Definition of double

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Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

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Doublehearted :: Doublehearted (a.) Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..
Countergage :: Countergage (n.) An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made..
Doubler :: Doubler (n.) One who, or that which, doubles..
Thiophthene :: Thiophthene (n.) A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds..
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..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places..
Pink :: Pink (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx..
Two-sided :: Two-sided (a.) Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical..
Roll :: Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself..
Double-tongue :: Double-tongue (n.) Deceit; duplicity.
Fold :: Fold (v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter..
Doubler :: Doubler (n.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope..
Hydrazine :: Hydrazine (n.) Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc..
Undouble :: Undouble (v. t.) To unfold, or render single..
Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..
Zircofluoride :: Zircofluoride (n.) A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium..
Bimarginate :: Bimarginate (a.) Having a double margin, as certain shells..
Quadruplicate :: Quadruplicate (a.) Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion..
Two-ply :: Two-ply (a.) Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double..
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