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Doubling   /dˈəbəlɪŋ/  /dˈəblɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Doubling  n.  
1.
The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
2.
A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
3.
(Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
4.
The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
5.
Raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
Synonyms: double.
Doubling a cape, Doubling a promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.


verb
Double  v. t.  (past & past part. doubled; pres. part. doubling)  
1.
To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; as, to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length. "Double six thousand, and then treble that."
2.
To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth. "Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands."
3.
To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. "Thus reenforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way."
4.
To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion. "Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage."
5.
(Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.


Double  v. i.  
1.
To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much. "'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles."
2.
To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction. "Doubling and turning like a hunted hare." "Doubling and doubling with laborious walk."
3.
To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. "What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double."
4.
(Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.





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... overpoweringly imposing seventy years ago, now sounds to us simply powerful. In such symphonies, in order to sharpen our ears, which have become dulled in this respect, we have arrived at the strange necessity of doubling the parts of the stringed instruments in a simple wind instrument ensemble, so as to attain the same effect which old masters attained with a simple distribution of the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various
... America 5,308,000. The former has somewhat more than doubled its population in the century since; America has increased hers about twenty times, and the Mississippi Valley several thousand times. It is not unreasonable to expect the doubling of the population of that valley in another century and ...
— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley
... volume, for which he and Mr. Cadell gave one hundred pounds. The sale was so rapid and extensive, and the approbation of the publick so high, that to their honour be it recorded, the proprietors made Dr. Blair a present first of one sum, and afterwards of another, of fifty pounds, thus voluntarily doubling the stipulated price; and when he prepared another volume, they gave him at once three hundred pounds, being in all five hundred pounds, by an agreement to which I am a subscribing witness; and now for a third octavo volume he has received no less ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... brilliant points of light shining on the coils. The appearance given in the former diagram will be obtained by placing the five septets on one side on the top of those on the other, so that the ten become in appearance five, and thus doubling the whole, the doubling point leaving eleven duads on each side. The composition is, however, much better seen by flattening out the whole. On the proto level the two snakes separate and ...
— Occult Chemistry - Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements • Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater
... OF CITIZENSHIP which lead to controlled votes, bribery and various forms of corruptions, will be accentuated by woman suffrage with the doubling of every dangerous element, hence any effort to postpone its coming is justifiable. Woman suffrage will increase the proportion of intelligent voters. According to the Commissioners of Education there are now one-third more girls in the high schools of the country than boys. ...
— Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment • Various


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