noun
Meaning 1
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
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Standard Lemma guide
doublet
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
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). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
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Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
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Topics: literature, media, publishing
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noun
Meaning 4
An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: lapidary
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noun
Meaning 5
A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
Meaning 6
A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1⁄2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −1⁄2 and +1⁄2.
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Qualifier: quantum mechanics
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noun
Meaning 7
A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
A word ladder puzzle.
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noun
Meaning 10
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.
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noun
Meaning 11
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
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Examples
- to throw doublets
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noun
Meaning 12
A game somewhat like backgammon.
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Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 13
Dipole antenna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, media, radio
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noun
Meaning 14
A man’s waistcoat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 15
A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
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noun
Meaning 16
a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: jacket
History
Etymology
From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et. Equivalent to double + -et (diminutive suffix)
From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).
Across languages
Translations
63 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: чифт (čift) — pair of two similar or equal things
- Danish: dublet — pair of two similar or equal things
- Finnish: pari — pair of two similar or equal things
- Finnish: kaksikko — pair of two similar or equal things
- French: doublon — pair of two similar or equal things
- Hungarian: pár — pair of two similar or equal things
- Italian: doppione — pair of two similar or equal things
- Polish: para — pair of two similar or equal things
- Portuguese: par — pair of two similar or equal things
- Portuguese: dupla — pair of two similar or equal things
- Russian: дубле́т (dublét) — pair of two similar or equal things
- Russian: пара (para) — pair of two similar or equal things
- Spanish: pareja — pair of two similar or equal things
- Spanish: doblete — pair of two similar or equal things
- Swedish: dubblett — pair of two similar or equal things
- Armenian: կրկնակ (krknak) — pair of cognates in a language
- Bulgarian: дублет (dublet) — pair of cognates in a language
- Catalan: doblet — pair of cognates in a language
- Chinese Mandarin: 雙式詞 /双式词 (shuāngshìcí) — pair of cognates in a language
- Chinese Mandarin: 同源異形詞 /同源异形词 — pair of cognates in a language
- Dutch: doublet — pair of cognates in a language
- Dutch: tweelingwoord — pair of cognates in a language
- French: doublet — pair of cognates in a language
- German: Dublette — pair of cognates in a language
- German: Scheideform — pair of cognates in a language
- Greek: ζεύγος (zévgos) — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: azonos tőből származó/eredő szópár — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: azonos/közös eredetű/etimológiájú szópár — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: dublett — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: szóhasadás — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: párhuzamos alak- és jelentésmegoszlás — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: jelentésmegoszlás — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: jelentéselkülönülés — pair of cognates in a language
- Italian: allotropo — pair of cognates in a language
- Italian: doppietto — pair of cognates in a language
- Italian: doppione — pair of cognates in a language
- Japanese: 二重語 (nijūgo) — pair of cognates in a language
- Polish: dublet — pair of cognates in a language
- Portuguese: dobrete — pair of cognates in a language
- Russian: дубле́т (dublét) — pair of cognates in a language
- Spanish: doblete — pair of cognates in a language
- Turkish: eşil — pair of cognates in a language
- Vietnamese: điệp thức — pair of cognates in a language
- Welsh: dybled — pair of cognates in a language
- Hungarian: szövegismétlődés — literature: in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event
- Hungarian: szövegpár — literature: in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event
- Hungarian: dublé — lapidary: an imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them
- Hungarian: drágakőutánzat — lapidary: an imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them
- Hungarian: kettős lupe — an arrangement of two lenses for a microscope
- Hungarian: kapcsolt lencse — an arrangement of two lenses for a microscope
- Hungarian: azonos számértékű kocka — either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost
- Hungarian: zeke — (historical in English) a man’s waistcoat
- Bulgarian: жакет (žaket) — article of men's clothing
- Catalan: gipó — article of men's clothing
- Danish: vams — article of men's clothing
- Esperanto: kamizolo — article of men's clothing
- Finnish: dubletti — article of men's clothing
- French: pourpoint — article of men's clothing
- Galician: xibón — article of men's clothing
- Italian: farsetto — article of men's clothing
- Portuguese: gibão — article of men's clothing
- Russian: дубле́т (dublét) — article of men's clothing
- Spanish: jubón — article of men's clothing