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Webster 1913 Edition
Twice
Twice
(twīs)
, adv.
1.
Two times; once and again.
He
twice
essayed to cast his son in gold. Dryden.
2.
Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree;
as,
. twice
the sum; he is twice
as fortunate as his neighbor☞Twice is used in the formation of compounds, mostly self-explaining;
as,
. twice
-born, twice
-conquered, twice
-planted, twice
-told, and the likeWebster 1828 Edition
Twice
TWICE
,adv.
He twice essay'd to cast his son in gold.
1.
Doubly; as twice the sum. He is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.2.
Twice is used in composition; as in twice-told, twice-born, twice-planted, twice-conquered.Definition 2024
twice
twice
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Adverb
twice (not comparable)
- Two times.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
- 1934, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Santa Claus is coming to town. / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. / Santa Claus is coming to town.
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- (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
- 1826, John Nicholson, The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume 1, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, page 78:
- Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.
- 1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, fourth edition, page 304:
- You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.
- 1952, Peter Lincoln Spencer, Building mathematical concepts in the elementary school, page 139:
- MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.
- 1995, Louise Corti, Heather Laurie, Shirley Dex, Highly Qualified Women, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, page 18:
- Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.
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Derived terms
Translations
two times
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