'Doubling' definitions:
Definition of 'doubling'
From: WordNet
noun
Increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"
noun
Raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double]
Definition of 'Doubling'
From: GCIDE
- Doubling \Dou"bling\, n.
- 1. The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor. [1913 Webster]
- 5. raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
- Syn: double. [WordNet 1.5]
- Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Doubling'
From: GCIDE
- Double \Dou"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doubled; p. pr. & vb. n. Doubling.] [OE. doblen, dublen, doublen, F. doubler, fr. L. duplare, fr. duplus. See Double, a.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Double six thousand, and then treble that. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. [1913 Webster]
- Thus re["e]nforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion. [1913 Webster]
- Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'doubling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- bush,
- bushing,
- conduplication,
- conjugation,
- copying,
- crease,
- creasing,
- crimp,
- dichotomy,
- dog-ear,
- double,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doublure,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplicate,
- duplication,
- duplicature,
- duplicity,
- echo,
- equivocality,
- facing,
- filler,
- filling,
- flection,
- flexure,
- flounce,
- fold,
- frill,
- gather,
- gemination,
- halving,
- imitation,
- ingemination,
- inlay,
- inlayer,
- insole,
- interlineation,
- irony,
- iteration,
- Janus,
- lapel,
- lappet,
- liner,
- lining,
- packing,
- padding,
- pairing,
- plagiarism,
- plica,
- plication,
- plicature,
- ply,
- polarity,
- quotation,
- reappearance,
- rebirth,
- recurrence,
- redoubling,
- reduplication,
- reecho,
- regurgitation,
- reincarnation,
- reiteration,
- renewal,
- reoccurrence,
- repetition,
- replication,
- reproduction,
- resumption,
- return,
- ruche,
- ruching,
- ruffle,
- stuffing,
- tuck,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- wadding,
- wainscot
Words containing 'Doubling'
- Double,
- Doubled,
- Doubleness,
- double over,
- double up,
- doubles,
- on the double,
- Double Oak,
- Double Springs,
- Double base,
- Double bass,
- Double convex,
- Double counterpoint,
- Double court,
- Double dagger,
- Double dealer,
- Double dealing,
- Double drum,
- Double eagle,
- Double entry,
- Double first,
- Double floor,
- Double flower,
- Double fugue,
- Double geared,
- Double letter,
- Double note,
- Double octave,
- Double pedro,
- Double pica,
- Double play,
- Double plea,
- Double point,
- Double position,
- Double quarrel,
- Double refraction,
- Double riveting,
- Double salt,
- Double shuffle,
- Double standard,
- Double star,
- Double sulphide,
- Double tansy,
- Double time,
- Double window,
- Doubling a cape,
- To double upon,
- daily double,
- double Corposant,
- double Dutch,
- double agent,
- double back,
- double bar,
- double bassoon,
- double bed,
- double bind,
- double birdie,
- double blind,
- double bogey,
- double boiler,
- double bond,
- double check,
- double chin,
- double clinch,
- double cream,
- double creme,
- double crochet,
- double cross,
- double damages,
- double date,
- double decomposition,
- double diapason,
- double digit,
- double dipper,
- double dipping,
- double door,
- double dribble,
- double dye,
- double edged,
- double entendre,
- double fault,
- double feature,
- double flat,
- double glazing,
- double gloucester,
- double gold,
- double header,
- double helix,
- double indemnity,
- double jeopardy,
- double knit,
- double meaning,
- double negative,
- double obelisk,
- double personality,
- double pneumonia,
- double quick,
- double quotes,
- double reed,
- double reverse,
- double rhyme,
- double saucepan,
- double sawbuck,
- double sharp,
- double spare,
- double stitch,
- double stopping,
- double take,
- double talk,
- double tongue,
- double tonguing,
- double transfer,
- double vision,
- line double,
- see double,
- Bookkeeping by double entry,
- Double Oak, TX,
- Double Springs, AL,
- Double elephant paper,
- Double image micrometer,
- Double refraction micrometer,
- Double-acting,
- Double-bank,
- Double-banked,
- Double-barreled,
- Double-breasted,
- Double-charge,
- Double-decker,
- Double-dye,
- Double-dyed,
- Double-ender,
- Double-entendre,
- Double-eyed,
- Double-faced,
- Double-handed,
- Double-headed,
- Double-hearted,
- Double-hung,
- Double-lock,
- Double-milled,
- Double-minded,
- Double-quick,
- Double-ripper,
- Double-surfaced,
- Double-threaded,
- Double-tongue,
- Double-tongued,
- Double-tonguing,
- To work double tides,
- double Spanish burton,
- double decomposition reaction,
- double leg circle,
- double replacement reaction,
- double-barrelled,
- double-bass,
- double-bedded,
- double-bogey,
- double-check,
- double-chinned,
- double-cross,
- double-crosser,
- double-crossing,
- double-date,
- double-dealer,
- double-dealing,
- double-edged,
- double-geared,
- double-glaze,
- double-humped,
- double-jointed,
- double-magnum,
- double-park,
- double-prop,
- double-shade,
- double-space,
- double-spaced,
- double-spacing,
- double-team,
- double-u,
- freedom from double jeopardy,
- Double-beat valve,
- Double-framed floor,
- Double-headed rail,
- To double-bank an oar,
- contrabass double-bass,
- cross double fitch'e,
- double standard of sexual behavior,
- double-bitted ax,
- double-bitted axe,
- double-blind experiment,
- double-blind procedure,
- double-blind study,
- double-breasted jacket,
- double-breasted suit,
- double-entry bookkeeping,
- double-hung window,
- double-propeller plane,
- double-reed instrument,
- line-drive double