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English grammatical practice
an adjective includes two comparative markers, it is referred to as a double comparative. Examples of double comparatives include phrases such as "more
Double_comparative
Feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
adjective has two comparative markers, it is known as a double comparative (e.g. more louder, worser). The use of double comparatives is generally associated
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Degrees_of_comparison_of_adjectives_and_adverbs
English grammatical practice
Double comparative Double negative "Is the Double Superlative the Most Stupidest Construction in Grammar?". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2024-05-27. "Double comparatives
Double_superlative
Form of scientific experiment
is sometimes expanded as "randomized clinical trial" or "randomized comparative trial", leading to ambiguity in the scientific literature. Not all RCTs
Randomized_controlled_trial
Syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison
quality or action. A comparative sentence contains an adjective or an adverb in the comparative degree. The syntax of comparative constructions is poorly
Comparative_sentence
French artist (1896–1948)
1987). "Artaud's Revision of Shelley's The Cenci: The Text and its Double". Comparative Drama. 21 (2): 115–126. doi:10.1353/cdr.1987.0047. JSTOR 41153273
Antonin_Artaud
Type of knot
fisherman's knot is a knot—specifically a bend—that joins two lines. The double fisherman's knot and triple fisherman's knot are variations used in climbing
Fisherman's_knot
Group of islands in the South Atlantic
peculiarities in Tristan da Cunha English, including double comparatives (e.g., "I like that more better") and double negation (e.g., "nobody never come out or nothing")
Tristan_da_Cunha
French philosopher
Language (Doctoral school) and aesthetics of music, revealing an early double comparative interest for Husserlian Phenomenology and Ludwig Wittgenstein entire
Marc_Jean-Bernard
French actor and director
(1987). "Artaud's Revision of Shelley's "The Cenci": The Text and its Double". Comparative Drama. 21 (2): 115–126. ISSN 0010-4078. JSTOR 41153273. Cited in
Charles_Dullin
Variety of the English language spoken in the Falkland Islands
car. Several non-standard features are found in comparative and superlative structures. Double comparative and superlative forms are sometimes found; for
Falkland_Islands_English
Strategy of completing tasks with another person
for Body Doubling to Assist Individuals with ADHD in Managing Task Initiation and Completion. Annavarapu, Swetha (2024-02-29). Comparative Study of Body
Body_doubling
Country with no ocean coastline
Policy, Rural Livelihoods and Urban Food Security in West Africa: A Comparative Study of The Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
Landlocked_country
Dialect of English in islands of the Southern Hemisphere
peculiarities in Tristan da Cunha English, including double comparatives (e.g., "I like that more better") and double negation (e.g., "nobody never come out or nothing")
South_Atlantic_English
Double cones (DCs), known as twin cones when the two members are the same, are two cone cells (colour detecting photoreceptors) joined together that may
Double_cone_(biology)
Structure formed by double-stranded molecules
molecular biology, the double helix is the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA. The double-helical structure of a
Nucleic_acid_double_helix
Dog breed
triangular, erect ears with rounded tips. The breed is known for a very dense double coat that is either smooth or rough. The fur is particularly thick in the
Chow_Chow
Country in Central Europe
Vol. 7, cols 1342-1343 Champion, Tim (2005). Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology. Routledge. p. 233. ISBN 978-1-134-80679-9. "Svatopluk
Czech_Republic
Study of language change over time
ancestral languages, the classification of languages into families (comparative linguistics), and the analysis of the cultural and social influences
Historical_linguistics
Dialectical economic process
The double movement is a concept originating with Karl Polanyi in his book The Great Transformation. The phrase refers to the dialectical process of marketization
Double_movement
Country in South Asia
106. ISBN 978-0-674-07480-4. At same time, the leafy pipal trees and comparative abundance that marked the Mewari landscape fostered refinements unattainable
India
Country in northwestern Europe
2025. Hammar, Tomas (1985). European Immigration Policy: A Comparative Study. Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
