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Meaning of இரட்டை in English

  • Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
  • Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
  • Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
  • Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.
  • Twice; doubly.
  • To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
  • To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.
  • To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
  • To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
  • To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
  • To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
  • To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
  • To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
  • To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
  • Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
  • Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
  • That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
  • A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
  • Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.
  • A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
  • Double beer; strong beer.
  • A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
  • A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
  • An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
  • Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.
  • An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.
  • Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.
  • Double.
  • Double; twofold.
  • Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
  • Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
  • Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
  • Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
  • One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
  • A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
  • A person or thing that closely resembles another.
  • A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.
  • To bring forth twins.
  • To be born at the same birth.
  • To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.
  • To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.
  • To depart from a place or thing.
  • Born at the same birth.
  • A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.
  • of Twin
  • Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
  • One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.
  • The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.
  • A domestic animal two winters old.

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