doubling
Speech parts
1. doubling - Noun
2. doubling - Verb
Meaning
of Double
The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
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Examples
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
Observers in earlier epochs might have found it equally preposterous to suppose that the world economy would one day be doubling several times within a single lifespan. Yet that is the extraordinary condition we now take to be ordinary.
We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words and conduct be perfectly pure - such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek.... If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.