double: significado y definiciones

Twice as much in size, strength, number, or amount: a double dose.

Composed of two like parts: double doors.

Composed of two unlike parts; dual: a double meaning; a double role for an actor.

Accommodating or designed for two: a double bed; a double room.

Characterized by duplicity; deceitful: speak with a double tongue.

Botany Having many more than the usual number of petals, usually in a crowded or an overlapping arrangement: a double chrysanthemum.

Something increased twofold.

One that closely resembles another; a duplicate.

An actor's understudy.

An actor who takes the place of another actor in scenes requiring special skills or preparations: a stunt double; a body double.

An apparition; a wraith.

A sharp turn in a direction of movement; a reversal.

A sharp, often devious change in position or argument; a shift.

Sports A form of a game, such as tennis or handball, having two players on each side.

Baseball See two-base hit.

Games A bid in bridge indicating strength to one's partner; a request for a bid.

Games A bid doubling one's opponent's bid in bridge, thus increasing the penalty for failure to fulfill the contract.

Games A hand justifying such a bid.

To make twice as great.

To be twice as much as: doubled the score of his opponent.

To fold in two.

To clench (one's fist).

To duplicate; repeat.

To turn (an enemy spy) into a double agent.

Baseball To cause the scoring of (a run) by hitting a two-base hit.