Double

Adjective

 * 1) Made up of two matching or complementary elements
 * 2) Twice the quantity
 * 3) Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family
 * 4) Designed for two users.
 * 5) Folded in two; composed of two layers.
 * 6) Stooping; bent over.
 * 7) Having two aspects; ambiguous.
 * 8) False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
 * 9) Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
 * 10)  Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
 * 11)  Of time, twice as fast.

Adverb

 * 1) Twice over; twofold.
 * 2) Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double)

Noun

 * 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 two-base hit
 * 5) A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
 * 6) A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
 * 7)  A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
 * 8)  A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
 * 9) 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.
 * 10)  The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
 * 11)  A hit on this ring.
 * 12)  A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) in both sides.
 * 13)  Short form of double-precision floating-point number.
 * The sin function returns a double.
 * 1)  Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
 * 2)  The feat of scoring twice in one game.

Verb

 * 1) To multiply by two
 * 2) To fold over so as to make two folds
 * 3)  To get a two-base hit
 * 4)  (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
 * 5)  (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
 * 6)  To repeat exactly; copy.
 * 7)  To play two parts or serve two roles.
 * 8)  To turn sharply; following a winding course.
 * 9)  To sail around (a headland or other point).
 * 10)  To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
 * 11)  To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
 * 12)  To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
 * 13)  To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
 * 14)  (foll. by for) To act as substitute.
 * 15)  To go or march at twice the normal speed.
 * 16)  To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
 * 17)  To multiply the strength or effect of by two.

Synonyms for Double

 * counterpart, twin, duplicate, understudy, stand-in
 * duplicate, repeat, enlarge
 * dual, twofold, duplex, twin, paired, coupled, bipartite.

Antonyms for Double
single, lone, unique.

Derived terms

 * double-cross/doublecross
 * double agent
 * double bed
 * double cousin
 * double date/double-date
 * double double
 * double Dutch
 * double entendre
 * doublehearted
 * double life


 * double meaning
 * double negative
 * double strength
 * double take
 * double-team
 * double tongue
 * double-tongued
 * double U
 * double vision
 * body double
 * double-count
 * see double
 * stunt double


 * double down
 * double over


 * doubler


 * double up

Thesaurus
carbon copy, change, change places with, changeling, circuitousness, circumvent, clone, co-walker, come again, come back, come home, companion, comparison, complicate, concentrate, condense, conduplicate, consolidate, coordinate, copy, corner, counterfeit, counterpart, coupled, crafty, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, crook, crooked, crowd out, cunning, curve, cut out, dead ringer, deceitful, declination, deepen, deflection, departure, deputy, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, dichotomous, digression, discursion, dishonest, disomatous, displace, ditch, ditto, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, do a repeat, do again, do over, dog-ear, dogleg, double back, double for, double over, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doubled, doubleganger, doublehearted, doubling, drift, drifting, duadic, dual, dualistic, dub, duck, dummy, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, duplication, duplicature, duplicitous, dyadic, echo, effigy, elude, enfold, enhance, enlarge, equal, equivalent, errantry, ersatz, escape, eschew, etheric double, evade, exacerbate, exact counterpart, exact likeness, exaggerate, exchange, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, facsimile, faithless, fake, false, false-principled, falsehearted, fellow, fetch, fill in for, fill-in, flection, flexure, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, frill, gather, geminate, geminated, get around, get away from, get out of, ghost, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, go back, go home, hairpin, heat up, hectograph, heighten, homograph, homonym, homophone, hop up, hot up, hypocritical, icon, idem, identical, identical same, idol, image, imitate, imitation, immediately, increase, indirection, infold, ingeminate, insincere, intensify, interfold, jazz up, key up, lap over, lapel, lappet, likeness, living image, living picture, locum tenens, magnify, make complex, makeshift, manifold, match, matched, mate, metaphor, metonymy, microcopy, microfilm, middle, mimeo, mimeograph, miniature, mirror image, mirroring, model, multigraph, multiply by two, next best thing, no other, none other, obliquity, on the run, paired, parrot, pererration, perfidious, personnel, phony, photograph, picture, pinch hitter, pinch-hit, plagiarize, plait, plat, pleat, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply, portrait, proxy, put back, quadruplicate, quickly, quill, quote, rambling, ramify, reciprocal, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reflection, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinforce, relief, relieve, renew, repeat, repetition, replace, replacement, replica, replicate, replication, represent, representation, representative, reproduce, reproduction, resemblance, reserves, return, revive, ringer, rubbing, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, say again, second, second string, secondary, selfsame, semblance, shadow, shake, shake off, sharpen, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shifty, shuffle out of, shun, shy, sign, similitude, simulacrum, skew, skirt, slant, slippery, soup up, spares, spell, spell off, spit, spit and image, spitting image, stand in for, stand-in, stat, step up, straying, strengthen, sub, subrogate, substituent, substitute, substitute for, substitution, succedaneum, succeed, supersede, superseder, supplant, supplanter, supplement, surrogate, swap places with, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, symbol, synecdoche, synonym, tack, the same, the same difference, third string, token, trace, tracing, traitorous, transcribe, treacherous, tricky, triple, triplicate, tuck, turn, turn back, turn over, turning, twain, twice, twill, twin, twinned, twist, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, understudy, understudy for, utility player, variation, veer, veering, very image, very picture, very same, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, wandering, warp, whet, without delay, wraith, yaw, zigzag

