twice
advEtymology
From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("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 (“twice”). Equivalent to twi- (“(in) two; both”) + -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- and dis-, borrowed from Indo-European cognates.
Definitions
Two times.
- You should brush your teeth twice a day.
- I've done with my tirade. The world was gone; / The twice two thousand, for whom earth was made, / Were vanish'd to be what they call alone
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.
- MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.
The neighborhood
- synonymdouble
- synonymdoubly
- synonymtwo times
- synonymbis
- synonymtwice
- synonymtwicet
- synonymtwofold
- antonymonce
- antonymthrice
- neighboronce
- neighborthrice
- neighbortwo-time
- neighborfrequency
- neighboroften
- neighborsometimes
Derived
a broken clock is right twice a day, any day of the week and twice on Sunday, any day of the week and twice on Sundays, a stopped clock is right twice a day, at twice, buy the same horse twice, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, every day of the week and twice on Sunday, every day of the week and twice on Sundays, first cousin twice removed, hit the ball twice, I don't boil my cabbage twice, I don't chew my cabbage twice, lightning does not strike twice in the same place, lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place, lightning never strikes the same place twice, lightning never strikes twice, lightning never strikes twice in the same place, measure twice and cut once, money won is twice as sweet as money earned, once a man, twice a boy, once a man, twice a child, once a woman, twice a child, once or twice, opportunity seldom knocks twice, strike twice, the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, think twice, twice as less, twice-baked bread, twice-borrowed, twice-exceptional, twice-exceptionality, twice-laid, twice removed, twice-stabbed stink bug, twice-told, twice twice, twice-weekly, twice-yearly · +2 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at twice. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at twice. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at twice
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