted double doors leading to the ballroom.
▪ His knock sounded the emptiness of the rooms behind the double doors.
▪ To the right, open double doors hinted at shadowy figures.
▪ The double doors stood partly open.
▪ Several of the Lancre guests were glancing at the big double doors, shut for this official ceremony.
▪ He joined the slow column heading out of the double doors of the Kitchen.
garage
▪ To the right there was a ramp down to a double garage on basement level.
▪ Each Hadon home has a double garage.
▪ It includes master bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further bedrooms, second bathroom, gas central heating, double garage.
▪ The house had a double garage which Millar turned into a study and office.
▪ It was the size of a double garage, open on one side, built of stone and roofed with tiles.
▪ Number forty-seven was a huge red-brick house in gracious grounds, with a double garage and parking space for three more cars.
▪ A coach-house of slightly later vintage served as a double garage.
meaning
▪ This gives a double meaning to Blanche's hatred of naked light.
▪ Old rivalries are barely submerged and every quip has a deadly double meaning.
▪ No, there was no double meaning in what he'd said.
▪ Sniggers and the double meanings surrounded the subject which was one of the biggest taboos in our society.
murder
▪ Why would a double murder in Cologne have been passed to counter-intelligence?
▪ News of a double murder trial filled the papers.
▪ He wondered what Berowne was expecting him to do; find a potential blackmailer or investigate him for double murder?
▪ Convicted of a brutal rape and double murder, he claims innocence, but is a hate-filled racist.
▪ No one has claimed responsibility for the double murder.
▪ Danilov's double murder looks small beer in comparison.
room
▪ We can also book twin or double rooms in nearby houses for your sole use for a £55 supplement.
▪ She was in a double room.
▪ The door closed behind Tweed as he scanned the luxuriously furnished double room which overlooked Albemarle Street.
▪ It features 10 shower rooms, five single day rooms with showers and a double room with shower.
▪ On Friday 1 June and Saturday 2 June there are no single or double rooms available.
▪ Beds in a double room are $ 18. 25 and a single room is $ 36. 50.
▪ A double room at the 100room former home of the Havelock-Allan family is £98.
▪ If you were sleeping with me, I'd have booked a double room.
standard
▪ No wonder this Government is so despised - Major's double standards smack of deviousness.
▪ Patricia Schroeder of Colorado remains a cautionary symbol of the unfair double standard in the let-your-emotions-all-hang-out department.
▪ This double standard of mores and values between attitudes to men and women was evident throughout the survey.
▪ The double standard that divided the privileged and the poor, men and women, educated and uneducated was pervasive.
▪ This is a double standard which fails to interpret fairly an important aspect of male-female differences.
▪ There seem to be double standards at work here.
▪ In practice, of course, twelfth-century society adopted a double standard on the subject.
▪ With blatant double standards such as this, the West's claim of taking a moral and ethical stand is vacuous.
thickness
▪ Turn out the cake and wrap in a double thickness of greaseproof and foil until ready to decorate.
▪ They are then retained on the sail by tape made into double thickness tags.
▪ Stand tins on a baking tray lined with a double thickness of brown paper.
▪ The frill is obtained by sewing a channel through a double thickness of fabric below the top of the curtain.
▪ Cut round the design through the double thickness of paper.
▪ He pulled the double thickness of the cloak tighter around him and wondered briefly why he had not worn his hiking clothes.
▪ For a round neck, the band can be single or double thickness but a V-neck band can only be single thickness.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do a double take
▪ Colleagues and friends often walked past me in the hallway, then stopped and did a double take.
▪ He had to do a double take, bumping into a filing cabinet.
▪ When he got to Mrs Luegerhe had never known her first name-he did a double take.
do double duty
▪ Choose a sofa that will do double duty as a guest bed.
double-page spread/centre spread
double/triple whammy
▪ After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
▪ Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.
▪ Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.
▪ In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.
▪ Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?
see double
▪ Selma complained of seeing double.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Double rooms cost $80, single rooms are $50.
▪ A double brandy, please.
▪ a double cheeseburger
▪ I ordered fish and a double portion of chips.
▪ I pushed the double doors open and walked into the office.
▪ Last year she suffered the double blow of losing her father and discovering that she had cancer.
▪ Leave the dough in a warm place to rise until it is double in bulk.
▪ Mortensen had a double motive for going to San Francisco: to see his kids and to apply for a job.
▪ She's doing a double major in political science and economics.
▪ She drove over the double yellow line and crashed head-on into a truck.
▪ The band has just released a new double album.
▪ The report and photographs fitted nicely onto a double page.
▪ The room contained a double bed, a wardrobe, and a small chest of drawers.
▪ These classes are taught over a double class period by one teacher.
