Word Finder - doubling

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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.

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The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two.

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The act of turning around, or doubling back.

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A pleat or fold.

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A trick; double-dealing.

We're doubling the guards.

The pairing also symbolizes the doubling of the lover's happiness.

An arrow that looks like it is doubling back indicates you should fold and unfold the paper.

If your laundry room is short on space, consider doubling up your decorations with some built-in organization.

Creating a recipe from scratch allows you to make just the amount needed, simply by halving or doubling the recipe, whereas the packaged version contains a particular amount.

But according to the Departrment of Education, your degree can mean doubling the value of your lifetime earnings.

Another way to wear an opera length pearl necklace is to make it into a two-strand choker by doubling the long pearl strand over itself.

Carpooling to the park and doubling up in hotel rooms are still other ways to save some money on your next vacation.

In most people who have CMT, the mutation that causes the condition is a duplication (doubling) of the PMP22 gene.

Heating the milk speeds the process, and doubling the amount of lactase liquid will result in milk that is 90 percent lactose free.

Research has shown a doubling of the number of babies born with this anomaly.

The most ambitious dancers can choose a mode that uses arrows on both dance pads, doubling the playing space, and leaving them jumping from mat to mat.

Call them what you like, but when it comes to the hot summer sun, many people are doubling up on protection by wearing not only sunscreen, but specially designed swimming clothes as well.

This is something you'd discuss with your doctor to determine, obviously, but doubling down on your efforts to get your daily intake certainly won't hurt.

It features its own independent internal motor, thus doubling the power of the Rainbow.

Avoid doubling Pawns - Lining up Pawns in front of each other leaves one Pawn defenseless if the second Pawn is captured.

If the coupon says "no doubling" on the top, you won't be able to use it for the event.

The autism infant studies select siblings of autistic children because they are more likely to have the disorders, with incidence doubling in siblings.

Many employers will offer plans in which they will match your contribution, thus doubling the amount going into your retirement.

The doubling method hides the breasts a little.

Between half a million and three-quarters of a million bikers descend on the city for the rally, nearly doubling the population of the entire state.

Just add to their potency by doubling up with a serum.

Intent on fleeing him as well as the demons, she ran as hard as she could back to the castle before doubling over to catch her breath.

The crack grew fast, flying down the trail towards Gabriel.  The sound of the earth tearing grew louder.  The trees on either side of her expanded, quickly doubling and then quadrupling in size.  Afraid of being crushed between them, Katie darted off the trail towards Andre, who ran ahead of her.

Frankly, the idea of doubling their problems was downright frightening.

The Reason For Doubling The 25 Was To Prevent The New Moons From Being Indicated In The Calendar As Happening Twice .On The Same Day In The Course Of The Lunar Cycle, A Thing Which Actually Cannot Take Place.

This obtains whether in the single, double or more threads joined together in the doubling.

The ground being prepared and, if necessary, enriched, and the surface made fine and smooth, a hole is made with the dibble deep enough and large enough to receive the roots of the seedling plants without doubling them up, and the hole is filled in by working the soil close to the plant with the point of the dibble.

The doubling process is provided by the act of fertilization, where an antherozoid with the single number of chromosomes fuses with an oosphere also with the single number to provide a fertilized egg with the double number.

And similarly in the development of a complicated organism, the suppression or doubling of a single cell or group of cells may bring about striking differences in the symmetry of the adult, or the reduction or increase in the number of metameric organs.

The expedition under Vasco da Gama started from Lisbon five years later, and, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, cast anchor off the city of Calicut on the 10th of May 1498, after a prolonged voyage of nearly eleven months.

If both the bodies are luminous, especially if they do not differ much in brilliancy, the motion of revolution is shown by a periodic doubling of the lines of the spectrum; when one body is moving towards us and the other away their spectral lines are displaced (according to Doppler's principle) in opposite directions, so that all the lines strong enough to appear in both spectra appear double; when the two bodies are in conjunction, and therefore moving transversely, their spectra are merged into one and show nothing unusual.

Legalism was joined with sacramentarianism, doubling the power of the priest.

The doublings play a very important part in the appearance of the ultimate rove and yarn, for the chief reason for doubling threads or slivers is to minimize irregularities of thickness and of colour in the material.

In this operation there is no doubling of the slivers, but each sliver passes separately through the machine, from the can to the spindle, is drawn out to about eight times its length, and receives a small amount of twist to strengthen it, in order that it may be successfully wound upon the roving bobbin by the flyer.

The next five years saw nearly another doubling of length of lines, for at the end of 1845 there were 2441 m.

The curve obtained on joining the former points then brings out a number of facts, foremost among which are (1) that as long as the conditions remain constant the doubling periods - i.e.

It was also shown that exposure to light, dilution or exhaustion of the food-media, the presence of traces of poisons or metabolic products check growth or even bring it to a standstill; and the death or injury of any single cell in the filamentous series shows its effect on the curve by lengthening the doubling period, because its potential progeny have been put out of play.

Since that time the progress of the city has been rapid and substantial, the population doubling every twenty years.

In 1815 the total quantity of raw cotton imported into the United Kingdom was not more than 99 millions of pounds, which amount had increased to 152 millions of pounds in 1820, and rose further to 229 millions in 1825, so that there was considerably more than a doubling of the imports in ten years.

If, for example, in the case of a hundred such districts we watch the result of leaving them alone, a gradual growth of leakage common to most of the districts, but not to all, is observed, while here and there a sudden increase occurs, often doubling or trebling the total supply to the district.

He suggested that the cost of these measures should be defrayed by extending the income tax to Ireland to industrial incomes of 100 and to permanent incomes of 50 a year, as well as by doubling the house tax, and extending it to all 10 householders.

The Bavarian dream dissipated, victories gained in Flanders by Marshal Saxe, another adventurer of genius, at Fontenoy, Raucoux and Lawfeld (1745-1747), were hailed with joy as continuing those of Louis XIV.; even though they resulted in the loss of Germany and the doubling of English armaments.

With this mineral also spherical and chromatic aberration are a fraction of that of a glass lens, but double refraction, which involves a doubling of the image, is fatal to its use.

These motets are usually in the vernacular and usually expect only continuo accompaniment, tho some do have optional instrumental doubling parts.

The halving becket, often called the doubling or double bag becket, is put on and the cod line rove.

Remember that many patients have low serum creatinine initially therefore a good guide to toxicity is a doubling of the initial creatinine.

The outcome was development of end stage renal disease or doubling of serum creatinine.

The doubling cube is used to record the current amount of the stake.

There are fifteen white disks, fifteen black disks, two dice, two dice shakers and a doubling cube.