Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 90
Double (v. t.) (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
Double (v. i.) 變成兩倍；增加一倍；（橋牌）叫加倍To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles. -- T. Burnet.
Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. -- Dryden.
Doubling and doubling with laborious walk. -- Wordsworth.
Double (v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. -- J. Webster.
Double (v. i.) (Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
To double upon (Mil.), To inclose between two fires.
Double (n.) 兩倍（數或量），加倍 [C] [U]；酷似的人或物 [C] Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
If the thief be found, let him pay double. -- Ex. xxii. 7.
Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
Double (n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
Rolled up in sevenfold double Of plagues. -- Marston.
Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles. -- Addison.
Double (n.) A person or thing that is the counterpart of another; a duplicate; copy; (Obs.) transcript; -- now chiefly used of persons. Hence, a wraith.
My charming friend . . . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him. -- Atlantic Monthly.
Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute; -- used especially of a person who resembles an actor and takes the actor's place in scenes requiring special skills; as, a stunt double.
Double (n.) Double beer; strong beer.
Double (n.) (Eccl.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. -- Shipley.
Double (n.) (Lawn Tennis) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
Double (n.) (Mus.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
Double (adv.) Downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain".
Double (adv.) Two together; "some people sleep better double".
Double (adv.) To double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice].
Double (a.) Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence" -- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning" -- Frederick Harrison [syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-fold].
Double (a.) Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple].
Double (a.) Twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: double, doubled, twofold, two-fold].
Double (a.) Used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical" [ant: single].
Double (a.) Used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent, univalent].
Double (a.) Large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room".
Double (a.) Having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double, forked].
Double (n. A base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: double, two-base hit, two-bagger, two-baser].
Double (n.) A stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn: double, stunt man, stunt woman].
Double (n.) Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike].
Double (n.) A quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18".
Double (n.) Raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double].
Double (v.) Increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate].
Double (v.) Hit a two-base hit.
Double (v.) Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over, double, double up].
Double (v.) Do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary".
Double (v.) Bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit).
Double (v.) Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate].
Double. () Twofold; as, double cost; double insurance; double plea.
Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
Double-bank (v. t.) (Naut.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
To double-bank an oar, To set two men to pulling one oar.
Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart. Double-barreled
Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelled.
-barrelled (a.) Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
Double-barreled (a.) Having two barrels mounted side by side; "a double-barreled shotgun" [syn: double-barreled, double-barrelled] [ant: single-barreled, single-barrelled].
Double-barreled (a.) Having two purposes; twofold; "our double-barreled desire to make things profitable as well as attractive" -- Louis Kronenbergers [syn: double-barreled, double-barrelled].
Double-beat valve () See under Valve.
Double-breasted (a.) Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge.
Double dealer () One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
Double dealing () False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
Double-decker (n.) A man-of-war having two gun decks.
Double-decker (n.) A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof.
Double-dye (v. t.) To dye again or twice over.
Double-dyed (a.) Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.
Double-ender (n.) A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
Double-ender (n.) A locomotive with pilot at each end.
Double-entendre (n.) A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
Double-eyed (a.) Having a deceitful look.
Double-faced (a.) Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.
Double-faced (a.) Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
Double first () A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
Double first () One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics.
Double-handed (a.) Having two hands.
Double-handed (a.) Deceitful; deceptive.
Double-headed (a.) Having two heads; bicipital.
Doublehearted (a.) Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
Double-hung (a.) Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
Double-milled (a.) Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.
Doubleminded (a.) Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined.
Doubleness (n.) The state of being double or doubled.
Doubleness (n.) Duplicity; insincerity.
Double-quick (a.) Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
Double-quick (n.) Double-quick time, step, or march.
Double-quick (v. i. & t.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time.
Doubler (n.) One who, or that which, doubles.
Doubler (n.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
Double-ripper (n.) A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other.
Double-shade (v. t.) To double the natural darkness of (a place).
