DOUBLET
\dˈʌblət], \dˈʌblət], \d_ˈʌ_b_l_ə_t]\
Definitions of DOUBLET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
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A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
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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.
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Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
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A game somewhat like backgammon.
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One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
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A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
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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.
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Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
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A game somewhat like backgammon.
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One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A duplicate; one of a pair; a close-fitting garment for men, worn in western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A pair: an inner garment: name given to words that are really the same, but vary somewhat in spelling and signification, as desk, disc and dish, describe and descry.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A garment fitting close to the body with skirts extending a little below the girdle; a jerkin; a waistcoat; one of a pair; a word radically the same as another but differing in form and meaning; a counterfeit stone composed of two pieces of crystal with a colour between them; a double.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A man's inner garment; a waistcoat; originally a garment in folds or doubles for defence; two; a pair.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A magnifying glass composed of two lenses superposed the smaller one of which, near the eye, receives the rays refracted by the larger one near the object before they reach their focus.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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