different between doubles vs doubler

English

Pronunciation

Noun

doubles

1. plural of double

Noun

doubles

1. (sports, plural only) a game between pairs of players

2. (campanology, plural only) bell changes rung on five bells

3. A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.

Derived terms

• mixed doubles

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (daburusu)

Translations

Verb

doubles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of double

   The population doubles every ten minutes.

Anagrams

• bloused, bolused, dobules

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dubl/

Adjective

doubles

1. plural of double

Noun

doubles m

1. plural of double

Verb

doubles

1. second-person singular present indicative of doubler
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of doubler

English

Etymology

double +? -er

Noun

doubler (plural doublers)

1. One who doubles.
2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
3. (structural engineering) A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.

4. (US, dialect) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
5. (colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
6. Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
7. (calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
8. A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.

Anagrams

• Boulder, boulder

French

Etymology

From Old French dobler, from Late Latin d?pl?, from Latin d?plus. Compare Spanish and Catalan doblar, Portuguese dobrar, Italian doppiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.ble/

Verb

doubler

1. to double, duplicate

   A cet instant précis, il a décidé de doubler la mise.

2. to double-cross

   Nous avons été doublé ce coup-ci.

3. to overtake, pass

   Sur l'autoroute, nous avons eu l'occasion de doubler de nombreux véhicules.

4. to dub

   Daniel Beretta qui double Arnold Schwarzenegger en français depuis 1987 a également prêté sa voix à l'agent Sam Fisher.

5. (Belgium) to repeat a school year

   Synonym: redoubler

Conjugation

Derived terms

• doublage
• redoubler
• dédoubler

Descendants

• ? Romanian: dubla

See also

• dupliquer

Further reading

• “doubler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).