(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.
Quintuple
Definition:
(a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
(v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Example Sentences:
(1) The largest increases in brain weights in both sexes occurred during the first 3 years of life, when the value quadruples over that at birth, while during the subsequent 15 years the brain weight barely quintuples over that at birth.
(2) Japan 's 'quintuple dip' recession delivers a fresh blow to Abenomics Read more Economics minister Akira Amari said a lack of workers available for public works projects worth billions of pounds restricted the government’s ability to bolster the economy.
(3) In Types II, III, V and most Type IV capillaries, the interendothelial junctions contained quintuple-layered zones.
(4) 4.40pm BST 83 min: "Somewhere in China there is a factory that makes inflatable plastic sheep that is desperately waiting for the word that they can go ahead and quintuple this summer's production run," says Marie Meyer.
(5) When we infused autologous plasma, incubated with dialyzer cellophane, into rabbits and sheep, sudden leukopenia and hypoxia occurred, with doubling of pulmonary-artery pressures and quintupling of pulmonary-lymph effluent.
(6) By a double-antibody RIA method, we assayed LH and FSH in quintuplicate or triplicate in each sample and counted the tubes twice consecutively.
(7) Almost every constituency party across the country we contacted reported doubling, trebling, quadrupling or even quintupling membership, and a revival of branches that had been moribund for years and close to folding.
(8) Both prothrombin and plasminogen show internal sequence homology resulting from partial gene duplication and quintuplication respectively; each internal homology loop in prothrombin shows significant homology with each of the five putative loops in plasminogen.
(9) One case of grade 1 papillary carcinoma and some of grade 2 showed a small proportion of aneuploid cells; the proportion quintupled in grade 3.
(10) Hyaluronic acid content was determined in quintuplicate colorimetrically after treatment of streptococci with hyaluronidase.
(11) Using standard TAT and CGG homopolymers, single, triple, and quintuple molecular replacements are made.
(12) Single SETi or FETi impulses can initiate an IR contraction, and cause altered phasing, with up to a quintupling of frequency.
(13) When choline replaces Na+ in perfusate and bathing medium, cell volume doubles, and intercellular space volume nearly quintuples.
(14) Profits quintupled compared with the same period in 2012 – in part due to its new UK operation.
(15) After three postwar decades when cheap oil was taken for granted, the oil-importing nations were hit for six by the 1973-74 oil shock, and Healey’s chancellorship was beleaguered by a quintupling of the price of oil.
(16) Polling on the subject is shot through with inconsistencies, but one thing screams out from the data : according to the UK Energy Research Centre, between 2005 and 2013, the share of people who rejected the very idea of climate change almost quintupled, from 4% to 19%.
(17) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
(18) The authors report a case of Werner's syndrome complicated by quintuplicate malignancy, and review the literature data.
(19) About three thousand resin vascular casts of human renal glomeruli were examined with a scanning electron microscope, and two extremely rare glomeruli with quadruple or quintuple efferent arterioles were found.
(20) The result is a large platelike, quintuple-layered structure, 240-260 A thick, whose long axis parallels that of the mitochondrion.