Crossword clues for triple
triple
- Three-bag hit
- Rarity for a lumbering slugger
- Rare hit
- Least common base hit
- Hit that clears the bases
- Hardest hit to get in baseball
- Hardest baseball hit to get
- Diamond feat
- Word with play or threat
- Toughest hit to get in the cycle
- Toughest hit to get in a cycle
- Rare hit for most catchers
- Rare hit for a slow-footed batter
- Racing's ___ Crown
- Part of a cycle, in baseball
- One of Willie Mays's 20 in 1957
- Not double
- It gets you close to home
- Hit that rolls to the wall, maybe
- Hit that goes all the way to the warning track, maybe
- Hardest part of hitting for the cycle
- Good hit
- Get close to home, in a way
- Extra-large drink
- Certain hit
- Big one in baseball
- Big hit in the ballpark
- Bases clearer
- Baseball's toughest hit
- Baseball hit where the runner finishes at the hot corner
- Baseball hit that gets the batter to third base
- Almost make it home
- Achievement that gets someone close to home?
- __ threat: performer who can sing, dance and act
- Big hit in baseball
- Baseball rarity
- Quite a hit
- Not quite a run
- Superlarge drink
- Almost a homer
- Quite a diving somersault
- Rare hit for a slow runner
- Not quite a homer
- One of Ty Cobb's record 295 in the A.L.
- Rare play
- A quantity that is three times as great as another
- A base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
- Three-bagger
- Kind of crown or play
- Long hit at Shea
- Homer's next of kin
- Near-homer
- Crown for Secretariat
- Kind of play or crown
- One of Ty Cobb's record 295 in the A.L
- Nonsense about pound - this could bring better profit
- In three parts
- Three-base hit
- Baseball play
- Baseball feat
- More than double
- Base hit
- Rare baseball hit
- Multiply by three
- Hitter's feat
- Extra-base hit
- Consisting of three
- Almost a home run
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triple \Tri"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tripling.] [Cf. F. tripler. See Triple,
] To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Triple \Tri"ple\, a. [L. triplus; tri- (see Tri-) + -plus, as in duplus double: cf. F. triple. See Double, and cf. Treble.]
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Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
By thy triple shape as thou art seen.
--Dryden. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
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One of three; third. [Obs.]
--Shak.Triple crown, the crown, or tiara, of the pope. See Tiara, 2.
Triple-expansion steam engine, a compound steam engine in which the same steam performs work in three cylinders successively.
Triple measure (Mus.), a measure of tree beats of which first only is accented.
Triple ratio (Math.), a ratio which is equal to 3.
Triple salt (Chem.), a salt containing three distinct basic atoms as radicals; thus, microcosmic salt is a triple salt.
Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity.
Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts.
Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Medieval Latin triplare "to triple," from Latin triplus "threefold, triple," from tri- "three" (see tri-) + -plus "-fold" (see -plus). Related: Tripled; tripling.
early 15c., from Old French triple or directly from Latin triplus (see triple (adj.)). As a noun, early 15c., "a triple sum or quantity," from the adjective. The baseball sense of "a three-base hit" is attested from 1880. Related: Triply (adv.). Triple-decker is from 1940 of sandwiches and wedding cakes, 1942 of beds.
Wiktionary
1 Made up of three related elements, often matching 2 Three times the quantity 3 Designed for three users 4 Folded in three; composed of three layers 5 Having three aspects; very ambiguous. 6 (context music English) Of time, three times as fast as very fast. 7 (context obsolete English) One of three; third. n. 1 (context informal English) A drink with three portions of alcohol. 2 (context US English) A hamburger with three patty. 3 (context baseball English) A three-base hit 4 (context curling English) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play. 5 (context mathematics computing English) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple. v
1 To multiply by three 2 (context baseball English) To get a three-base hit 3 To become three times as large 4 To serve or operate as (something), in addition to two other functions.
