Word Finder - doubled

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To multiply by two.

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The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.

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To fold over so as to make two folds.

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To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.

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To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.

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To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.

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Our earnings have doubled in the last year.

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To get a two-base hit.

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The batter doubled into the corner.

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(sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).

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(often followed by together or up) To join or couple.

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To repeat exactly; copy.

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(often followed by as) To play a second part or serve a second role.

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A spork is a kind of fork that doubles as a spoon.

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To turn sharply, following a winding course.

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To sail around (a headland or other point).

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To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.

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(usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).

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To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.

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To double down.

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To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.

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(followed by for) To act as substitute.

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To go or march at twice the normal speed.

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To multiply the strength or effect of by two.

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Sorry, this store does not double coupons.

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To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.

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(of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.

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Could you please repeat your last transmission? Another station was doubling with you.

His body seized suddenly, and he dropped to his knees, doubled over.

Keaton doubled over with laughter.

Nearly doubled over in pain, Sofia returned to her room.

Katie doubled over, breathless.

Tasman doubled the southern extremity of Van Diemen's Land and explored the east coast for some distance.

Finally, he doubled back and spent the return trip simply enjoying the country road.

The next morning, after church, they doubled up on Ed and rode into the hills.

It doubled her over, and she leaned over the back of the car, retching.

In 1900, 88.9% of its farm acreage was devoted to hay and forage crops, being more than doubled in the decade.

True, the supply from India had been more than doubled, the adulteration once so rife had been checked, and the improved quality and value of the cotton had been fully acknowledged, but still the superiority of the produce of the United States was proved beyond all dispute, and American cotton was again king.

In the 10th century bands of Varangians or Russified Scandinavians sailed out of the Volga and coasted along the Caspian until they had doubled the Apsheron peninsula, when they landed and captured Barda, the chief town of Caucasian Albania.

In just eighteen months from now, we will have duplicated that again and effectively doubled our computation power.

There are many furrows in the sand where some creature has travelled about and doubled on its tracks; and, for wrecks, it is strewn with the cases of caddis-worms made of minute grains of white quartz.

Nicholas agreed, and the hunt, now doubled, moved on.

Kutuzov sat up with one leg hanging down from the bed and his big paunch resting against the other which was doubled under him.

The numbers atop the walls had been doubled, a sign of impending battle.

The guards and their weapons were doubled.

Water traffic, which is chiefly in heavy merchandise, as coal, building materials, and agriculture and food produce, more than doubled in volume between 1881 and 1905.

The population of Victoria was doubled in the first twelvemonth of the gold fever, and the value of imports and exports was multiplied tenfold between 1851 and 1853.

In that year the Swiss government reduced the rate for inland telegrams by one-half, and the traffic immediately doubled, but the cost of carrying on the service increased in a larger ratio.

The parcel post and money order services have largely increased since 1887--1888, the number of parcels having almost doubled (those for abroad are more than trebled), while the number of money orders issued is trebled and their value doubled (about 40,000,000).

Within the cities and upon the open lands the Italians, in this and the next century, doubled, trebled and quadrupled their numbers.

The total national debt of Russia nearly trebled between 1852 (£57,038,600) and 1862 (£145,50o,000), and again between 1872 (£242,277,000) and 1892 (£526,109.000) it more than doubled, while by 1906 it amounted altogether to £812,040,000.

The production of pig-iron nearly doubled between 1890 and 1900, increasing from 446,800 tons in the former year to 801,600 in the latter; but since 1900 the output has declined, the total for 1904 (inclusive of Siberia) being 644,000 tons.

About that time a thorough reform of the machinery in use was effected whereby the number of hands employed was reduced, but the yearly production doubled or trebled.

Few Spanish towns have developed more rapidly than Baracaldo, which nearly doubled its population between 1880 and 1900.

In 1826, in his Memoire sur les roues hydrauliques a aubes courbes, he brought forward improvements in the construction of water-wheels, which more than doubled their efficiency.

Its chief drawback is that it does not give any more reference to the authority for a generic term than the name of its inventor and the year of its application, though of course more precise information would have at least doubled the size of the book.

Other houses of the Brothers of Common Life, otherwise called the "Modern Devotion," were in rapid succession established in the chief cities of the Low Countries and north and central Germany, so that there were in all upwards of forty houses of men; while those of women doubled that figure, the first having been founded by Groot himself at Deventer.

The latter appears mainly in Palestine, and has of late been considerably strengthened by immigration of European Jews, who have almost doubled the population of Jerusalem, and settled upon several fertile spots throughout the Holy Land.

The cost of living has doubled and the price of land has risen enormously."

His reign of eight years had almost doubled the extent of the Turkish dominions.

At the close of Suleiman's reign the Turkish army numbered nearly 200,000 men, including the Janissaries, whose total he almost doubled, raising them to 20,000.

Though he had control of what remained of the navies of Holland and Spain, as well as of the French, he was outnumbered at every point, while the efficiency of the British fleet gave it a mobility which doubled its material superiority.

In 1903, after the census had been taken, the population of the town was more than doubled by the addition of the municipalities of La Paz (pop. 5724), Mandurriao (pop. 4482), Molo (pop. 8551) and Jaro (pop. 10,681); in 1908 Jaro again became a separate town.

As nearly as can be estimated, the total imports into Siberia amount approximately to £5,000,000, the amount having practically doubled between 1890 and 1902; the total exports average about £9,000,000.

A part of one surface of the plate may be silvered, so that the polarized ray, after having once traversed the glass, is reflected back again; the rotation is thus doubled, and moreover, the arrangement is, for certain experiments, more convenient than the other.

Accordingly the diplostichous ommatoeum or soft tissue of the Arachnid's central eye should strictly be called " triplostichous," since the deep layer is itself doubled or folded.

The white and Asiatic population nearly doubled in the thirteen years since the previous census, allowance being made for the Utrecht and Vryheid districts, which in 1891 formed part of the Transvaal.

He then pursued Schoeman, who doubled on his opponent and entered Potchefstroom.

But the fact that it was to a large extent a struggle with a nation in arms doubled the numbers of the force that the Transvaal executive was able to draw upon.

Pursued closely and finding the rivers in flood De Wet hid some of his men under Kritzinger near the Orange and himself doubled back, traversing again the line of posts east of Bloemfontein.

The upper edge was folded over for a distance equal to the space from neck to waist - this folded portion was called Ior67rTV^y ua or &71-XotS, - and the whole garment was then doubled and wrapped round the body below the armpits, the left side being closed and the right open.

The imports more than doubled the exports.

Do this with every ridge until each ridge is doubled in size.

Soul Exl and Kevin Deville, two of her best friends who also doubled as her production team, were shot and killed.

This was done accordingly, the number of members of the committee being, however, doubled.

The Code enacted that if the father does not, after accepting a man's presents, give him his daughter, he must return the presents doubled.

For speeds over six knots a 14-second glass is employed, and the speed indicated by the log-line is doubled.

Asbury infused new life into the movement, and within a year the membership of the several congregations was more than doubled.