double
n.n. twice as much or twice as many of something. It can also describe something that is made of two similar parts.
n. amounting to twice the number, size, value, or strength; consisting of two equal or similar parts.
I would like a double room, please.
The recipe calls for a double portion of sugar for an extra sweet cake.
He led a double life, maintaining a family in the city while secretly working as a government agent abroad.
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.
Functions as an adjective before a noun (e.g., 'a double espresso') or as a predeterminer before another determiner (e.g., 'double the amount').
I need double books.I need double the number of books.When used as a quantifier for countable nouns, 'double' requires a determiner like 'the' or a phrase like 'the number of'. It cannot directly modify a plural noun in this way.
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double back
To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone.
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double booked
Of a single resource, reserved for two different users at the same time.
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double bookkeeping
The tendency, among those who experience delusions, to perceive reality and the delusions as both being real, while remaining unbothered by the discrepancy or inconsistencies between the two.