United_Kingdom
Country in South Asia
Rajesh M. (2008). South Asia's Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective. Routledge. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-134-16531-5. Retrieved 9 May
Pakistan
Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
groups living in USSR, 1970 Ethnic Groups in the Soviet Union, 1979 Comparative Soviet Nationalities by Republic, 1989 In 1917, before the revolution
Soviet_Union
Island country in Southeast Asia
(2024). "Democratic backsliding in illiberal Singapore". Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. 9 (1): 25–49. doi:10.1177/20578911221141090. Mutalib, Hussin
Singapore
Type of RNA
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is RNA with two complementary strands found in cells. It is similar to DNA but with the replacement of thymine by uracil and
Double-stranded_RNA
Study of language in historical sources
older usage, especially British, philology is more general, covering comparative and historical linguistics. Classical philology studies classical languages
Philology
Hitch knot
Archived March 31, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (in French) Tom Moyer, Paul Tusting, Chris Harmston,(2000) Comparative Testing of High Strength Cord
Double_overhand_noose
Country primarily in Western Europe
"Constitutional Limits on Government: Country Studies – France". Democracy Web: Comparative studies in Freedom. Archived from the original on 28 August 2013. Retrieved
France
Team sport played with a ball
Archived from the original on 11 October 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2021. "Comparative Study of Rules of Laws (2024)" (PDF). NFHS. Archived (PDF) from the original
Association_football
Country in Oceania
Non-recognition to Australia's Antarctic Territory Title" (PDF). International & Comparative Law Quarterly. 70 (April 2021): 491–503. doi:10.1017/S0020589321000051
Australia
Country in South America
(2016). Democratization by Institutions: Argentina's Transition Years in Comparative Perspective. University of Michigan Press. p. 15. "Argentina | The Global
Argentina
Intelligence of machines
Revenge and Deepfake Porn Victims in the European Union: Findings from a Comparative Legal Study". Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 25 (1): 117–129. doi:10.1177/15248380221143772
Artificial_intelligence
Armored personnel carrier
30 mm cannon is capable of hitting targets over 2,000 meters away. After comparative testing of the Kongsberg MCRWS mounted to Strykers, the U.S. Army approved
Variants_of_the_Stryker
Country in Eastern Europe and North Asia
Determinants of Political Competition in Russian Regions". Comparative Politics. 38 (3). Comparative Politics, Ph.D. Programs in Political Science, City University
Russia
Archipelagic country in Southeast Asia
States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945–1991. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 118.
Philippines
Political party in the United States
conservatism, with conservatives now only making up a minority of the party. Comparative politics studies by the V-Dem Institute, Polity Data Series, Global Party
Republican Party (United States)
Republican_Party_(United_States)
Literary motif
The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared
Gothic_double
Soccer tournament in the United States
Cup History: 1994". ESPN.com. Retrieved June 25, 2020. "FIFA World Cup comparative statistics 1982-2014" (PDF). FIFA. Archived (PDF) from the original on
1994_FIFA_World_Cup
Country in northern Europe
Gergely Hideg (2005). "EUICS report, The Burden of Crime in the EU, A Comparative Analysis of the" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April
Sweden
Country in Southern and Western Europe
Pavolini (2016). The Italian welfare state in a European perspective: A comparative analysis. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-4473-3444-6. Zloch-Christy, Iliana
Italy
Country in Southern Africa
(352). Barnard, Alan (1992). Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A comparative ethnography of the Khoisan peoples. New York, NY; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
South_Africa
Combination of major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder
F.; Blandu, M. (2012). "P-537 - Comparative analysis of dual serotonergic and noradrenergic antidepressants in double depression with alcohol dependence"
Double_depression
Punctuation mark
Lawrence (2000). "Angle brackets". The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press. p. 22. ISBN 9781579582180. Archived
Bracket
Country in Central Africa
