Usually means: Twice the amount or size.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word double:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. double: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. double, double: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double: Vocabulary.com
  6. Double, double: Wordnik
  7. double: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Double, double: Wiktionary
  9. double: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. double: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. double: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Double, double: Dictionary.com
  13. double: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. double: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Double (BoA song), Double (Zhao Wei album), Double (association football), Double (band), Double (baseball), Double (baseball statistics), Double (basketball), Double (cricket), Double (disambiguation), Double (lunar crater), Double (manifold), Double (singer), Double (volleyball), Double, The Double (Dostoevsky novel), The Double (Dostoyevsky novel), The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel), The Double (Gaelic games), The Double (Saramago novel), The Double (Seattle Mariners), The Double (rugby league): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. double: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Double: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. double: Robb: German English
  19. double: Free Dictionary
  20. double: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. double: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. double: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. The Double, The double: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. Double: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. double: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. double: Rhymezone
  27. double, double: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Double: Ballet

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  4. double: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. double: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Double: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. double: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Double: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. double: Rhododendron Glossary
  4. double: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. double, double, double, double, double, double, double, double: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. double: The Folk File
  3. Double: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. The Double, double, double: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Double: Backgammon
  2. Double: Fifthchair Bridge
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Double: Bicycle Glossary
  5. Double: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
adjective:  Of twice the quantity.
adjective:  Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
adjective:  Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
adjective:  Folded in two; composed of two layers.
adjective:  Stooping; bent over.
adjective:  Having two aspects; ambiguous.
adjective:  False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
adjective:  Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
adjective:  (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
adjective:  (music) Of time, twice as fast.
adverb:  Twice over; twofold; doubly.
adverb:  Two together; two at a time.
adverb:  Into two halves or sections.
noun:  Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
noun:  A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
noun:  A drink with two portions of alcohol.
noun:  A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
noun:  A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
noun:  A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
noun:  (baseball) A two-base hit.
noun:  (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
noun:  (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
noun:  A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
noun:  (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
noun:  (darts) A hit on this ring.
noun:  (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
noun:  (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
noun:  (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
noun:  (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
noun:  (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
noun:  (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
noun:  (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
noun:  (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
noun:  (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
noun:  (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
noun:  (Christianity) A double feast.
noun:  Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
noun:  (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
verb:  (transitive) To multiply by two.
verb:  (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
verb:  To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
verb:  (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
verb:  (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
verb:  (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
verb:  (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
verb:  (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
verb:  (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
verb:  (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
verb:  (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
verb:  (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
verb:  (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
verb:  (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
verb:  (card games, intransitive) To double down.
verb:  (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
verb:  (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
verb:  (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
verb:  (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
verb:  (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
verb:  (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (US, motor racing) Collectively, both the Indianapolis 500, a day race, and the Coca-Cola 600, an evening race, both of which are run on Memorial Day weekend Sunday. Used concerning racers who (wish[/ed/ing] to) participat[e/ed/ing] in both events, typically using a private jet to travel between Indianapolis, Indiana, after the 500 and Charlotte, North Carolina, to get to the 600.

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