different between doublet vs doubler

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?bl?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.

Noun

doublet (plural doublets)

1. A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
3. (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
4. (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
5. (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
6. (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
7. (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, ?½ and +½.
8. (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
9. (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
10. A word ladder puzzle.
11. An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
12. Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.

13. (uncountable) A game somewhat like backgammon.

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14. (radio) Dipole antenna.

Synonyms

• (pair of two similar things): duet, dyad; see also Thesaurus:duo

Translations

See also

• homolog
• pair
• twin
• twinling

Etymology 2

From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic ???? (“to en-wrap”).

Noun

doublet (plural doublets)

1. A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
   • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 2, scene 1, line 75

     Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […]

Translations

Further reading

• doublet in Hensleigh Wedgwood, On False Etymologies, Transactions of the Philological Society,1855
• doublet at OneLook Dictionary Search
• doublet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• bled out, boulted, outbled

French

Etymology

double +? -et

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.bl?/

Noun

doublet m (plural doublets)

1. (lexicography) doublet

Further reading

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

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).