Etymology
13th Century. From doble:, double:, from  duplus:.

Pronunciation
(in the phrases Double-entendre/double entendres)

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: двоен
 * Chinese: 双重的
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כפול (kaful)
 * Ido: duopla
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Latin:
 * Manx: dooblit
 * Polish:, , p
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: dublu
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel, tvåfaldig
 * Telugu: రెట్టింపు (reTTimpu)
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: двойно
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, tupla-
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish:


 * Latin: binus
 * Manx: dooblit
 * Romanian: dublu
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel


 * Bulgarian: двоен
 * German: doppel-


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel


 * Bulgarian: удвоен, сгънат на две
 * German: doppellagig, zweilagig
 * Irish:
 * Manx: dooblit


 * Romanian: dublat
 * Spanish:, bicapa
 * Swedish: dubbel


 * Spanish: ,


 * Swedish: dubbelvikt


 * Bulgarian: двойнствен
 * German:
 * Romanian: dublu


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel, tvetydig


 * Bulgarian: двуличен
 * German: doppel-


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel


 * Bulgarian: кичест
 * Finnish:


 * German: gefüllt
 * Spanish:


 * German:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: двойно
 * Finnish: kaksinkertainen määrä
 * German:


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: dubbelganger, dubbelgangster
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: כפיל (kafyl), כפילה (kfila)
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish: doble, sosias
 * Swedish: dubbelgångare


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbel

Verb

 * Bulgarian: удвоявам
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: הכפיל
 * Irish:
 * Russian: удваивать, удвоить
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbla, fördubbla


 * Bulgarian: сгъвам на две
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Irish:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbelvika


 * Bulgarian: свивам
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: копирам
 * Finnish:
 * Irish:


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: duplicera


 * Finnish: kaksoisrooli
 * German:


 * Spanish: hacer las veces de


 * Finnish: äkkikäännös


 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish:


 * Swedish: runda


 * Finnish: ,


 * Swedish: dubblera


 * Bulgarian: контрирам
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbla


 * Bulgarian: дублирам
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Spanish: ser doble de, hacer de doble de
 * Swedish: ersätta


 * German:


 * Spanish: duplicar la velocidad


 * Bulgarian: удвоявам
 * Esperanto:


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dubbla, fördubbla


 * Spanish:, acumular doblemente

Etymology
From doble <  duplus:.

Adjective

 * 1)  all meanings
 * Il s'agit d'une phrase à double sens.

Derived terms

 * double-entendre
 * agent double

Noun

 * 1) Double.
 * Je n'en avais pas assez, alors j'en acheté le double.