2023. Retrieved 4 March 2025. O'Neil, Patrick (2004). Essentials of Comparative Politics. New York, London: Norton. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-393-97654-0. "General
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
Country in East Asia
Constitutional Amendment and Vision of the Japanese Society". Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 13 (1): 59–86. doi:10.1017/asjcl.2017.25. "Committee on the Elimination
Japan
Country in Northwestern Europe
Another comparative study on transportation in Belgium: OECD environmental performance reviews: Belgium. OECD. 2007. ISBN 978-92-64-03111-1. "Double record
Belgium
Island country in the Pacific Ocean
6 May 2010. Baker, John (February 2010) [1966]. "Some Indicators of Comparative Living Standards". In McLintock, Alexander (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of
New_Zealand
Country in Central Europe
Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 40 (4). London: 637–665. doi:10.1017/S0010417598001686
Switzerland
Behavioral paradigm in which organisms learn to predict aversive events
associated with ablation of the amygdaloid complex in monkeys". Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 49 (4): 381–91. doi:10.1037/h0088009. PMID 13345917
Fear_conditioning
traditionally grouped. Metro Manila (NCR) is not a province but is included for comparative purposes. Under Class, Mun indicates municipalities, CC component
List of cities and municipalities in the Philippines
List_of_cities_and_municipalities_in_the_Philippines
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
presented himself "as the true representative of 'the people'". Scholars of comparative politics have drawn comparisons between Johnson and other populist leaders
Boris_Johnson
Indian politician, nationalist, barrister and academician (1901–1953)
ISBN 9788170173878 Dash, Shreeram Chandra (1968), The Constitution of India: A Comparative Study, Chaitanya Publishing Dossani, Rafiq; Rowen, Henry S. (2005), Prospects
Shyama_Prasad_Mukherjee
Country in Central Europe
religious affiliation: three fourths profess a religion] (PDF) (with comparative data from the censuses from 1951 to 2021). Archived (PDF) from the original
Austria
Country in North Africa
Nowrin (December 2008). "Personal status laws in Morocco and Tunisia: a comparative exploration of the possibilities for equality-enhancing reform in Bangladesh"
Tunisia
Singaporean actor (born 1993)
and graduated from Duke University, where he majored in International Comparative Studies and was a member of the Lambda Phi Epsilon Fraternity. He was
Ayden_Sng
Country in South America
primarily considered as the restricted region treated in this paper, but for comparative purposes, in the table only, it is also considered in a broad sense as
Ecuador
Machine to increase pressure of gas by reducing its volume
used to turn diagonal flow to an axial rather than radial direction. Comparative to the conventional centrifugal compressor (of the same stage pressure
Compressor
Country in Southeast Asia and Oceania
Bellwood, P.; et al. (eds.). The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Comparative Austronesian Series. ANU Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-920942-85-4
Indonesia
Canadian/American family of wheeled armored fighting vehicles
to 1,700 yd). Four rounds in five-round bursts hit the targets. After comparative testing of the Kongsberg MCRWS mounted to Stryker vehicles, the U.S.
Stryker
Measure of earthquake size
opposite magnitude is applied, their torques cancel; this is called a double couple. A double couple can be viewed as "equivalent to a pressure and tension acting
Moment_magnitude_scale
West Germanic language
have irregular suppletive comparative and superlative forms, such as good, better, and best. Other adjectives have comparatives formed by periphrastic constructions
English_language
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016
Johnson and the 'populist hypothesis' in the British Conservative Party." Comparative European Politics 20.5 (2022): 527–543 online Allen, Chris. "Cameron
David_Cameron
Concept in Latin grammar
In Latin grammar, a double dative is the combination of a dative of reference with a dative of purpose. A common translation is "As a (dative of purpose)
Double_dative
First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader
II and Benedict XVI. Jesuism – Religious belief Jesus in comparative mythology – Comparative mythology study of Jesus Jewish views on Jesus – Judaism's
Jesus
A comparative law wiki is a wiki that allows users to create empirical cross-reference datasets for the analysis of the world's myriad legal systems.
