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two of something, or the moment one thing decides to mean twice as much
means Twice as much, or two of the same thing — and as a verb, to make something twice its size or fold it back on itself.
from From Latin 'duplus,' meaning 'twofold,' built from 'duo' (two) and a root tied to 'plicare,' to fold — so a double is literally two-folded. It reached English through Old French 'doble,' and it shares deep family with words like 'duplicate' and 'duplicity,' all carrying that same sense of two pressed into one.
- body double
- actors paid to face danger so stars stay pretty
- doppelganger
- German for the double-walker, an omen of your death
- double helix
- your entire genetic code spirals as two twisted strands
- in tennis
- a double fault hands your opponent a free point
- doubling pennies
- a penny doubled daily beats a million in a month
double fault in tennis — serving error that loses a point, occurs in every match
double helix dna — watson and crick's 1953 discovery of dna's twisted paired structure
double eagle golf — scoring two strokes under par on a hole, albatross in some regions