double
adjective
noun
- a substitute who performs feats or actions too hazardous or difficult for a star.
- body double.
- a challenge by an opponent that the declarer cannot fulfill the designated contract, increasing the points to be won or lost.
- a hand that warrants such a challenge.
verb (used with object), dou·bled, dou·bling.
- to sail around (a projecting area of land): to double Cape Horn.
- to add a new layer of planking or ceiling to (an old wooden hull).
- to challenge (the bid of an opponent) by making a call that increases the value of tricks to be won or lost.
- to challenge the bid of (an opponent): He doubled me into game.
- to cause the advance of (a base runner) by a two-base hit: He doubled him to third.
- to cause (a run) to be scored by a two-base hit (often followed by in): He doubled in the winning run.
- to put out (a base runner) as the second out of a double play (often followed by up).
verb (used without object), dou·bled, dou·bling.
adverb
Verb Phrases
- (in blackjack) to double an initial bet, on the condition that one can be dealt only one more card: Will you double down and beat the dealer?
- to increase one’s efforts or hold to a position or opinion, especially when vulnerable or taking a risk: He has continued to defend his controversial interpretation of the document, doubling down on what he sees as the truth.
- to share quarters planned for only one person or family: Because of the room shortage, we had to double up.
- to bend over, as from pain: He doubled up in agony.
Idioms for double
- without delay; rapidly: The fire engines came on the double.
- in double time, as marching troops.
Origin of double
OTHER WORDS FROM double
dou·ble·ness, noun dou·bler, noun qua·si-dou·ble, adjective qua·si-dou·b·ly, adverbWords nearby double
Definition for double (2 of 2)
noun
Origin of body double
Words related to double
Example sentences from the Web for double
And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’
Faced with the loss of middle class voters, the administration seems determined to double down on its current coalition.
They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.
That year, among the many Double Golds promiscuously handed out to various bourbons, one went to Old Grand Dad.
The wine-producing countries of Spain, Italy, and France, suggest limits that are double and triple that of the U.S.
Americans Drink Too Much, But We’re Not All Alcoholics |Gabrielle Glaser |November 25, 2014 |DAILY BEASTThe voice that calls foreign immigrants southward to-day is not single but double.
The Negro in the South |Booker T. WashingtonIt was reserved for Rationalism to accept and harmonise the double truth, and to wage war against both infallibilities.
The Book Of God |G. W. FooteAnd with this double collapse had come a strange irresistible resurgence of early feelings and forgotten superstitions.
Ghetto Tragedies |Israel ZangwillShe would be forced to go to the Double R now, there was nothing else that she could do.
The Trail to Yesterday |Charles Alden SeltzerWhy should they not speed the conviction of him whose intrigues were accessory to this double homicide?
Oswald Langdon |Carson Jay Lee
British Dictionary definitions for double (1 of 2)
adjective (usually prenominal)
- (of a root) being one of two equal roots of a polynomial equation
- (of an integral) having an integrand containing two independent variables requiring two integrations, in each of which one variable is kept constant
- (of an instrument) sounding an octave lower than the pitch indicated by the notationa double bass
- (of time) duple, usually accompanied by the direction alla breve
adverb
noun
- the narrow outermost ring on a dartboard
- a hit on this ring
- at twice normal marching speed
- quickly or immediately
verb
- to duplicate (a voice or instrumental part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it
- (intr usually foll by on) to be capable of performing (upon an instrument additional to one's normal one)the third trumpeter doubles on cornet
- to cause two pawns of the same colour to be on the same file
- to place both rooks of the same colour on the same rank or the same file
Derived forms of double
doubleness, noun doubler, nounWord Origin for double
British Dictionary definitions for double (2 of 2)
noun
Idioms and Phrases with double
In addition to the idioms beginning with double
- double back
- double bill
- double cross
- double date
- double Dutch
- double duty
- double feature
- double in brass
- double life
- double standard
- double take, do a
- double talk
- double up
also see:
- lead a double life
- on the double
- see double