▪ You cannot park on double yellow lines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Before talking about the types of window you can choose, let's look briefly at the question of double glazing.
▪ During this time the best double petunias were named varieties raised from cuttings.
▪ He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy.
▪ It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector.
▪ Johnson had not scored in double figures in the first five games.
▪ President Clinton's nomination represents a double snub say critics.
▪ The house had a double garage which Millar turned into a study and office.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mixed
▪ There were four competitions: men's singles, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
▪ Because I must have been noticed, I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles.
▪ On Sunday play starts with the mixed doubles at 9am with the men's open singles starting at 10am.
▪ Among the guests, with girl-friend Babs Feltus, was some one who also knows about mixed doubles - Boris Becker.
■ VERB
complete
▪ He completed his personal Test double, by scoring six runs. 5.
▪ Boro goalkeeper Stephen Pears has completed a notable double.
▪ And who completed the Test double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in his last match as captain? 11.
▪ There, Arazi asserted his superiority, prompting Corals to quote him 4-1 to complete the Kentucky-Epsom Derby double.
play
▪ Because I must have been noticed, I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles.
▪ Harriet played in tennis doubles and her public school boyfriends crowded in to eat her jam tarts.
win
▪ In 1883 she and Ann won the consolation doubles at the Northern Championships in Manchester.
▪ Knox also won the doubles championship, teaming with Claire Curren.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stunt double
▪ Caroline is virtually her mother's double.
▪ Goodrich worked as a double for John Wayne.
▪ Hrbek led the inning with a double.
▪ Rooms cost $95 for a double.
▪ Three whiskeys, please - two singles and one double.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Double success at Engineering Two awards in quick succession have earned Courtaulds Engineering a gratifying safety double.
▪ Had the ball landed, Johnson had a double or perhaps his fifth triple.
▪ If you roll two doubles for distance then the horses collapse with exhaustion and the model is removed from the battle.
▪ Southern League Champions, Oxford are after the double.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Ospreys have been recorded annually since 1947, except in 1948, but since 1961 numbers have almost doubled.
▪ Peristaltic garments could almost double blood flow in healthy subjects.
▪ Imports of capital goods rose 50. 7 percent and consumer goods almost doubled in 1995, it said.
▪ The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space.
▪ The New York gallery will be expanded to almost double its present size, to19,000 square feet.
▪ General mobilization was designed to raise the strength to 32 million, but this number was almost doubled in 1914.
▪ If your design is in three of four colours, then the amount of memory needed is almost doubled.
back
▪ They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car.
▪ The way moves cast, and then doubles back, labyrinth-like, to head north and up the stairs.
▪ There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them.
▪ But our dinner doubled back away from the marksmen and headed over a ridge.
▪ He doubled back to tell Holly she had written a nice piece on Donaldson.
▪ But Vicenza was half way from Venice to Verona, so if they did that they would all be doubling back.
effectively
▪ In April IR35 effectively doubled my tax burden.
nearly
▪ Average incomes have nearly doubled, from $ 1,300 to $ 2,500.
▪ And the re-enlistment rate for first-term mechanics had nearly doubled.
▪ The party nearly doubled its support to 21.5 percent in communal elections in Carinthia on March 10, 1991.
▪ Their number has nearly doubled since 1947.
▪ Illustrated fundamental problem of ownership-#nearly doubles journeys made.
▪ It nearly doubled his monthly wage, from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.
▪ Vehicle thefts have nearly doubled in two years.
▪ Everyone was polite, cordial, and nearly doubled up with pain.
over
▪ She felt her legs being secured in that position, so she was doubled over to look like a sandwich.
▪ They were doubled over, poking at each other, making cryptic comments and bursting again into laughter.
▪ The man doubled over and screamed.
▪ I felt a thump against my abdomen and it became necessary to double over in order to facilitate breathing.
▪ Carrefour faltered, doubling over as the bullet caught him just below the sternum.
▪ Sometimes doubling over in anguish, Vega described her murdered cousin as a beautiful person who has gone to a beautiful place.
▪ The company, whose stock market value has doubled over the past year, is currently valued at about £9700m.
▪ By midnight I was doubled over.
roughly
▪ This roughly doubled the number of known and treated hypertensives in the practice.
▪ Company sales rose 15 percent last year and have roughly doubled every five years.
▪ This roughly doubles the number of young from a spawning.
▪ Candidates who follow the limits could receive roughly double that amount from each donor.
▪ In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled, with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed.
▪ Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.
▪ A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
