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- Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
- (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
- (category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
- (mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
- (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
- Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
noun
- Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
- (geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
- (wrestling) A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges.
- (grammar) The dual number.
- (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
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- A pair of; composed of two.
- Both: referring to two as a set.
- Two in number.
- Twice.
- (anatomy) Bilateral, on both sides of the body.
- Being different in two ways with respect to the root.
- Forked, divided by two, halved; (chemistry, proscribed) half
- Every two; a rate of once every two.
- Having or possessing two of the root word's quality.
- (before a vowel) Alternative form of bio-.
- Double, twofold.
- (chemistry) Used for the digit two to form systematic element names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name.
- (LGBTQ) Bisexual, relating to bisexuality.
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- A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book.
- A crease or turn that causes something to double back on itself.
- A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center.
- (carpentry) A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other.
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- Two.
- Both, possessing two distinct (possibly opposing) qualities.
- Alternative form of dis-: split, to split; shortened before l, m, n, r, s (followed by a consonant), and v; also often shortened before g, and sometimes before j.
- Double, twice the quantity.
- Alternative form of dia-: across or through, before a vowel.
- A pair.
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- (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.
- 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
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- (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.
- 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
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- (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.
- 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)
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- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
- (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
- Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
- An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
- (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- A word ladder puzzle.
- a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
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- Between.
- (anatomy) Referring to the mesentery.
- Quasi or partial.
- (anatomy) Mesial in location, position, or direction: towards the midline of the body.
- The middle of a time period, or medium in duration.
- Between a macro- scale and micro- scale in scope or analysis.
- Intermediate between two properties or characteristics.
- Moderate, medium in quantity.
- (chemistry) Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member.
- Medium in size.
- Middle or centre in location/position.
- Normal, average, or typical.
- (dentistry) The forward side of a tooth.
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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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- one from the other
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- away from another or others
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- into parts or pieces
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
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- one of a pair
- a man who is the lover of a man or woman
- a person who is member of one's class or profession
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a boy or man
- a member of a learned society
- an informal form of address for a man
- (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
- (chiefly British) A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
- A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
- Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
- (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
- (chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
- An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
- Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
- (US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
- (Canada, US) A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
- (specifically, British, historical) A senior member of an Inn of Court.
- (US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
- (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
- (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
- (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
- (chiefly in the plural) One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
- (by extension, often humorous or ironic) An animal or object.
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- one of a pair
- 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
- 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
- (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.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (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.
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- 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
- (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.
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- Either, both; having two distinct properties and able to function as either.
- Intermediate between two properties or characteristics.
- Merging two forms, and/or the fusion or inheritance that results from the combination.
- Surrounding, around, encircling.
- Located on the opposite side of, or referring to two distinct sides or ends of a region or object.
- Happening in two stages.
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- (chiefly Southern US, South Midland US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland, India) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "Who all attended?" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
- The only thing(s).
- Everyone.
- Everything.
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- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- 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 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.
- (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
- a pair who associate with one another
- two items of the same kind
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- (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.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- link together
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- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- number needed to make up a whole force
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
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- 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
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- A person of mixed race or with dual nationality.
- A pizza with two different sets of toppings, one on each half.
- (Western Canada) A cup of coffee with the equivalent of half a packet of sugar and half a creamer of cream.
- (US) A mixture of half lemonade and half iced tea.
- (slang) Both oral sex and vaginal sex performed in sequence by a prostitute
- (UK) A combination of beer and ale (or similar alcoholic drinks) in equal quantities.
- (US) A mixture of cream and milk often used in coffee, defined by the US Food and Drug Administration to contain between 10.5% and 18% milk fat.
- A mixture of two alcoholic beverages, most frequently those brewed from malt, such as porter and ale or mild and bitter beers, in about equal parts; also used for equal parts of an alcoholic beverage and water.
- (UK, Ireland) A combination of both rice and chips as an accompaniment to a curry, as opposed to one or the other.
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- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
- consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
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- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (finance) Synonym of binary option.
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system
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- Having two sides.
- (of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
- (anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family (bilateral linearity).
- Involving both sides equally.
- Having bilateral symmetry.
- affecting or undertaken by two parties
- having identical parts on each side of an axis
- having two sides or parts
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- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- two items of the same kind
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- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
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- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
- (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
- Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
- An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
- (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- A word ladder puzzle.