Comparative_law_wiki
Political party in the United Kingdom
Ireland: Variations in Party Government". In Colomer, Josep M. (ed.). Comparative European Politics (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-07354-2
Labour_Party_(UK)
Organ system for circulating blood in animals
2021). "August Krogh: Muscle capillary function and oxygen delivery". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Circulatory_system
American actor (born 1958)
1977, before attending Rutgers University, where he pursued a degree in comparative literature, eventually leaving college to play baseball. He was exposed
Scott_Patterson
Phase since 2022 of war ongoing since 2014
"Lessons of World War II and the Annexation of Crimea". International Comparative Jurisprudence. 3 (1): 25–36. doi:10.13165/j.icj.2017.03.003. ISSN 2351-6674
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–present)
Strangio, Paul; et al. (2013), Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford UP, pp. 224, 226, ISBN 978-0-19-966642-3 Theakston
Historical rankings of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Historical_rankings_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
2022) pp. 68–79. online Williams, Blair E. "A tale of two women: A comparative gendered media analysis of UK Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Theresa
Theresa_May
Killing of a human by another human
ISBN 978-1-000-63052-7. Horder, Jeremy (10 December 2007). Homicide Law in Comparative Perspective. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84731-385-0. Reed, Alan;
Homicide
Complex fertilization mechanism of flowering plants
Double fertilization or double fertilisation (see spelling differences) is a complex fertilization mechanism of angiosperms. This process involves the
Double_fertilization
Country in West Asia
Muslim states and international human rights treaty obligations: a comparative study. BIICL. pp. 60–65. ISBN 978-1-905221-41-7. Archived from the original
Saudi_Arabia
Medical condition caused by receiving too little or too many nutrients
Health Organization and The Lancet Commission have also identified "[t]he double burden of malnutrition", which occurs from "the coexistence of overnutrition
Malnutrition
Country in North Africa
and Technologies identified a number of sectors where Morocco has a comparative advantage and skilled human capital, including mining, fisheries, food
Morocco
Story in the Book of Genesis
of his father. Deuteronomy 21:17 states that he was also entitled to a double portion of the paternal inheritance. In the interpretation of political
Jacob_and_Esau
Global intergovernmental organization
development. The organization also publishes the UN Human Development Index, a comparative measure ranking countries by poverty, literacy, education, life expectancy
United_Nations
Part of Latin grammar
superlative and comparative forms. For regular first and second declension and third declension adjectives with one or two endings, the comparative is formed
Latin_declension
American professional wrestling and entertainment company
and shared confidential information with the WWE which represented a comparative advantage in negotiating with wrestling talent under contract with TNA
WWE
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up older in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Older is the comparative form of "old". It may refer to: Older (George Michael album), 1996 "Older"
Older
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
(managing director of Compact) and Moira Weigel (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard), Peter Thiel and Alex Karp built Palantir on the
Peter_Thiel
1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia
"Women, Socialism, and the Economy of Wartime North Vietnam". Studies in Comparative Communism. 16: 165–90. doi:10.1016/0039-3592(81)90005-3. Margaret Sullivan
Vietnam_War
Epic poem attributed to Homer
important characteristic of the language is the Homeric simile. These are comparative metaphors that can be long or short, typically deriving from the natural
Odyssey
Turkish Empire (c. 1299–1922)
Peter Fibiger Bang, and Dariusz Kolodziejczyk, eds. Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History (Cambridge
Ottoman_Empire
Type of postgraduate qualification
English. Universities in Pakistan teach comparative constitutional law, comparative human rights law and comparative jurisprudence as mandatory subjects.
Master_of_Laws
Graduate school in Raleigh, North Carolina, US
degree programs; interdisciplinary research in a range of veterinary and comparative medicine topics through centers, institutes, programs and laboratories;
North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine
North_Carolina_State_University_College_of_Veterinary_Medicine
Saudi royal and businessman (1958–2002)
Ahmed bin Salman attended the University of California, Irvine, studying comparative culture, and graduated from the university in the early 1980s. Ahmed
Ahmed_bin_Salman_Al_Saud
1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
Peripheral Narratives from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Bulgaria". Comparative Southeast European Studies. 71: 12–31. doi:10.1515/soeu-2021-0069. Loganovsky
Chernobyl_disaster
External genitalia of the female mammal
(Bartholin's and Skene's). The folds of the outer and inner labia provide a double layer of protection for the vagina (which leads to the uterus). While the
Vulva
The following is a comparative list of wearable devices using the Wear OS operating system. "Introducing Wear OS by Google". support.google.com. "Android Wear
List_of_Wear_OS_devices
Portrayal of sexual subject matter
undergo regular testing for STIs unlike much of the general public. Comparative studies indicate higher tolerance and consumption of pornography among
Pornography
Muscle relaxant medication
Retrieved 26 September 2020. Chou R, Peterson K, Helfand M (August 2004). "Comparative efficacy and safety of skeletal muscle relaxants for spasticity and musculoskeletal
Cyclobenzaprine
Staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology
descriptions of redirect targets Crozier – Ceremonial staff in Christianity Double-headed eagle – Symbol used in heraldry Healing Simurgh – Symbol of medicine
Caduceus
Cognitive bias about one's own skill
incompetence. This model has also been called the "dual-burden account" or the "double-burden of incompetence", since the burden of regular incompetence is paired
Dunning–Kruger_effect
Chinese (Taiwan)). Liberty Times. 2025-11-14. Retrieved 2026-03-10. "Comparative Analysis of second and third division (FINAL - 31.08.2021)" (PDF). FIFA
List of professional sports leagues by revenue
List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue
Domesticated species of canid
comparison of hearing and auditory functioning between dogs and humans". Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews. 15: 45–94. doi:10.3819/CCBR.2020.150007
Dog
Dog breed
sobáka, or самое́д, samoyéd) is a breed of herding dog with a thick, white, double-layered coat. They are spitz-type dogs which take their name from the Samoyedic
Samoyed_dog
Morphological feature of verbs in Semitic languages
have. The first column gives the traditional stem abbreviation used by Comparative Semiticists and the second column gives typical stem names used in Arabic
Derived_stem
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Dibble.Altered spelling of German Deibel or Deubel.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a sickly person, from French debile ‘frail’, ‘weak’ (from Latin debilis).Americanized spelling of German Diebel.