▪ Summers and Clark also discovered that unemployment insurance roughly doubles the number of people who stay unemployed for more than three months.
up
▪ Its small form factor allows two computers, in close proximity, to double up on the 10BaseT hub.
▪ Men can double up on all three groups.
▪ All the grooms doubled up with laughter.
▪ He was still doubled up and he had his head in his hands.
▪ A good whack gives a bad ache and may even double up your opponent.
▪ They pull the woman, who is trying to stay doubled up, towards the door.
▪ The highlander doubled up, eyes crossed and streaming.
▪ Everyone was polite, cordial, and nearly doubled up with pain.
virtually
▪ With increased services the company has virtually doubled its employees from 6,500 a decade ago to more than 13,000 today.
▪ Her sister Jean also had osteoporosis, and she was virtually doubled up when she died, aged 80.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Since February buyers have taken up 1.5m bales, double the amount in the same period last year.
▪ It has just about doubled the amount of candidates.
▪ If the Tories were elected Mr Streeter would double the amount of the bilateral aid budget that goes to the charities.
▪ Candidates who follow the limits could receive roughly double that amount from each donor.
▪ After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced.
▪ Her only other suggestion was to double the amount of vanilla, to give it a flavor boost.
bill
▪ Energy costs have also hit hard: some mid-westerners' heating bills have nearly doubled in a year.
capacity
▪ Expansion plans announced over the weekend will enable the company to double its manufacturing capacity.
▪ The second generation will double that capacity.
▪ The scheme will nearly double the seating capacity of the stadium, creating an additional 7,650 seats.
▪ With Stacker 3.0 it's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package's customisable compression features.
▪ The Morestore can be expanded by the simple addition of a module unit, which doubles the storage capacity.
▪ The new satellite will double the country's capacity for information gathering from space.
▪ The brewhouse he installed then is now being replicated in mirror image to double that capacity.
▪ A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
cost
▪ Equipping a plant to cope with carbon dioxide is likely to double its cost.
▪ We are also paying less for clothes but housing and motoring have doubled in cost.
figure
▪ By 1972, that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase.
▪ This year, he expects that figure to double.
▪ On the benchmark figure that is about double what it should be.
▪ The figure, double that of the previous year, is blamed on the vast increase in the use of the internet.
▪ At Liverpool John Moores University, the figure has doubled since 1989.
▪ By 1957 this figure had doubled to 4 million and by 1961 had trebled to 6 million.
income
▪ Automobile workers had doubled their incomes and expanded their skills.
▪ Perhaps that way, he thought, he might even be able to double his income.
▪ That sum doubles their monthly income.
▪ Clare doubled her income overnight, and felt that she was doing a useful job.
▪ In just one year, they had doubled their income.
market
▪ Sharp cuts in its prices in the autumn doubled its market share, but lowered profits.
membership
▪ Membership To double the current membership in ten years.
money
▪ New Scientist said that the government was planning to double its money for space in the next few years.
▪ Clever inventions and innovations that merely double your money would not make the cut anymore.
▪ Control has almost doubled its money.
▪ He more than doubled his money.
▪ Bishop David has already appealed to us to double the money we give to the Church wherever we can.
number
▪ Ospreys have been recorded annually since 1947, except in 1948, but since 1961 numbers have almost doubled.
▪ Their number has nearly doubled since 1947.
▪ This number is projected to double by 2021.
▪ General mobilization was designed to raise the strength to 32 million, but this number was almost doubled in 1914.
▪ Twenty years later the number of primaries doubled to thirty-two, electing 71 percent of the convention delegates.
▪ Each time the cells divide, the number of cells doubles.
▪ The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled, reaching 2,020 in 1938, five times the level reported ten years earlier.
numbers
▪ Not only have tigers doubled in numbers, but other species and habitats have benefited.
▪ Because it was single-sided, the groove pitch was doubled to allow two numbers on each disc.
▪ They would double the numbers against you.
population
▪ Between 1898 and 1930 the population of Chicago doubled, to become some three million people.
▪ Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled, urban population tripled and national income more than tripled.
▪ Demographers project that its population will double in size within a generation.
▪ Combined with industrial and commercial developments, it enabled Catalonia to support a population that doubled within the eighteenth century.
price
▪ They cost around £60a-week, but if there's been a baby boom in the area prices can double!
▪ Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
▪ Imagine how many times restaurants and merchants had to change their posted prices during the inflationary 1970s, when prices almost doubled.
▪ Price controls were lifted from 85 percent of goods, causing prices on average to double in the course of January alone.
▪ Not only was admission going to increase, the price of popcorn was doubling to a dime.
▪ Sharp cuts in its prices in the autumn doubled its market share, but lowered profits.
