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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs;
- Example: "an egg with a double yolk"
- Example: "a double (binary) star"
- Example: "double doors"
- Example: "dual controls for pilot and copilot"
- Example: "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure"
[syn: double, dual, duple]
2. having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities;
- Example: "a double (or dual) role for an actor"
- Example: "the office of a clergyman is twofold public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson;
- Example: "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison
[syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-fold]
3. a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural);
- Example: "ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dual \Du"al\, a. [L. dualis, fr. duo two. See Two.] Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc., in Greek. [1913 Webster] Here you have one half of our dual truth. --Tyndall. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "dual": Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bifurcated, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bipartisan, bipartite, bivalent, conduplicate, dichotomous, disomatous, double, double-barreled, double-faced, duadic, dualistic, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicated, dyadic, geminate, geminated, identical, matched, paired, second, secondary, twain, twin, twinned, two, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold
