Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of double is as below...

Double :: Double (a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two..

Cat :: Cat (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed..

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Diplopy :: Diplopy (n.) The act or state of seeing double.

Dipyre :: Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent..

Ditrochee :: Ditrochee (n.) A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.

Berthierite :: Berthierite (n.) A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color..

Gastrula :: Gastrula (n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place..

Janus-faced :: Janus-faced (a.) Double-faced; deceitful.

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

Conceptacle :: Conceptacle (n.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles..

Double First :: Double first () One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.

Double :: Double (n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites..

Turnbull''s Blue :: Turnbull's blue () The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian..

Double-eyed :: Double-eyed (a.) Having a deceitful look.

Double :: Double (a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth..

Double-dye :: Double-dye (v. t.) To dye again or twice over.

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc..

Di- :: Di- () A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice.

Random Fonts

Most Popular