See Also: Double-Hearty, Double-Quick Veggie Chili(recipes)
Double-Skate Double-Pole - Skiing(gambling)
Double-Stride Double-Poling - Skiing(gambling)
Double-Double - Lotto(gambling)
Double top(money)
double-dip(dictionary)
double lip(medicine)
double(2)(dictionary)
double act(dictionary)
double bed(dictionary)

double (iou)



double verb. ME.
[Old French dobler, dubler (mod. doubler) from late Latin duplare, from Latin duplus DUPLE.]
verb trans. Make double; increase twofold; put two in the place of one; multiply by two; arch. amount to twice as much as. ME.
Shakespeare King Lear Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty. B. Jowett Ignorance doubled by conceit of knowledge. O. Henry If I doubled the number of trips I would see her twice as often. G. Greene He doubled the tip.
b. Music. Add the same note in a higher or lower octave to. M18.
c. Chess. Place a pawn or rook on the same file behind (another piece of the same kind and colour); place (two pawns or two rooks) thus. M18.
verb intrans. Become twice as much or as many as before; increase twofold. ME.
C. Pebody The circulation doubled. A. Alvarez Whenever he relaxed everything doubled: two brandy glasses,..two professors.
verb trans. Repeat, reiterate; Scot. make a copy or duplicate of. LME-E19.
b. Speak with repetition of sounds; stammer. rare. LME-E17.
verb trans. (Now chiefly Heraldry) add a second layer of material to, line, (a garment); cover (a ship) with an additional layer of planking. LME.
a. verb trans. Fold (a cloth, paper, etc.) so as to bring the two parts into contact, parallel; bend (the body), esp. into a stooping or curled-up posture (also foll. by up); clench or close (the hand). LME.
Dryden The page is doubled down. Yeats He is all doubled up with age. R. Carver She doubled her legs under her. J. G. Cozzens A slow involuntary spasm doubled her.
b. verb intrans. Become folded together or bent over; (of a person or limbs) bend double, stoop, curl up, (also foll. by up). M17.
Oxford English Dictionary The leaf has been folded, and tends to double over.
c. verb trans. Lay together and compress into one (two or more textile filaments or slivers). Freq. as doubling verbal noun. M19.
a. verb trans. Sail round or to the other side of (a cape or headland). M16.
b. verb intrans. Foll. by upon: enclose (an enemy fleet) from two sides. M18.
verb intrans. Make evasive turns or shifts; use duplicity, act deceitfully. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
a. verb intrans. Turn suddenly and sharply in running, like a hunted animal; turn (back) in one's course; pursue a winding or tortuous course. L16.
Dryden See how he doubles, like a hunted hare. P. Warner They were completely fooled when he doubled on his tracks.
b. verb trans. Avoid or escape by so doubling; give the slip to. E19.
a. verb trans. Military. Make double the length of (a rank or file) by bringing up another rank or file; bring up (a rank or file) in this way. L16.
b. verb intrans. Military. Of a rank or file: march into position behind another so as to make it double. M17.
verb intrans. & trans. (Cause to) share a room or quarters with or with another, esp. where the accommodation is intended for one only. Usu. foll. by up. L18.
a. verb trans. Theatrical. Perform (a part) in place of another player; stand in for (a player); combine the performance of (two parts) in a play etc. E19.
b. verb intrans. Perform two parts or an additional part in a play etc.; perform or function in an additional capacity as. E20.
C. P. Snow The governor of Kate's hospital also doubled as a trustee of the Opera. B. Moore The tobacconist's shop.., which doubled as the post office.
verb intrans. March in double time; go at the double. L19.
verb intrans. & trans. Billiards & Snooker etc. Of a ball: rebound from a cushion; spec. (of an object-ball) rebound from one cushion and enter a pocket. Of a player: cause (a ball) to do this. L19.
verb trans. & intrans. Bridge. Counter (a bid) by declaring a double. L19.
verb trans. & intrans. Music. Play on or on a second instrument in addition to a main one. E20.
L. Feather A clarinetist would double on tenor sax. Gramophone An arrangement for flute (doubling piccolo), two violas..and piano.
verb intrans. Foll. by up: increase a stake in betting twofold. E20.
verb trans. Carry (a person) as a second rider on a bicycle. Cf. double-bank s.v. DOUBLE adjective & adverb. Austral. & NZ. M20.