| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One exactly resembling another: duplicate, image, picture, portrait, spitting image. Slang : ringer. See SAME. 2. One of a matched pair of things: companion, counterpart, duplicate, fellow, match, mate, twin. See SAME. | | VERB: | 1. To make or become twice as great: duplicate, geminate, redouble, twin. See BIG, INCREASE. 2. To turn sharply around. Also used with back: about-face, reverse. See APPROACH. 3. To bend together or make a crease in so that one part lies over another: crease, fold, pleat, ply1, ruck2. See ORDER, SMOOTH. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Being or acting so as to conceal one's real intentions: double-dealing, double-faced, two-faced. See HONEST. 2. Composed of two parts or things: biform, binary, dual, duple, duplex, duplicate, geminate, twofold. See PART. 3. Twice as much or as large: twofold. See BIG. 4. Consisting of two identical or similar related things, parts, or elements: dual, paired, twin. See SAME.
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