Doublet (n.) 成對物Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
Doublet (n.) (Print.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
Doublet (n.) （十四-十六世紀男用）緊身上衣 A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
Doublet (n.) (Lapidary Work) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
Doublet (n.) (Opt.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
Doublet (n.) pl. (See No. 1.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
Doublet (n.) pl. [Cf. Pr. doblier, dobler draughtboard.] A game somewhat like backgammon. -- Halliwell.
Doublet (n.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
Doublet (n.) A man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance.
Doublethreaded (a.) Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
Doublethreaded (a.) (Mech.) Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.
Double-tongue (n.) Deceit; duplicity.
Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folk and wickedly behind. -- Chaucer.
Double-tongued (a.) Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
Syn: deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, Janus-faced, two-faced.
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued. -- 1 Tim. iii. 8.
Double-tongued (a.) Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer" -- W. M. Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued].
Double-tonguing (n.) (Mus.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
Doubletree (n.) The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.
Doubletree (n.) A crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast.
Doublets (n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7.
Doubling (n.) 加倍；對摺；重疊；繞迴航；折回；再蒸餾；襯裡；【船】防護板；Double的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
Doubling (n.) (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
Doubling (n.) The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
Doubling (n.) raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
Syn: double.
Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), Sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.
Doubling (n.) Increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all".
Doubling (n.) Raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double].
Doubloon (n.) 達布隆（古西班牙金幣A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.
Doubloon (n.) A former Spanish gold coin.
Doubly (adv.) 加倍地；一次兩個地；雙重地 In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation. -- Dryden.
Doubly (adv.) Deceitfully. "A man that deals doubly." -- Huloet.
Doubly (adv.) To double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice].
Doubly (adv.) In a twofold manner; "he was doubly wrong" [syn: doubly, in two ways].
Doubted (imp. & p. p.) of Doubt.
Doubting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doubt.
Doubt (v. i.) 懷疑；不相信；不能肯定 [+whether/ if] [+that]；【古】恐怕 [+（that）] To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment. -- Hooker.
To try your love and make you doubt of mine. -- Dryden.
Doubt (v. i.) 懷疑 [（+of/ about）] To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive. [Obs.]
Syn: To waver; vacillate; fluctuate; hesitate; demur; scruple; question.
Doubt (v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
To admire superior sense, and doubt their own! -- Pope.
I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much of what is graceful. -- Tennyson.
To doubt not but. I do not doubt but I have been to blame. -- Dryden.
We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our way. -- Shak.
Note: That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing, etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs of "doubting" and "denying" that convey a notion of hindrance. -- E. A. Abbott.
Doubt (v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. -- R. of Gloucester.
I doubt some foul play. -- Shak.
That I of doubted danger had no fear. -- Spenser.
Doubt (v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me than all Britain. -- Beau. & Fl.
Doubt (n.) 懷疑，不相信 [C] [U] [（+about）] [+whether/ if]；疑問，不確實 [U] A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt. -- Wharton.
Doubt (n.) Uncertainty of condition.
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee. -- Deut. xxviii. 66.
Doubt (n.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. [Obs.]
I stand in doubt of you. -- Gal. iv. 20.
Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt. -- Spenser.
Doubt (n.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
To every doubt your answer is the same. -- Blackmore.
No doubt, Undoubtedly; without doubt.
Out of doubt, Beyond doubt. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Syn: Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.
Doubt (n.) The state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty].
Doubt (n.) Uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise" [syn: doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness, question].
Doubt (v.) Consider unlikely or have doubts about; "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage".
Doubt (v.) Lack confidence in or have doubts about; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother".
Doubt. () The uncertainty which exists in relation to a fact, a proposition, or other thing; or it is an equipoise of the mind arising from an equality of contrary reasons. Ayl. Pand. 121.
Doubt. () The embarrassing position of a judge is that of being in doubt, and it is frequently the lot of the wisest and most enlightened to be in this condition, those who have little or no experience usually find no difficulty in deciding the most, problematical questions.
