English Dictionary

double

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdʌbl̩/

名詞

歴史的 ガーンジー英語

Twice the number, amount, size, etc. / A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes / A drink with two portions of alcohol.

日本語の意味

1. 物の数や量、サイズが二倍であること。 / 2. そっくりな人物、または本人の役割を代行する人物。 / 3. アルコールが通常の2倍分含まれている飲み物（ダブルショットなど）。

She ordered a double of espresso to get through the long meeting.

彼女は長い会議を乗り切るために、エスプレッソを通常の2倍注文した。

意味（1）

Twice the number, amount, size, etc.

意味（2）

A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes

Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.

意味（3）

A drink with two portions of alcohol.

On second thought, make that a double.

意味（4）

A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.

According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he commenced telling about one or the other of the eighteen bears he had killed in his time.

意味（5）

A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.

意味（6）

A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.

I have more than 200 stamps in my collection but they're not all unique: some are doubles.

意味（7）

(baseball) A two-base hit.

The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.

意味（8）

(bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.

意味（9）

(billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.

意味（10）

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.

Not only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well.

意味（11）

(darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.

意味（12）

(darts) A hit on this ring.

意味（13）

(dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.

意味（14）

(computing, programming) A double-precision floating-point number.

The sine function returns a double.

意味（15）

(soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.

意味（16）

(rowing) A boat for two scullers.

意味（17）

(sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.

DJ Campbell grabbed a second-half double as Blackpool made Sunderland pay for a host of missed chances to secure a fifth away league win of the season.

意味（18）

(sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.

In 1996, Michael Johnson achieved a double by winning both the 200 and 400 meter dashes.

意味（19）

(historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.

意味（20）

(historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.

As for doubles, they are not worth anything now; and I have still got an egg-cupful my mother used to keep handy to give the baker change from a farthing.

意味（21）

(music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.

意味（22）

(Christianity) A double feast.

意味（23）

Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)

doubles （ plural ）