Crossword clues for doubling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
Doubling \Dou"bling\, n.
The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
--Dryden.(Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
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raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
Syn: double.
Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of double English)
WordNet
n. increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"
raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: double]
Wikipedia
Doubling may refer to:
In psychodrama, doubling is a technique where a participant, perhaps asked by the psychodrama director, supplements the role (self, role reversal) of the protagonist, usually by standing behind them and saying things that the protagonist might want to say or is withholding. The person performing the supplemental role is commonly called the Double. The task of the Double is to provide a link between the patient's internal reality and the external environment. In this way one is able to hear things that may (or not) reflect what they feel or think. Thereby, the doubling can help provoke abreactive and mental catharsis, insight, and transformation.
Doubling is a textile industry term synonymous with combining. It can be used for various processes during spinning. During the carding stage, several sources of roving are doubled together and drawn, to remove variations in thickness. After spinning, yarn is doubled for many reasons. Yarn may be doubled to produce warp for weaving, to make cotton for lace, crochet and knitting. It is used for embroidery threads and sewing threads, for example: sewing thread is usually 6-cable thread. Two threads of spun 60s cotton are twisted together, and three of these double threads are twisted into a cable, of what is now 5s yarn. This is mercerised, gassed (AKA flamed) and wound onto a bobbin.
Usage examples of "doubling".
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 dogs were with herNorton bounding ahead and doubling back again, Bummer chasing the waves at her feet.
Doubling to and fro among forests and swamps, he insisted, was the only possible path of access to the undiscovered Coquina hills of Florida.
By then CK has Doby against the far wall and he measures him with a hard left, kidney punch, doubling him over.
TV chasing Frisbees, the collie leaped up, often doubling back on himself in midair, landing flyless and barking his frustration at them.
Then Andrea saw the geese paddling toward her, doubling up their necks every few seconds.
She was coming unravelled in front of him, the slow burn of her shock overriding common sense to such an extent that she patted a bulging pocket and tossed her map into a bin, doubling back barely fifty paces before hanging a left into a blind alley so narrow it was more of a gap between the Suq el Meghreb and a neighbouring warehouse.
Insect threat, as blue-grey silhouettes moved across the room, doubling when bright Tiercel, the morning star, rose.
Whether, now that our children are growing up, and our income is doubling and trebling year by year, we ought to widen our circle of usefulness, or close it up permanently within the quiet bound of little Longfield.
While we waited for the finding and unharbouring of the hart, while I held myself in readiness for the chase and listened for the baying of the scent, while we followed the ruses and doublings of the quarry as he ran back on his own tracks to strengthen the scent then bounded sideways to confuse the hounds or entered and left the streamlets that run through the woods so as to break his traces, while I galloped with the others and followed the sound of the horn and shouted with all the power of my lungs and ducked the low branches, amidst all this hullabaloo and headlong career, I still drifted on the dark lake, still heard the words of love and promise she had given me, still felt the ring where it lay threaded against my breastbone.
In the movie, an especially hypocritical and corrupt police inspector accomplishes this by doubling as a pimp and a landlord for a eunuch-transvestite brothel on Falkland Road.
The growth was geometrical: two, four, eight, sixteen, a doubling every time, rapidly exponentiating away to large numbers, astronomical numbers.
I took all the gold I found, and playing the martingale, and doubling my stakes continuously, I won every day during the remainder of the carnival.
He did not notice Reynolds doubling and tripling his efforts, clawing, thrashing, slashing and pounding at Saul like some maddened, overwound clockwork toy.
After a number of doublings, the prokaryote is programmed to self-destruct.