double vs slug

double

noun
  • A drink with two portions of alcohol. 

  • The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard. 

  • Twice the number, amount, size, etc. 

  • A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger. 

  • A two-base hit. 

  • A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket. 

  • Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately. 

  • A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks. 

  • Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”) 

  • A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race. 

  • A double-precision floating-point number. 

  • A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou. 

  • A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract. 

  • A double feast. 

  • A redundant item for which an identical item already exists. 

  • A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides. 

  • A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes 

  • Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season. 

  • A hit on this ring. 

  • A boat for two scullers. 

  • The feat of scoring twice in one game. 

  • The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition. 

  • A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny. 

adj
  • Folded in two; composed of two layers. 

  • Having two aspects; ambiguous. 

  • False, deceitful, or hypocritical. 

  • Stooping; bent over. 

  • Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals. 

  • Of twice the quantity. 

  • Of time, twice as fast. 

  • Made up of two matching or complementary elements. 

  • Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family. 

  • Designed for two users. 

  • Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower. 

verb
  • To get a two-base hit. 

  • To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc). 

  • To serve a second role or have a second purpose. 

  • To turn sharply, following a winding course. 

  • To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size. 

  • To fold over so as to make two folds. 

  • To operate as a double agent. 

  • To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. 

  • (often followed by together or up) To join or couple. 

  • To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument). 

  • To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc). 

  • To double down. 

  • To multiply by two. 

  • (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist). 

  • To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract. 

  • To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference. 

  • To multiply the strength or effect of by two. 

  • To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it. 

  • To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. 

  • To repeat exactly; copy. 

  • To sail around (a headland or other point). 

  • To go or march at twice the normal speed. 

  • To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket. 

adv
  • Twice over; twofold; doubly. 

  • Two together; two at a time. (especially in see double) 

slug

noun
  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

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