▪ While whole bean prices more than doubled, gourmet coffee bars pushed up their prices by a far lower percentage.
profit
▪ Thorn's shares shot ahead 20p to 848p on the news that it had almost doubled annual profits to £289.9m.
▪ The chain of recreational-vehicle and boat stores posted fiscal 1995 earnings of 20 cents a share, doubling the year-earlier profit.
▪ It took us three years to do it, but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits.
▪ Exxon Mobil, Shell and Texaco have also nearly doubled profits in that period.
▪ Harry Potter continues to spin his magic, doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
rate
▪ A doubling of the set-aside rate is not good news, coming at a time when every penny counts.
▪ In 1990, Tucson had a poverty rate 40 percent higher than Phoenix and almost double the rate of Las Vegas.
▪ Meanwhile Hughes is hoping to double his strike rate for Northern Ireland.
▪ Last year it was increased by 20 percent across the three engine capacity bands - double the inflation rate.
▪ A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation.
▪ They will roughly double their peeking rates from 10 to 20 peeks per minute following disturbance by a cat.
sale
▪ The Mintel report predicted sales would more than double again by the end of 2000.
▪ Dataquest predicts that world chip sales will more than double to about $ 331 billion by the year 2000.
▪ Soon InterCity were claiming that sales had doubled to 5 million a year.
▪ Encouraged by friendlier tax treatment, U.K. sales could double between now and 1997.
share
▪ Sharp cuts in its prices in the autumn doubled its market share, but lowered profits.
▪ Lockheed Martin has said it wants to double its share of the satellite launch market to 50 percent.
size
▪ Enterprise also plan to expand their estate by acquiring more pubs, aiming to double in size by 1996.
▪ Cover and let rise about 1 hour or until nearly doubled in size.
▪ Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century.
▪ Cover and allow to rise until the dough has doubled in size or is cresting over the bread pans.
▪ It covers the years of acquisition from 1986 to 1989 and almost doubles the size of the collection.
▪ Cover and proof until doubled in size, about 45 minutes to 1 1 / 2 hours.
▪ Now it is doubling the size of its Stelrad baths, boilers and radiators division with the Caradon purchase.
▪ Management was planning to spend $ 1 million to double the size of the tipping floor, where the trucks unloaded.
space
▪ The firm is also doubling its floor space as of June 15 when it adds adjacent offices in Marlborough to its plot.
▪ By 1996, the group plans to inject £85m and double its airport retailing space.
▪ The museum is already preparing for a huge building project that will almost double its exhibition space.
▪ New Scientist said that the government was planning to double its money for space in the next few years.
▪ The expansion nearly doubles the library's space.
value
▪ Those in mint condition have doubled in value over the last two years to around £50.
▪ Those certificates nearly doubled in value within hours after the appeals court decision was announced last summer.
▪ If Jamie Mitchell filled his rust bucket up with petrol, it'd double the value.
▪ But for it to get back to $ 20 it has to double in value, going up 100 percent.
▪ Low income families would be compensated by doubling the value of child benefit over the life of a parliament.
▪ How do you double the value of a Trabant, for instance?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do a double take
▪ Colleagues and friends often walked past me in the hallway, then stopped and did a double take.
▪ He had to do a double take, bumping into a filing cabinet.
▪ When he got to Mrs Luegerhe had never known her first name-he did a double take.
do double duty
▪ Choose a sofa that will do double duty as a guest bed.
double-page spread/centre spread
double/triple whammy
▪ After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
▪ Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.
▪ Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.
▪ In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.
▪ Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Building costs have doubled since then.
▪ In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size.
▪ Ralph doubled up his blankets and put them at the foot of the bed.
▪ The federal government has doubled its tax on liquor.
▪ The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.
▪ Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.
▪ Cleverly used it will double, treble, even quadruple the size.
▪ In all the nine studies of monitoring, the number of cesarean deliveries was doubled in the group that was monitored.
▪ In Leicester youth court, the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates.
▪ Quarterly losses at Freeserve, Britain's biggest internet service provider, doubled to nearly $ 27m.
▪ So the thought of watching a film in which he doubles, triples and quadruples was frankly a most scary prospect.
▪ The bass may however, always be doubled at the octave below if desired.
▪ The mess deck doubles as the movie lounge, with a video library housing thousands of films.
IV.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Kasparov knows full well, the years count double once a chess player passes 35.
V.predeterminer
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Over 30% of marriages end in divorce, which is double the number 20 years ago.
▪ The house is now worth double the amount we paid for it.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Double