Doubt. () Some rules, not always infallible, have been adopted in doubtful cases, in order to arrive at the truth. 1. In civil cases, the doubt ought to operate against him, who having it in his power to prove facts to remove the doubt, has neglected to do so. In cases of fraud when there is a doubt, the presumption of innocence (q.v.) ought to remove it. 2. In criminal cases, whenever a reasonable doubt exists as to the guilt of the accused that doubt ought to operate in his favor. In such cases, particularly, when the liberty, honor or life of an individual is at stake, the evidence to convict ought to be clear, and devoid of all reasonable doubt. See Best on Pres. Sec. 195; Wils. on Cir. Ev. 26; Theory of Presumptive Proof, 64; 33 How. St. Tr. 506; Burnett, Cr. Law of Scotl. 522; 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 1 D'Aguesseau, Oeuvres, vol. xiii. p. 242; Domat, liv. 3, tit. 6.
Doubt. () No judge is presumed to have any doubt on a question of law, and he cannot therefore refuse to give a judgment on that account. 9 M. R. 355; Merlin, Repert. h.t.; Ayliffe's Pand. b. 2, t. 17; Dig. lib. 34, t. 5; Code, lib. 6, t. 38. Indeed, in some countries; in China, for example, ignorance of the law in a judge is punishable with blows. Penal Laws of China, B. 2, s. 61.
Doubtable (a.) 可疑的, 令人懷疑的 Capable of being doubted; questionable.
Doubtable (a.) Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. [Obs.]
Compare: Redoubtable
Redoubtable (a.) [Humorous] 可怕的；令人敬畏的 (Of a person) Formidable, especially as an opponent.
‘He was a redoubtable debater.’
‘The redoubtable ladies.’
Doubtance (n.) 不確定；不確信；易變；不可靠 [U]；不確定的事物；難以預料的事物 [C] [P1] State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Doubter (n.) 抱懷疑態度的人；不信宗教（或政治）的人 One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
Doubter (n.) Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs [syn: {skeptic}, {sceptic}, {doubter}].
Doubter (n.) Someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something [syn: {agnostic}, {doubter}].
Doubtful (a.) 懷疑的，疑惑的 [F] [（+about/ of）] [+wh-]；可疑的，令人生疑的；含糊的，不明確的；難以預測的；（名聲等）不好的 Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful. -- Shak.
With doubtful feet and wavering resolution. -- Milton.
Doubtful (a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. -- Shak.
Is it a great cruelty to expel from our abode the enemy of our peace, or even the doubtful friend [i. e., one as to whose sincerity there may be doubts]? -- Bancroft.
Doubtful (a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
Doubtful (a.) Of uncertain issue or event.
We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. -- Milton.
The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. -- Macaulay.
Doubtful (a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious. [Obs.]
I am doubtful that you have been conjunct And bosomed with her. -- Shak.
Syn: Wavering; vacillating; hesitating; undetermined; distrustful; dubious; uncertain; equivocal; ambiguous; problematical; questionable.
Doubtful (a.) Open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought"- Karen Horney [syn: doubtful, dubious, dubitable, in question(p)].
Doubtful (a.) Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go" [syn: doubtful, dubious].
Doubtful (a.) Unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions" [syn: doubtful, tentative].
Doubtful (a.) (B2) 懷疑的，有疑慮的；不能確定的 If you are doubtful about something, you are uncertain about it.
// The teacher is doubtful about having parents working as classroom assistants.
Doubtful (a.) (B2) 不大可能的 If a situation is doubtful, it is unlikely to happen or to be successful.
// It is doubtful whether/ if they ever reached the summit before they died.
// It was doubtful that the money would ever be found again.
Doubtfully (adv.) 懷疑地；含糊地 In a doubtful manner.
Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. -- Dryden.
Doubtfully (adv.) In a doubtful manner; "Gerald shook his head doubtfully" [syn: doubtfully, dubiously].
Doubtfulness (n.) 懷疑；可疑 [U] State of being doubtful.
Doubtfulness (n.) Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." -- Locke.