English

Verb

1. past of double

• Body double, someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character
• Doppelgänger, ghostly double of a living person

• Doublebugg, a dancesport which is performed by three dancers.
• Double (baseball), two-base hit in baseball
• Double, a snooker shot where the player tries to pot a ball via one cushion
• The Double, to win a country's top division and its main cup competition in the same season in football
• Double (cricket), the feat of scoring a thousand first-class runs and taking a hundred first-class wickets in a single season.

• Double, action in games, including bridge and backgammon, whereby a competitor raises the stakes to around twice their previous level
• Double, villain in the video game Mega Man X4
• In dancing games like Dance Dance Revolution or In the Groove, a mode of play in which a single player uses twice as many pads as normal (e.g. 8 instead of 4)

• DOUBLE (singer)
• Double (band), Swiss pop duo that had their biggest hit in 1986 with "Captain of Her Heart"
• Double variation, a variation form in music

• Double, a bet which combines two selections
• Double, former fraction of the Guernsey pound
• Double precision, computer numbering format that occupies two storage locations in computer memory at address and address+1
• Double negative, in language
• Double-banded
• Double-crested
• Double-ended
• Double-eyed
• Double-headed
• Double-lined
• Double-spurred
• Double-striped
• Double-Tongued

See also

• Duplication
• Single