WordNet
adj. having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows" [syn: ternary, treble, triplex]
three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase" [syn: treble, threefold]
v. increase threefold; "Triple your income!" [syn: treble]
hit a three-base hit
n. a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base [syn: three-base hit, three-bagger]
a quantity that is three times as great as another
Wikipedia
Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a " treble":
In baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) nor another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.
Triples have become somewhat rare in Major League Baseball. It often requires a ball hit to a distant part of the field, or the ball taking an unusual bounce in the outfield. It also usually means that the batter hit the ball solidly, and be a speedy runner. (The inside-the-park home run is much rarer than a triple). The trend for modern ballparks is to have smaller outfields (often increasing the number of home runs); it has ensured that the career and season triples leaders mostly consist of those who played early in Major League Baseball history, generally in the dead-ball era.
The triple is considered one of the most exciting plays in baseball. A triple is the hardest to achieve in terms of hitting for the cycle (a home run does not have to be "inside the park" to count towards the cycle, though Harry Danning did hit an inside the park home run as part of the cycle).
Triple is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. It was originally published in 1979. The background of the plot is Operation Plumbat, a 1968 operation carried out by Mossad that did not become publicly known about until 1977.
Triple is a 2009 South Korean television series starring Min Hyo-rin, Lee Jung-jae, Yoon Kye-sang, Lee Sun-kyun, and Lee Ha-na. It aired on MBC from June 11 to July 30, 2009 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
Usage examples of "triple".
It was a pretty place, furnished with an assortment of furniture she had chosen for herself years ago--a small brass bedstead, a dressing table of yew and a triple mirror she had discovered in the attics.
She lifted a little silver hammer and bonked her dulcimer a triple bonk of do-sol-do.
Dryad nor anything resembling the Dryad except in the possession of two masts, but a genuine flyer, long and narrow, with a very fine entry, towering masts and a bowsprit of extraordinary length with a triple dolphin-striker, the Bonhomme Richard, that well-known blockade-runner.
Glands, looked exquisitely charming in a creation carried out in green mercerised silk, moulded on an underslip of gloaming grey, sashed with a yoke of broad emerald and finished with a triple flounce of darkerhued fringe, the scheme being relieved by bretelles and hip insertions of acorn bronze.
She sat there with him, munching popcorn while Boris Karloff lumbered through the film in his built-up boots and makeup, and during the commercials, Brewster would become absorbed in double-, triple-, and quadruple-checking some kind of circuit board and switch assembly he had put together on the coffee table.
He took the other, tying triple knots in the thong that held his burse to his belt, loosening his jerkin, swinging his booted feet onto the hard, thin mattress, and pulling up a blanket of surprisingly soft merino.
Benteen Calder wanted to know about the homesteader on the other side of the Triple C boundary.
Triple masted and dragon prowed, it fought the waves with a fury that seemed almost alive.
Stripped of all the technical nomenclature, it basically stated that the Accord microprocessing industry had developed the capability of producing triple minibits which could do the work of Imperial quintuple minibits produced by the Noram microprocessors.
Parchment Paper and Parchment Slates -- Double and Triple Osmotic Parchment -- Utilising Waste Parchment Paper -- Parchmented Linen and Cotton -- Parchment Millboard -- Imitation Horn and Ivory from Parchment Paper -- Imitation Parchment Paper -- Artificial Parchment -- Testing the Sulphuric Acid.
In the dim unhomely light Of the early morningtide, He took the triple key And he laid it by his side.
He did not notice Reynolds doubling and tripling his efforts, clawing, thrashing, slashing and pounding at Saul like some maddened, overwound clockwork toy.
Yet on the other hand, he reflected, the French intelligence services had very soon taken to slipping their own people in among these messengers, or if not their own people then those uneasy particoloured creatures the double or even triple agents, and conceivably the sender of the bones might be one of these.
The EPA can use the fund to clean up the site and then bill the responsible polluter triple the cost of cleanup.
Triple beams of searing energy lanced out from the rifles, and the polychromatic rays struck and clung to the sparkling defense fields.