Double \Dou"ble\, v. i.

  1. To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.

    'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles.
    --T. Burnet.

  2. To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.

    Doubling and turning like a hunted hare.
    --Dryden.

    Doubling and doubling with laborious walk.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

    What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double.
    --J. Webster.

  4. (Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.

    To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.

Double

Double \Dou"ble\, n.

  1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

    If the thief be found, let him pay double.
    --Ex. xxii. 7.

  2. Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.

  3. That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.

    Rolled up in sevenfold double Of plagues.
    --Marston.

  4. A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.

    These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles.
    --Addison.

  5. A person or thing that is the counterpart of another; a duplicate; copy; (Obs.) transcript; -- now chiefly used of persons. Hence, a wraith.

    My charming friend . . . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him.
    --Atlantic Monthly.

  6. A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute; -- used especially of a person who resembles an actor and takes the actor's place in scenes requiring special skills; as, a stunt double.

  7. Double beer; strong beer.

  8. (Eccl.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
    --Shipley.

  9. (Lawn Tennis) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.

  10. (Mus.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.

Double

Double \Dou"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Doubling.] [OE. doblen, dublen, doublen, F. doubler, fr. L. duplare, fr. duplus. See Double, a.]

  1. To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; as, to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.

    Double six thousand, and then treble that.
    --Shak.

  2. To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.
    --Prior.

    Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands.
    --Tennyson.

  3. To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

    Thus re["e]nforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.
    --Dryden.

  4. To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.

    Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage.
    --Knolles.

  5. (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.

Double

Double \Dou"ble\, adv. Twice; doubly.

I was double their age.
--Swift.

Double

Double \Dou"ble\ (d[u^]b"'l), a. [OE. doble, duble, double, OF. doble, duble, double, F. double, fr. L. duplus, fr. the root of duo two, and perh. that of plenus full; akin to Gr. diplo`os double. See Two, and Full, and cf. Diploma, Duple.]

  1. Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

    Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. -- 2 Kings ii. 9.

    Darkness and tempest make a double night.
    --Dryden.

