double

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double3 S3 verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]INCREASE IN NUMBER OR AMOUNT to become twice as big or twice as much, or to make something twice as big or twice as much （使）加倍

2 [transitiveT] (also double over/up)FOLD to fold something in half 把…对折

3. [intransitiveI]DSB to hit the ball far enough to get to second base in a game of baseball 〔棒球比赛中〕击出二垒安打

4 double as somebody/something phrasal verbphr v USE somethingto have a second use, job, or purpose as a particular thing 兼任，兼作

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double as • Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt, a bikini top - or even as a scarf.• Then they would sell them to posses from a garage on Bruckner Boulevard that doubled as a muffler repair shop.• Schools often double as daycare or healthcare facilities, or house adult classes and sports activities.• Columns of cast iron doubled as drainpipes and supports for the ceiling, which had domed skylights.• They still carried the ball, but the electors moved from being spectators to doubling as occasional umpires as well.• The serious ones turned out finely crafted, sensitive drawings of the dead that double as somber meditations on death.• The living room, doubling as the bedroom, was full of the odor of her sleep.• Grant engages in some lightweight banter with the radio controller, Mickey, who doubles as the Cutter Boat Club barman.

5 double back phrasal verbphr v RETURNto turn around and go back the way you have come 原路折回

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double back• But Vicenza was half way from Venice to Verona, so if they did that they would all be doubling back.• There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them.• I chased one into a warehouse where he managed to double back and attack me from behind.• They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car.• But our dinner doubled back away from the marksmen and headed over a ridge.• The way moves cast, and then doubles back, labyrinth-like, to head north and up the stairs.

double back on yourself• The box gave out a constant stream of beeps as the Doctor walked, occasionally doubling back on himself.• The compounded logic of stacked loops which doubles back on itself is the source of the strange counterintuitive behaviors of complex circuits.

6 double up phrasal verbphr v

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double with• Then there are the guys who double up with a chick.• Many can't afford their own homes and double up with family.• All the grooms doubled up with laughter.

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double• The mess deck doubles as the movie lounge, with a video library housing thousands of films.• The bass may however, always be doubled at the octave below if desired.• Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.• The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.• In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size.• Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.• In all the nine studies of monitoring, the number of cesarean deliveries was doubled in the group that was monitored.• The federal government has doubled its tax on liquor.• Building costs have doubled since then.• In Leicester youth court, the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates.• Quarterly losses at Freeserve, Britain's biggest internet service provider, doubled to nearly $ 27m.• Cleverly used it will double, treble, even quadruple the size.• So the thought of watching a film in which he doubles, triples and quadruples was frankly a most scary prospect.• Ralph doubled up his blankets and put them at the foot of the bed.

double the size/number/amount etc (of something)• According to a recent survey, one in four new borrowers takes out unemployment insurance, double the number of three years ago.• Her only other suggestion was to double the amount of vanilla, to give it a flavor boost.• In one facetious article he promised to show the government how to double the number of jobs in the railroad industry.• It was the custom then to double the size of most infantry battalions and of many gunner and other units.• Since February buyers have taken up 1.5m bales, double the amount in the same period last year.• Telephone-answering machines, intended to make phoning more efficient, double the number of phone calls made.• The way to outvote them was to double the number of people who held to the old ways.• We will double the number of Safer Cities Schemes to cover 40 urban areas.

double4 adverbadv

1 be bent double BENDto be bent over a long way 弯得很厉害

The trees were almost bent double in the wind.

这些树都快被风吹折了。

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be bent double• The old man was bent double under his load.

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double• As Kasparov knows full well, the years count double once a chess player passes 35.

double5 predeterminer

1 INCREASE IN NUMBER OR AMOUNTtwice as big, twice as much, or twice as many 是…两倍那么大[多]

double the amount/number/size etc

We’ll need double this amount for eight people.

八个人的话我们要加一倍的量。

The value of the house is double what it was.

这幢房子的价值比原来翻了一番。

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double• The house is now worth double the amount we paid for it.• Over 30% of marriages end in divorce, which is double the number 20 years ago.

double the amount/number/size etc• It has just about doubled the amount of candidates.• Telephone-answering machines, intended to make phoning more efficient, double the number of phone calls made.• It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance.• We will double the number of Safer Cities Schemes to cover 40 urban areas.• Her only other suggestion was to double the amount of vanilla, to give it a flavor boost.• It will double the number of vehicles that will come into King's Cross or St. Pancras during the morning peak hours.• This roughly doubles the number of young from a spawning.

From Longman Business Dictionary

doubledoub·le1 /ˈdʌbəl/ adjectiveadj

twice as big, twice as much, or twice as many as usual, or twice as big, much, or many as something else

The number of men receiving professional degrees today is still nearly double that of women.

doubledouble2 noun [countableC, uncountableU]

something that is nearly twice the size, quantity, value, or strength of something else

‘What did they offer you?’ ‘Ten thousand.’ ‘I’ll give you double.’

doubledouble3 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

to become twice as much or as many, or to make something twice as big

The costs of providing medical insurance for employees has doubled in recent years.

GE plans to more than double the size of its railcar leasing operation.

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