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prefix
- A pair.
- 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.
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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verb
noun
adj
- the other one of a complementary pair
- 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.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (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
noun
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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.
prefix
- A pair of; composed of two.
- 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.
- Both: referring to two as a set.
- (LGBTQ) Bisexual, relating to bisexuality.
noun
- 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
prefix
verb
- To pair again.
- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
- To transfer oneself to another place.
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give new life or energy to
- move, travel, or proceed toward some place
- make amends for; pay compensation for
- set straight or right
noun
- A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- The result of repairing something.
- The act of repairing something.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- a formal way of referring to the condition of something
- the act of putting something in working order again
- a frequently visited place
verb
noun
name
verb
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
- form a pair or pairs
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- 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.
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noun
- (US) A twin size mattress; or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A friendly term of address, typically for men.
- (crystallography) A twin crystal.
- either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a duplicate copy
verb
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
- (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give birth to twins
- grow as twins
- duplicate or match
noun
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
adj
- Joined together in pairs.
- joined together especially in a pair or pairs
- (organic chemistry, of an organic compound or part of such a compound) Containing one or more pairs of double bonds and/or lone pairs, each pair being separated by a single bond.
- formed by the union of two compounds
- of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
verb
verb
- occur in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- (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.
noun
- 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
- (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 alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- 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.
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noun
- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
- (music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
- (sociology) The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- (biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- (sociology) Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
- (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- (mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.
- (biology) A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
- two items of the same kind
noun
adj
- of the remaining member of a pair
- not divisible by two
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- not used up
- not easily explained
- an indefinite quantity more than that specified
- (not comparable) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- (not comparable) Numbered with an odd number.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- (not comparable) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- (not comparable) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- (not comparable) Not regular or planned.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- (not comparable) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- (not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- (sports) On the left.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
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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.
adj
- joined together especially in a pair or pairs
- United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets
- formed by the union of two compounds
- of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
- (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
- (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
- (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
- (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
noun
- a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A
- (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- (mathematics) An explementary angle.
- (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
- (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
- (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
- (anatomy, obstetrics) A type of pelvic measurement.
- Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
verb
- unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
- undergo conjugation
- add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.
- (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
- (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
- (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
- (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
adj
noun
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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
- 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
noun
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
- form a pair or pairs
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- 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.
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noun
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- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
- (music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
- (sociology) The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- (biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- (sociology) Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
- (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- (mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.
- (biology) A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
- two items of the same kind
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.
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noun
verb
- To pair again.
- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
- To transfer oneself to another place.
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give new life or energy to
- move, travel, or proceed toward some place
- make amends for; pay compensation for
- set straight or right
noun
- A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- The result of repairing something.
- The act of repairing something.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- a formal way of referring to the condition of something
- the act of putting something in working order again
- a frequently visited place
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noun
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- occur in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- (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.
noun
- 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
- (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 alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- 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.
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
- form a pair or pairs
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- 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.
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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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noun
adj
- the other one of a complementary pair
- 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.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (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.
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noun
- (US) A twin size mattress; or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A friendly term of address, typically for men.
- (crystallography) A twin crystal.
- either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a duplicate copy
verb
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
- (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give birth to twins
- grow as twins
- duplicate or match
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
- Joined together in pairs.
- joined together especially in a pair or pairs
- (organic chemistry, of an organic compound or part of such a compound) Containing one or more pairs of double bonds and/or lone pairs, each pair being separated by a single bond.
- formed by the union of two compounds
- of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
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verb
adj
- of the remaining member of a pair
- not divisible by two
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
- not used up
- not easily explained
- an indefinite quantity more than that specified
- (not comparable) Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- (not comparable) Numbered with an odd number.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- (not comparable) Used or employed for odd jobs.
- (not comparable) Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- (not comparable) Not regular or planned.
- Out of the way, secluded.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- (not comparable) Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- (not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- (not comparable, in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- (sports) On the left.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.
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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.
adj
- joined together especially in a pair or pairs
- United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets
- formed by the union of two compounds
- of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
- (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
- (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
- (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
- (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
noun
- a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A
- (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- (mathematics) An explementary angle.
- (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
- (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
- (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
- (anatomy, obstetrics) A type of pelvic measurement.
- Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
verb
- unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
- undergo conjugation
- add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.
- (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
- (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
- (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
- (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.