  2. Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.

    [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.

    With a double heart do they speak. -- Ps. xii. 2.

  4. (Bot.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double. Note: Double is often used as the first part of a compound word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number, quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two. Double base, or Double bass (Mus.), the largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contrabasso or violone. Double convex. See under Convex. Double counterpoint (Mus.), that species of counterpoint or composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by setting one of them an octave higher or lower. Double court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for four players, two on each side. Double dagger (Print.), a reference mark ([dag]) next to the dagger ([dagger]) in order; a diesis. Double drum (Mus.), a large drum that is beaten at both ends. Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. Double flower. See Double, a., 4. Double-framed floor (Arch.), a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed. Double fugue (Mus.), a fugue on two subjects. Double letter.

    1. (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature.

    2. A mail requiring double postage. Double note (Mus.), a note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve. Double octave (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. Double pica. See under Pica. Double play (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. Double plea (Law), a plea alleging several matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. --Stephen. Double point (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called crunodes. The extremity of a cusp is also a double point. Double quarrel. (Eccl. Law) See Duplex querela, under Duplex. Double refraction. (Opt.) See Refraction. Double salt. (Chem.)

      1. A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O.

      2. A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium.

        Double shuffle, a low, noisy dance.

        Double standard (Polit. Econ.), a double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender.

        Double star (Astron.), two stars so near to each other as to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars.

        Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick.

        Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

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double

early 13c., from Old French doble (10c.) "double, two-fold; two-faced, deceitful," from Latin duplus "twofold, twich as much" from duo "two" (see two) + -plus "more" (see -plus). Double standard attested by 1951. Military double time (1833) originally was 130 steps per minute.

double

late 13c., "make double," from Old French dobler, from Latin duplare, from duplus (see double (adj.)). Meaning "to work as, in addition to one's regular job" is c.1920, circus slang, from performers who also played in the band. Related: Doubled; doubling. To double up bodily is from 1814.\n\nA blow on the stomach "doubles up" the boxer, and occasions that gasping and crowing which sufficiently indicate the cause of the injury ....

[Donald Walker, "Defensive Exercises," 1840]

double

mid-14c., "amount twice as great," also "duplicate copy," from double (adj.).

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double

  1. Made up of two matching or complementary elements. adv. 1 Twice over; twofold. 2 Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double) n. 1 Twice the number, amount, size, etc. 2 A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes 3 A drink with two portions of alcohol 4 A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger. 5 A sharp turn, ''especially'' a return on one's own tracks. 6 A redundant item for which an identical item already exists 7 (context baseball English) A two-base hit 8 (context bridge English) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract. 9 (context billiards English) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket. 10 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. 11 (context darts English) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard. 12 (context darts English) A hit on this ring. 13 (context dominoes English) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) in both sides. 14 (context computing programming English) A double precision floating-point number. 15 (context soccer English) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season. 16 (context sports English) The feat of scoring twice in one game. v

  2. 1 To multiply by two. 2 To fold over so as to make two folds. 3 To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. 4 (context intransitive English) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size. 5 (context baseball English) To get a two-base hit. 6 (context transitive English) (sometimes followed by ''up'') To clench (a fist). 7 (context transitive English) (often followed by ''together'' or ''up'') To join or couple. 8 (context transitive English) To repeat exactly; copy. 9 (context intransitive English) To play a second part or serve a second role. 10 (context intransitive English) To turn sharply; following a winding course. 11 (context nautical English) To sail around (a headland or other point). 12 (context music English) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it. 13 (context music intransitive usually followed by "on" English) To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument). 14 (context bridge English) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract. 15 (context card games intransitive English) To double down. 16 (context billiards snooker pool English) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket. 17 (context intransitive English) (followed by ''for'') To act as substitute. 18 (context intransitive English) To go or march at twice the normal speed. 19 (context transitive English) To multiply the strength or effect of by two. 20 (context military English) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. 21 (context radio informal of a station English) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.

