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Dual

adjective

Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs. Synonyms: double, duple. "A double (binary) star" , "Double doors" , "Dual controls for pilot and copilot" , "Duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure"

Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities. Synonyms: double, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold. "The office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence" , "Every episode has its double and treble meaning"

A grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural).

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"Dual" Quotes from Famous Books

... offend us, who have no right at all to be his match on his own ground. Besides, there is a very curious sense of satisfaction in getting a fair chance to sneer at ourselves and scoff at our own pretensions. The first person of our dual consciousness has been smirking and rubbing his hands and felicitating himself on his innumerable superiorities, until we have grown a little tired of him. Then, when the other fellow, the critic, the cynic, the Shimei, who has been quiet, letting self-love and self-glorification have their perfect ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... millionaire Jack went under a most radical change. He was an adept at disguises, and no one would ever have suspected in the young Spaniard who could not speak English the real Jack Alvarez, the acute detective. Our hero arranged to play a dual role, and it was as Jack Alvarez he met the baron. There had come a complete change over the demeanor of the baron. He appeared to have money, and he actually invited our hero to dine with him and Jack accepted the invitation, and during the ...

— A Successful Shadow - A Detective's Successful Quest • Harlan Page Halsey

... always attend church and symphony concerts. This dual custom is considered respectable and cultured. Lora's parents during their lifetime never missed the Theodore Thomas concerts and the sermons of a certain famous local preacher; but there were times when the young woman longed for Carmen and the delights of fashionable Bohemia. ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... the glasses while Ned assumed control of the Hawk, there being a dual system for operating and ...

— Tom Swift and his War Tank - or, Doing his Bit for Uncle Sam • Victor Appleton

... "This dual Government business," he said, "can only end in a duel between the two Governments, and it must be a duel to the death of one ...

— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert

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