Double

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Made up of two matching or complementary elements.

   “The closet has double doors.”

2. sıfat Of twice the quantity.

   “Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.”

3. sıfat Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.

   “He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.”

4. sıfat Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).

   “a double room”

5. sıfat Folded in two; composed of two layers.
6. sıfat Stooping; bent over.
7. sıfat Having two aspects; ambiguous.

   “a double meaning”

8. sıfat False, deceitful, or hypocritical.

   “a double life”

9. sıfat Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
10. sıfat Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.

    “a double bass”

11. sıfat Of time, twice as fast.
12. zarf Twice over; twofold; doubly.

    “February 7 1736, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I was double their age.”

13. zarf Two together; two at a time.

    “When I met the twins, I thought I was seeing double.”

14. zarf Into two halves or sections.

    “The old man was bent double under his heavy burden.”

15. isim Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
16. isim A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes

    “Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.”

17. isim A drink with two portions of alcohol.

    “On second thought, make that a double.”

18. isim A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
19. isim A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
20. isim A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.

    “I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.”

21. isim A two-base hit.

    “The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.”

22. isim A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
23. isim A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.

    “Brecel fired in doubles, a succession of stunning long pots and seemingly cleared balls at will as he rattled through the first four frames in under an hour.”

24. isim 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.

    “Not only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well.”

25. isim The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
26. isim A hit on this ring.
27. isim A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
28. isim A double-precision floating-point number.

    “The sine function returns a double.”

29. isim Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
30. isim A boat for two scullers.