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English Definitions
double
N
a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
double
N
a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
double
N
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
double
N
a quantity that is twice as great as another
double
N
raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
double
V
increase twofold
double
V
hit a two-base hit
double
V
bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
double
V
do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
double
V
bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)
double
V
make or do or perform again
double
having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
double
consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
double
twice as great or many
double
used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
double
used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
double
large enough for two
double
having two meanings with intent to deceive
double
downward and forward
double
to double the degree
N
a spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries
double back
V
retrace one's course
N
notation marking the end of principal parts of a musical composition; two adjacent bar lines
double bass
N
largest and lowest member of the violin family
N
the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family
double bed
N
a bed wide enough to accommodate two sleepers
N
(psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful
V
shoot two strokes under par
N
a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed; designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results
V
to shoot two strokes over par
double boiler
N
two saucepans, one fitting inside the other
N
a covalent bond in which two pairs of electrons are shared between two atoms
double check
N
something that checks the correctness of a previous check
double chin
N
a fold of fatty tissue under the chin
N
a clinch with two loops
N
fresh soft French cheese containing at least 60% fat
N
cream with a fat content of 48% or more
N
a kind of crochet stitch
double crochet
V
make by double stitching
double cross
N
an act of betrayal
double cross
V
betray by double-dealing
N
a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
N
twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to
N
a date in which two couples participate
N
a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
N
a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
N
a two-digit integer; from 10 to 99
N
someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension)
N
two incomes received from the same source (as by holding a government job and receiving a government pension)
English Definitions from WordNet 3.0
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