- a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
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- one of a pair
- a man who is the lover of a man or woman
- a person who is member of one's class or profession
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a boy or man
- a member of a learned society
- an informal form of address for a man
- (chiefly in the plural) An animal which is a member of a breed or species, or a flock, herd, etc.
- (chiefly British) A scholar appointed to a fellowship, that is, a paid academic position held for a certain period which usually requires the scholar to conduct research.
- A (senior) member of a learned or professional society.
- Usually qualified by an adjective or used in the plural: an individual or person regardless of gender.
- (informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.
- (chiefly in the negative) A person with abilities, achievements, skills, etc., equal to those of another person; a thing with characteristics, worth, etc., equal to those of another thing.
- An honorary title bestowed by a college or university upon a distinguished person (often an alumna or alumnus).
- Originally, one of a group of academics who make up a college or similar educational institution; now, a senior member of a college or similar educational institution involved in teaching, research, and management of the institution.
- (US) A senior researcher or technician in a corporation, especially one engaged in research and development.
- (Canada, US) A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training program).
- (specifically, British, historical) A senior member of an Inn of Court.
- (US) A member of a college or university who manages its business interests.
- (chiefly in the plural) An object which is associated with another object; especially, as part of a set.
- (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
- (also attributively) A person or thing comparable in characteristics with another person or thing; especially, as belonging to the same class or group.
- (chiefly in the plural) One in the same condition, or situation of need, as another.
- (by extension, often humorous or ironic) An animal or object.
noun
- one of a pair
- 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
- 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
- (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.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (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.
verb
- 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
- (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.
noun
adj
- Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
- (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
- (category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
- (mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
- (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
- Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
noun
- Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
- (geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
- (wrestling) A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges.
- (grammar) The dual number.
- (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
verb
noun
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- 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 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.
- (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
- a pair who associate with one another
- two items of the same kind
adj
det
verb
- (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.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- link together
noun
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- number needed to make up a whole force
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
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
noun
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- two items of the same kind
verb
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
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- (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.
- 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
noun
- (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.
- 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
verb
- (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.
- 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)
adv
- one from the other
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time
- away from another or others
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
- into parts or pieces
- Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
- In or into two or more parts.
- To the side; aside.
- Separately, exclusively, not together.
adj
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adv
adj
det
noun
pron
- (chiefly Southern US, South Midland US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland, India) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "Who all attended?" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
- The only thing(s).
- Everyone.
- Everything.
adv
adj
noun
- A person of mixed race or with dual nationality.
- A pizza with two different sets of toppings, one on each half.
- (Western Canada) A cup of coffee with the equivalent of half a packet of sugar and half a creamer of cream.
- (US) A mixture of half lemonade and half iced tea.
- (slang) Both oral sex and vaginal sex performed in sequence by a prostitute
- (UK) A combination of beer and ale (or similar alcoholic drinks) in equal quantities.
- (US) A mixture of cream and milk often used in coffee, defined by the US Food and Drug Administration to contain between 10.5% and 18% milk fat.
- A mixture of two alcoholic beverages, most frequently those brewed from malt, such as porter and ale or mild and bitter beers, in about equal parts; also used for equal parts of an alcoholic beverage and water.
- (UK, Ireland) A combination of both rice and chips as an accompaniment to a curry, as opposed to one or the other.
adj
- Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.
- (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
- (category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
- (mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
- (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
- Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
noun
- Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
- (geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
- (wrestling) A head-to-head match or meet between two teams, such as two high schools or colleges.
- (grammar) The dual number.
- (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
verb
adj
noun
- A wallet, billfold, or carrying case with a single fold, so that it opens like a book.
- A crease or turn that causes something to double back on itself.
- A sheet of paper or cardboard folded in half along a crease down the center.
- (carpentry) A door, window, shutter, or divider consisting of two equal panels hinged together so that it opens by folding the panels against each other.
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.
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
prep
adj
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters, or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- (biology, sociology) Having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns such states.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- Being in one of two mutually exclusive states.
- of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base
- consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms)
noun
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary star.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary asteroid.
- (astronomy) Synonym of binary planet.
- A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
- (computing) Synonym of binary file.
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (finance) Synonym of binary option.
- a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
- a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system
adj
- Having two sides.
- (of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
- (anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family (bilateral linearity).
- Involving both sides equally.
- Having bilateral symmetry.
- affecting or undertaken by two parties
- having identical parts on each side of an axis
- having two sides or parts