different between twice vs deuce

English

Etymology

From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twi?es, from Old English tw??es (“twice”), from tw?wa, tw??a ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German twiges, twies (“twice”), Middle High German zwies (“twies”). Compare also twi- meaning two or both.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twa?s/, [tw?a?s]
• Rhymes: -a?s

Adverb

twice (not comparable)

1. Two times.
2. (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.

Synonyms

• two times

Derived terms

• a broken clock is right twice a day
• two-time
• twice as less

Translations

See also

• once
• thrice

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?s/, /d??u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

1. (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
2. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
4. The number two.
5. (tennis) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
6. (baseball) A curveball.
7. A '32 Ford.
   • 1978, Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in Rod Action, p.26

1. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
2. (restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.
3. (Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement.

Synonyms

• (piece of excrement): See Thesaurus:defecation

Derived terms

• drop a deuce

Related terms

• (dice) ace, trey, cater, cinque, sice

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?s/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

Derived terms

• what the deuce

Translations

References

• (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• educe