Girl/Female
Scottish
From the Gaelic 'dubhglas' meaning dark water, dark stream, or from the dark river.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Money; Russian Currency
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Wombwell in South Yorkshire, named with the Old English byname Wamba meaning ‘belly’ (or this word used in a transferred topographical sense) + Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname from Old French doubel ‘twin’ (literally ‘double’, from Late Latin duplus, classical Latin duplex, from du(o) ‘two’ + plek, a root meaning ‘fold’).
Surname or Lastname
French
French : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Hildo (see Hildebrand, Houde).French : habitational name from any of several places in Normandy called La Houle or Les Houles, named in Old French with the singular or plural of houle ‘cave’.English : variant of Hole.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the medieval personal name Dobbe, one of several pet forms of Robert in which the initial letter was altered. Compare Hobbs.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin; perhaps derived from the vocabulary word soul as a term of affection.French (Soulé) : variant of Soulier 1.George Soule (1600–80), one of the passengers on the Mayflower in 1620, was one of the founders of Duxbury, MA, where he became comparatively wealthy. He left eight children.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Coble.Americanized spelling of German Kobel.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Dubhghall, DOYLE means "black stranger."Â
Male
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word, from Latin nobilis, NOBLE means "noble."
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : variant of Double.In some cases, probably an altered spelling of South German Dobel or Döbel, a topographic name for someone who lived in a gorge or deep valley, Middle High German southern dialect tobel.
Girl/Female
Christian, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Money
Girl/Female
Latin
Mistress of the home.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly a variant of Goble or Gobel.Perhaps an Americanized spelling of French Gobeil.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Born during the rainy season, Money
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Dowdell.Possibly an altered spelling of German Daudel, Dautel, variants of Dietz.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a variant of the medieval personal name Tebald, Tibalt (see Theobald).
Boy/Male
British, Christian, English
Dark Water; In the Seventeenth Century; Diminutive of Douglas
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
Girl/Female
British, English
Clover
Girl/Female
Muslim
Beloved, Sweetheart
Male
Native American
Native American Sioux name MAHKAH means "earth."
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Brilliant
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
White; Bright; Brilliant; Innocent; Pure; Feminine of Abyad
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Blessings of Guru
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : from a pet form (with the suffix -ot) of the medieval personal name Herry, Harry (a variant of Henry).Scottish : habitational name from a place, as for example Heriot to the south of Edinburgh, named with Middle English heriot, which denoted a piece of land restored to the feudal lord on the death of its tenant. The Middle English word is from Old English heregeatu, a compound of here ‘army’ + geatu ‘equipment’, referring originally to military equipment that was restored to the lord on the death of a vassal.English : habitational name from Herriard in Hampshire, which may have been named as ‘army quarters’ (Old English here ‘army’ + geard ‘enclosure’), or possibly from the Celtic terms hyr ‘long’ + garth ‘ridge’.
Girl/Female
Greek
Resurrection.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Merciful
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sentiment of Love and affection
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
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DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
DOUBLE COMPARATIVE
n.
One who, or that which, doubles.
a.
To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
n.
The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
n.
Double-quick time, step, or march.
v. i.
To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
n.
That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
a.
Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
v. t.
To double the natural darkness of (a place).
adv.
In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.
n.
Double beer; strong beer.
adv.
In a double degree; doubly.
n.
The state of being double or doubled.
n.
A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
v. t.
To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
adv.
Twice; doubly.
n.
Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
imp. & p. p.
of Double
a.
To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.