(a.) Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
(a.) Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
(a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
(a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.
(adv.) Twice; doubly.
(a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
(a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.
(a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
(a.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
(a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
(v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
(v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
(v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
(v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
(n.) Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
(n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
(n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
(n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
(n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.
(n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
(n.) Double beer; strong beer.
(n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
(n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
(n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(3) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(6) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(7) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(9) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(10) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
(11) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
(12) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(13) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
(14) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(16) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(17) PNS at 7 Hz approximately doubled mesenteric venous plasma levels of PGE2 in both 16-week-old SHR and WKY, but PNS did not increase levels of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha in either strain.
(18) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(19) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(20) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
Headland
Definition:
(n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
(n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
Example Sentences:
(1) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
(3) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(4) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(5) Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.
(6) We don’t really have a mandate for the conservation of non-native species.” In his blog, Harper argued that managed shoots could “provide beneficial habitat management for wildlife”, including woodland sky-lighting, planting cover crops and creating conservation headlands.
(7) The row of trees and bushes sticking out of the shallow water continued more or less unbroken until it ended at a pointed headland 100m farther down.
(8) The nearby headland is spectacular, and there's lots to enjoy in this stretch of the Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
(9) First, helpful founder Tor McIntosh suggested Exmoor’s National Trust-owned Foreland Bothy , half a mile from Foreland point, a rocky headland a few miles from Lynmouth.
(10) Minute by minute, you can see rock being carved by the elements, out on that headland that divides the town in two.
(11) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
(12) It stretches from the headland called Pointe du Meinga, to the Ile Besnard in the west.
(13) With what little strength I had left, I took two unsteady steps up on to the headland.
(14) Backed by low headlands and no less than three waterfalls, it is easy to linger at Porthsychan for as long as the sun allows.
(15) Only palm trees stand between the hotel and the beach, with a headland right beside it and blazing sunsets across the bay.
(16) And there are the new agri-environment schemes that encourage landowners to put in new hedges and to leave unploughed "headlands" around the arable fields.
(17) The long sweep of beach ends at a headland where beautiful reef pools are exposed by the receding tide, revealing a huge naturally sheltered pool, offering wonderful snorkelling and tropical fish.
(18) His political candidates – such as Wang – can be his employees, and Wang will now employ on his senatorial staff the two people who ran with him on the WA Senate ticket: Chamonix Terblanche and Des Headland.
(19) Credit: Jonas Dahlberg Studio The headland of the Sørbråten memorial will be engraved with names of all the victims; visitors will be able to read them but not reach to touch them.
(20) These 12 rustic yet thoughtfully designed adobe cabanas are on a palmy beach cradled by rocky headlands two miles east of Puerto Angel and about 50 miles from Puerto Escondido.