Palabras en English para 'complementing each other'
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noun
- The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
- (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
- The state or characteristic of being complementary.
- (philosophy of science) The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
- (linguistics, philosophy, semantics) A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
- the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other
- a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities
adj
- the other one of a complementary pair
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
prep
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
adv
adj
- Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
- (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
- of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
noun
verb
adj
noun
prep
- Done together or reciprocally.
- Taking together the combined effect of.
- In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.)
- Shared in confidence.
- In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).
- One of (representing a choice).
- Combined (by effort or ownership).
noun
adv
adj
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
- additional but secondary; auxiliary;
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- serving to support or corroborate
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- situated or running side by side
noun
- (finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
- a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
adv
- in each other's company
- at the same time
- in contact with each other or in proximity
- with a common plan
- assembled in one place
- with cooperation and interchange
- In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
- At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
- Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
- Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
adj
noun
- a pair who associate with one another
- (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
- a pair of people who live together
- a small indefinite number
- two items of the same kind
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (architecture) A couple-close.
- (informal) A small number.
- (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- link together
- (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
- (horse racing, transitive) To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
- (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
adj
det
noun
- a pair who associate with one another
- a musical composition for two performers
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- two performers or singers who perform together
- two items of the same kind
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
verb
noun
- a pair who associate with one another
- a musical composition for two performers
- two performers or singers who perform together
- two items of the same kind
- A meal with two paired components.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- Any pair of people.
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
- (musician group) Two musicians who perform music together.
- A song in two parts; a duet.
adj
noun
- (linguistics, rare) Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
- (logic, linguistics) Either term of a conjunction.
- (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.
adv
adj
noun
noun
- Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
- (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
- One who or that which resembles another.
- One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
- (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
- a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
- a duplicate copy
verb
noun
- A reciprocal relationship.
- The characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
- (grammar) A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.
- (international law) The mutual exchange of rights, privileges or obligations between nations. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocity (international relations).
- (psychology) The responses of individuals to the actions of others.
- A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.
- a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
- mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges
adv
adj
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- twice as great or many
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- large enough for two
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Stooping; bent over.
noun
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
- 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.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
verb
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make or do or perform again
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
prefix
adj
noun
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
verb
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
verb
noun
noun
- The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
- (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
noun
- The state or characteristic of being complementary.
- (philosophy of science) The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
- (linguistics, philosophy, semantics) A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
- the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other
- a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities
noun
- a pair who associate with one another
- (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
- a pair of people who live together
- a small indefinite number
- two items of the same kind
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (architecture) A couple-close.
- (informal) A small number.
- (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- link together
- (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
- (horse racing, transitive) To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
- (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
adj
det
noun
- a pair who associate with one another
- a musical composition for two performers
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- two performers or singers who perform together
- two items of the same kind
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
verb
noun
- a pair who associate with one another
- a musical composition for two performers
- two performers or singers who perform together
- two items of the same kind
- A meal with two paired components.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- Any pair of people.
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
- (musician group) Two musicians who perform music together.
- A song in two parts; a duet.
noun
- Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
- (law) A duplicate of a legal document.
- One who or that which resembles another.
- One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
- (paleontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.
- a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
- a duplicate copy
verb
noun
- A reciprocal relationship.
- The characteristic of being reciprocal, e.g. of a relationship between people.
- (grammar) A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.
- (international law) The mutual exchange of rights, privileges or obligations between nations. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocity (international relations).
- (psychology) The responses of individuals to the actions of others.
- A relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.
- a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
- mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges
noun
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
verb
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
adv
- in each other's company
- at the same time
- in contact with each other or in proximity
- with a common plan
- assembled in one place
- with cooperation and interchange
- In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
- At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
- Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
- Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
adj
adv
adj
noun
adv
adj
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- twice as great or many
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- large enough for two
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Stooping; bent over.
noun
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
- 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.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
verb
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make or do or perform again
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
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- the other one of a complementary pair
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
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- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
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- Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
- (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
- of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
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- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
- additional but secondary; auxiliary;
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- serving to support or corroborate
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- situated or running side by side
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- (finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
- a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
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- (linguistics, rare) Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
- (logic, linguistics) Either term of a conjunction.
- (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.