twice
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /twaɪs/, [tw̥aɪs]
twice (not comparable)
- Two times.
- 1934, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- Santa Claus is coming to town. / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. / Santa Claus is coming to town.
- 1934, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
- (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.
- French: deux fois
- German: zweimal, doppelt
- Italian: due volte
- Portuguese: duas vezes, duplamente
- Russian: два́жды
- Spanish: dos veces, doblemente
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