n
(informal) One's highest level of performance; one's best form.
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(physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
n
(animation, video games) A brief delay between an action and the consequences of that action that has no physical cause and exists only for comedic or gameplay purposes.
adv
(music) Repeat from the beginning up to the word fine ("end").
n
The relative difficulty of completing a task or objective.
v
(intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
v
(business) To charge twice for a good or service.
adj
(idiomatic) Of a single resource, reserved for two different users at the same time.
n
(slang) Overtime paid at twice the normal rate.
n
The extended workload of a person who works double days.
v
Alternative form of double-dip [(informal) To dip a piece of food (e.g. a chip) into a communal sauce container after already having taken a bite of the food.]
n
(law) A clause in an insurance policy in which the insurance company agrees to pay out double the normal coverage in certain specified circumstances, most often in case of accidental death
v
(intransitive) To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose.
v
(transitive) To book or reserve something for two people simultaneously.
n
(informal) The drawing of a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or of two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
v
(intransitive) To serve in two roles simultaneously.
v
(intransitive) To double-time, march (or rather run) at the above speedy pace.
v
(transitive, by extension) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of two people.
v
(transitive, military) To order troops to march at double time.
v
Alternative form of double-time [(intransitive, military) To march at double time.]
v
(juggling) To make a series of duplex throws.
n
(figuratively) The final stage of an extended process or course of events, especially with the implication of the imminent realization of a masterful strategy or plan.
n
Alternative form of four of a kind [(card games) Four cards of the same rank.]
n
The activity of one who freestyles.
n
A cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Horton Conway, consisting of a grid of cells that are either "alive" or "dead" and grow or diminish based on the number of adjacent living cells.
v
(intransitive) To perform on stage; to act in a play.
n
(military) A fast marching pace of 120 thirty-inch steps per minute.
n
Alternative spelling of spiel [A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.]
adj
(game theory) Of an asymmetric game where players have private information: such that there is no incentive for any of the players to hide or lie about their private information from the other players.
n
(film, television) A type of body double: a skilled stand-in used for dangerous film or video sequences such as jumping out of a building, leaping from vehicle to vehicle, and fight sequences.
n
A ludicrous act carried out by a television network to improve their ratings during sweeps week.
v
(informal) To act (perform in a play etc.).
n
Alternative form of three of a kind [(card games) A hand including three cards of the same rank.]
n
A particularly complex or challenging problem or puzzle.
n
(medicine) A test of fitness in which a person exercises for a defined period
n
Alternative form of timepleaser [(obsolete) A timeserver, slavish follower of contemporary fashions]
n
(obsolete) Someone who honours their commitments only when it is personally easy to do so.
v
(humorous or dated, figuratively) To work as an theater actor.
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(business) To charge three times for a good or service.
v
(transitive) To unfold, or render single.
n
The solving of a riddle.
n
An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.
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