Twofold
['tuːfəʊld] or ['tufold]
Definition
(adv.) by a factor of two; 'the price increased twofold last year'.
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Definition
(a.) Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.
(adv.) In a double degree; doubly.
Checker: Wyatt
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Double.
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Examples
- The base of the triangle is grooved for the twofold purpose of making the rubber adhere better to the rail, and to increase resiliency. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The effect of this act of jaculation is twofold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Secondly, That the duties which the master was expected to perform would be of a twofold kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The two together supply our guardians with their twofold nature. Plato. The Republic.
- The change was twofold. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The bad effects are twofold. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Miss Keeldar looked happy in conversing with him, and her joy seemed twofold--a joy of the past and present, of memory and of hope. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This problem had a twofold aspect, although each side was inseparably bound up in the other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The significance of this doctrine for the theory of education is twofold. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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