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Definition: DOUBLER |
DOUBLERNoun1. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope. 2. One who, or that which, doubles. |
Date "DOUBLER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Tends machine that winds two or more strands of yarn parallel onto bobbin or tube preparatory to twisting: Places supply packages in creel and draws yarn ends through machine guides and tensions onto takeup tube. Starts machine and observes operation to detect yarn breaks, exhausting yarn supply and full packages on takeup tubes. $T3Pieces up$T1 yarn breaks, using knotter. Replaces supply packages in creel. Doffs full packages. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DOUBLER |
| Non-English Usage: "DOUBLER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (double, line, overhaul, overtake, pass, round, understudy). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Part 1: Small Scarf Patch and Doubler Patch Aircraft Wood Repair (1943) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DOUBLER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "DOUBLER" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (comparative) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DOUBLER": mule doubler. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DOUBLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 并线机. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tvindemaskine (doubling frame, mule doubler, twiner mule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | doublage (double texture proofing, doubling), renfort, clarificateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | doppler (doppler), Verstärkung (amplification, boost, boosting, concentration, deepening, fortification, gain, increase, intensification, re enforcement, recruitment, reinforcement, reinforcements, strengthener, strengthening), Nachdestillationsbottich, Aufdoppelung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכפיל (multiplier), כופל (multiplier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rettificatore (rectifier, rectifying section). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oublerday retorcedor (doubling frame, mule doubler, twiner mule). (various references) удвоитель. (various references) dubler. (various references) máquina mulejenny para torcer (doubling frame, mule doubler, twiner mule). (various references) máy nhân đôi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DOUBLER": doublers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boulder. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-l-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: bolder, bordel, burled, double, louder, loured, rouble. | |
-2 letters: blued, bluer, bored, boule, lobed, lubed, lured, older, orbed, redub, robed, roble, ruble, ruled, uredo. | |
-3 letters: bedu, bled, blue, blur, bode, bold, bole, bore, bred, burd, burl, doer, dole, dore, dour, drub, duel, dure, duro, euro, leud, lobe, lode, lord, lore, loud, lour, lube, lude. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: boulders, bouldery, doublers, doublure, laboured, redouble, troubled. | |
+2 letters: bouldered, boulevard, bulldozer, burladero, doublures, overbuild, pureblood, redoubled, redoubles. | |
+3 letters: belaboured, beliquored, boulevards, bulldogger, bulldozers, burladeros, cloudberry, furbelowed, nondurable, obdurately, outbrawled, overbuilds, producible, purebloods, redoubling, roundtable, untroubled. | |
+4 letters: beglamoured, belowground, bloodsucker, boatbuilder, bodybuilder, bulldoggers, nondurables, redoubtable, redoubtably, roundtables, thunderbolt, tuberculoid. | |
+5 letters: battleground, bloodsuckers, boatbuilders, bodybuilders, boulevardier, cloudberries, doubleheader, flutterboard, overbuilding, reproducible, reproducibly, shuffleboard, subeditorial, subthreshold, thunderbolts, unaffordable, unpardonable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 55 42 4C 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- ..- -... .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001111 01010101 01000010 01001100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O U B L E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0055 0042 004C 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38495536463952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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