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UK
/djˈuːəl/
]
[ US /ˈduəɫ, ˈduɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈduəɫ, ˈduɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence
a double (or dual) role for an actor
every episode has its double and treble meaning -
a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek -
consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
an egg with a double yolk
double doors
a double (binary) star
dual controls for pilot and copilot
duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure
How To Use dual In A Sentence
- Nor do I deny that they sometimes abuse their power and are unfair to individuals.
- The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- It makes data generators, multimeters and oscilloscopes, as well as semiconductors, optoelectronic components and RF chip sets - all very complex products that require a great deal of customization for individual customers.
- In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
- He was an exceedingly capable and highly regarded individual. Times, Sunday Times
- In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. Language Log
- The rest of the explanation seeps out gradually as midnight melts into the early hours. Times, Sunday Times
- Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
- The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.