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double

  1. adv. downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain"

  2. two together; "some people sleep better double"

  3. to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, twice]

double

  1. v. increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: duplicate]

  2. hit a two-base hit

  3. bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over, double up]

  4. do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary"

  5. bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)

  6. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate]

double

  1. adj. having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn: dual, twofold, treble, threefold]

  2. consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: dual, duple]

  3. twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: doubled, twofold]

  4. used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical" [ant: single]

  5. used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent] [ant: multivalent, univalent]

  6. large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room"

  7. having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: forked]

double

  1. n. a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: two-base hit, two-bagger, two-baser]

  2. a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn: stunt man, stunt woman]

  3. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: image, look-alike]

  4. a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18"

  5. raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling]

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Double (association football)

The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season. The lists in this article examine this definition of a double, while derivative sections examine much less frequent, continental instances. The Double can also mean beating a team both home and away in the same league season, a feat often noted as doing the double over a particular opponent.

The first club to achieve a double was Preston North End in 1889, winning the FA Cup and The Football League in the inaugural season of the league.

The team who holds the record for the most doubles is Linfield of Northern Ireland, with a total of 23.

Double (baseball)

In baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching second base without being called out by the umpire, without the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) or another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.

Double

Double may refer to:

  • Look-alike, a person who closely resembles another person
  • Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
  • Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person
  • Polish Enigma doubles, replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher machines
  • Double, a bet which combines two selections; see Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers#Double
  • Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound
  • Double, a former rank of a liturgical feast in the Roman Rite
Double (band)

Double (Pronounced "doo-bel-ay") was a Swiss music duo best remembered for their hit single " The Captain of Her Heart".

Double (BoA song)

"Double" is BoA's 10th Japanese single and 2nd Korean single. She won at MTV Video Music Awards Japan for best dance video with the music video of this song. It was a number two hit in Japan.

Double (singer)

Double (stylized as DOUBLE) is the stage name for Japanese R&B singer (born March 14, 1975). Double used to be the name for the two member R&B group consisting of Takako and her sister Sachiko. After the death of her sister in May 1999, Takako started her solo career adopting Double as her stage name. Double has been titled as the "Queen of R&B" and is considered to be a pioneer for being the first artist to bring American-style R&B to Japan.

Double (Roch Voisine album)

Double is a 1990 bilingual French / English double album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine as a follow up to the album Hélène. The first CD is all in French, the second all in English. The English tracks were also released as a separate album entitled Roch Voisine.

Double (Zhao Wei album)

Double 双 is a 2005 album by mainland Chinese pop singer Zhao Wei. Its first single, "Still Time for Tomorrow" was the theme song for UNICEF's "Attention for Children Affected by AIDS" campaign .The first week sold more than 150,000 in mainland China.

Double (binary prefix)
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Double (cricket)

A cricketer is said to achieve the double if he scores a thousand or more runs and also takes a hundred or more wickets in first-class matches during the course of a single season. The feat is extremely rare outside England because of the smaller number of first-class matches played in most other countries. It has also become very uncommon in England in recent decades because of the reduction in the first-class programme in favour of more List A matches, last being achieved by Franklyn Stephenson in 1988.

Wilfred Rhodes performed the double more often than anyone else, 16 times. George Hirst achieved the feat on 14 occasions, including a unique "double double" in 1906 of 2385 runs and 208 wickets. Jim Parks senior managed the unique double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets in 1937. Maurice Tate, who scored 1193 runs and took 116 wickets during the MCC tour of India and Ceylon in 1926-27, is the only cricketer to achieve the feat outside England.

The "wicketkeeper's double", of one thousand runs and one hundred dismissals in a season, is very rare, having only been achieved by Les Ames, on three occasions, and by John Murray.

Double (manifold)

In the subject of manifold theory in mathematics, if M is a manifold with boundary, its double is obtained by gluing two copies of M together along their common boundary. Precisely, the double is M × {0, 1}/ ∼  where (x, 0) ∼ (x, 1) for all x ∈ ∂M.

Although the concept makes sense for any manifold, and even for some non-manifold sets such as the Alexander horned sphere, the notion of double tends to be used primarily in the context that ∂M is non-empty and M is compact.

