Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Something doubled or folded over; a fold; a plait; specifically (nautical), the doubled edge or skirt of a sail.
- n. That the addition of which makes double. Specifically— In heraldry, the lining of a mantle or mantling
- n. pl Naut., that part of a mast included between the trestletrees and the cap.
- n. The second distillation of wine.
- n. The act of marching at the double-quick.
- n. In botany, same as chorisis.
- Shifting; manœuvering.
- n. In textile-manuf., any process of combining two (or more) slivers and drawing them into a single sliver of smaller size than any of the separate ones, for the purpose of making more uniform roving.
- n. In weaving, the process of winding two threads or rovings upon a spool or bobbin.
- n. In biology, same as reduplication: said of the chromosomes and centrosomes of the cell when they undergo fission.
- n. In bridge, the act of doubling the value of the trick points after the dealer's side has declared. See bridge.
- n. In the production of metallic antimony from its ore, the remelting of the singles, or lumps of crude metal first obtained, and the mixing, in due proportion, of those containing surplus iron and those containing unseparated sulphur. The product of this second fusion is called bowl-metal because poured out into and solidified in a bowl of cast-iron.
- n. In bookbinding, the thickening of the covers of a book by the addition of thick paper or thin boards.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of double.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
- n. A turning and winding; ; shift; trick; artifice.
- n. (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
- n. The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
- n. raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. increase by a factor of two
- n. raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
Examples
“As for the doubling honors, each set or combination doubles the total score once, and if there are five _doubling honors_ in a hand, the total score should be doubled five times -- for example: a player goes”
“Quiz TV, with the total number of questions for the title doubling from the original amount, bringing the grand total to over 10,000 questions!”
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“He devotes a chapter to the "surge", what he calls a doubling down on his original bet, increasing the number of US troops in Iraq in 2007.”
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“Machinery sales, which account for about two-thirds of its revenue, are seen nearly doubling from a year ago, according to Goldman Sachs.”
The Wall Street Journal: Caterpillar Mines a Modern-Day Gold Rush
“Whether a short-term doubling or even tripling of display advertising is likely is another issue; traditional publishers will be convinved that even if that does happen, Google will be the biggest winner.”
“Every position she had had at the State has resulted in doubling of staff.”
“As in doubling airfare, inspiring an abject terror of long flights, and changing my view of canals from "quaint and beautiful" to "quaint and beautiful latent drowning spots".”
“The move from the singular to the universal is partly effected by a certain doubling of the subject to begin with.”
“They played differently, defensively in doubling outside and singling up on the inside receivers.”
“The illusion of doubling is also supported by Victor's tendency to misrecognize the relation between himself and the creature, repeatedly imputing his own failures of insight or responsibility to the creature's malevolent intervention.”
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Numbering
Math in motion.
calculating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, figuring, estimating, accounting, approximating, averaging, counting, factoring and 16 more...
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Piping
tailback, blowpipe, valve, drone, chanter, bag, skeepskin, pipe banner, bag seasoning, stocks, reed, henderson and 49 more...
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'A frequently doubling system could grow exponentially.' Aug 22, 2011