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Double can be an adverb, an adjective, a noun or a verb.
double used as an adverb:
- Twice over; twofold.
- Two together; two at a time. (esp. in see double)
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
double used as an adjective:
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements
"The closet has double doors." - Twice the quantity
"Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes." - Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family
"He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother." - Designed for two users.
"a double room" - Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
"a double meaning" - False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
"a double life" - Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
"a double bass" - Of time, twice as fast.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
double used as a noun:
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
"Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles." - A drink with two portions of alcohol
"On second thought, make that a double." - A two-base hit
"The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth." - A ghostly apparition of a living person; doppelgänger.
- A sharp turn, esp. a return on one's own tracks.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- A hit on this ring.
- Short form of double-precision floating-point number.
"The sin() function returns a double."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
double used as a verb:
- To multiply by two
"The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter." - To fold over so as to make two folds
"To make a pleat, double the material at the waist." - To get a two-base hit
"The batter doubled into the corner." - (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To play two parts or serve two roles.
- To turn sharply; following a winding course.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (foll. by for) To act as substitute.
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
"Our earnings have doubled in the last year."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is double?
- Adjective usage: The closet has double doors.
- Adjective usage: Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.
- Adjective usage: He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.
- Adjective usage: a double room
- Adjective usage: a double meaning
- Adjective usage: a double life
- Adjective usage: a double bass
- Noun usage: Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
- Noun usage: On second thought, make that a double.
- Noun usage: The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.
- Noun usage: The sin() function returns a double.
- Verb usage: The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- Verb usage: To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.
- Verb usage: The batter doubled into the corner.
- Verb usage: Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of double are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of double, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