Double (basketball)

In basketball, a double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in one of five statistical categories— points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots—in a game. Multiple players usually score double-digit points in any given basketball game; the double nomenclature is usually reserved for when a player has double-digit totals in more than one category. A double-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in two of the five categories in a game. The most common double-double combination is points-rebounds, followed by points-assists. Since the season, Tim Duncan leads the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the points-rebounds combination with 840, and John Stockton leads the points-assists combination with 714. A triple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in three of the five categories in a game. The most common way to achieve a triple-double is through points, rebounds, and assists. Oscar Robertson leads the all-time NBA list with 181 and is the only player ever to average a triple-double for a season. LeBron James leads the list among active players with 42. A quadruple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in four of the five categories in a game. This has occurred five times in the NBA. A quintuple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in all five categories in a game. Two quintuple-doubles have been recorded by high school girls, but none have occurred in college or professional games. A similar accomplishment is the five-by-five, which is the accumulation of at least five points, five rebounds, five assists, five steals, and five blocks in a game. In the NBA, only Hakeem Olajuwon and Andrei Kirilenko have accumulated multiple five-by-fives since the season.

Double (volleyball)

A double occurs in volleyball when a player, during a match, is credited with scoring at least ten times in one (or more) of five statistical categories: Aces, Kills, Blocks, Digs, and Assists. The term was apparently derived from similar basketball jargon; the expression "triple-double" was coined by former Los Angeles Lakers public relations director Bruce Jolesch in order to showcase Magic Johnson's versatility.

There are four main types of doubles:

  • Double-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in two of the five categories.
  • Triple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in three of the five categories.
  • Quadruple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in four of the five categories.
  • Quintuple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in all five of the five categories.

Of the five statistical categories, double digit match totals are most common for assists, but rare for any positions other than setter. The next most frequent double-digit category is digs, which is most often attained by liberos or defensive specialists, but can be achieved by any strong defensive player. Kills are the third most common double-digit achievement category, occurring predominantly among hitters, especially outside hitters and middle blockers. Likewise, double-digit blocking numbers are preponderantly accomplished by middle blockers or outside hitters, but are much less common than double-digit kills. Rarest by far are double-digit aces, which even the most exceptional server is unlikely to attain once in a career.

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Usage examples of "double".

Guillaume Erard unfolded a double sheet of paper, and read Jeanne the form of abjuration, written down according to the opinion of the masters.

It cannot be classified as a whorl of the double loop type because the formation above the lower loop is too pointed and it also has an appendage abutting upon it at a right angle.

He was an acausal double, a synchronous mirrorself, the echo of the godmind returning from the future, as unconscious of his power as the Delph was aware.

He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.

Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability of the corporation but also an adjudication binding each stockholder therein.

The teams are all looking at variants on a simple, cheap technique that involves putting antigen genes into harmless bacteria that will double as delivery vehicles and adjuvants, then freeze-drying them into spores that can survive tropical heat without refrigeration.

He seemed young to be a General of Division, for such his double embroideries and aigrette proclaimed him.

After a marathon twenty-four hour session, utilising studios One, Two and Three as well as listening rooms 41 and 42, the huge double album was finally mixed and sequenced at 5 p.

Gasping for breath, Alec doubled over and they knocked him down into the half-frozen mud of the street.

Message in hand, Alec galloped half a mile down the road before doubling back through the trees to where Seregil and Micurn were waiting.

The sight of his own visage on that godlike frame thrilled him, and he laughed aloud as he willed his elemental double into battle against Ameer Tukephremo.

One of the latest and warmest of her friends was the brilliant and high-souled Ampere, introduced to her by Ballanche, who had been an intimate friend of his father, and who now loved the son with double fervor, a debt which the grateful young man repaid with interest in a noble tribute to his memory.

The molecule of estrone, for instance, differs from that of androsterone only in the presence of three double bonds and in the absence of carbon-ig.

Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.

As always, our point is that a double standard should not be employed in the evaluation of paleoanthropological evidencean impossibly strict standard for anomalous evidence and an exceedingly lenient standard for acceptable evidence.