doubler
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Etymology 1
Noun
doubler (plural doublers)
- One who doubles.
- An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
- (structural engineering) A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.
- The mechanics fastened a doubler over the hole where the cracked section of the plane's skin had been cut out.
- The airworthiness directive called for riveting a reinforcing doubler to the wing midspar web to keep the spar from buckling under flight loads.
- Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
- (calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
- (metalworking) A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A diaper insert.
- Synonym: diaper doubler
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From double (adjective) + -er.
Noun
doubler (plural doublers)
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Etymology
Inherited from Old French dobler, from Late Latin dūplāre, from Latin dūplus. Compare Spanish and Catalan doblar, Portuguese dobrar, Italian doppiare.
Pronunciation
Verb
doubler
- to double, duplicate
- A cet instant précis, il a décidé de doubler la mise.
- At that precise instant, he decided to double the bet.
- to double-cross
- Nous avons été doublé ce coup-ci.
- We've been double-crossed this time.
- to overtake, pass
- Sur l’autoroute, nous avons eu l’occasion de doubler de nombreux véhicules.
- On the motorway, we had the opportunity to overtake many vehicles. (UK)
On the freeway, we had the opportunity to pass many vehicles. (US)
- On the motorway, we had the opportunity to overtake many vehicles. (UK)
- (sound engineering) to dub
- Daniel Beretta qui double Arnold Schwarzenegger en français depuis 1987 a également prêté sa voix à l’agent Sam Fisher.
- Daniel Beretta, who has dubbed Arnold Schwarzenegger in the French versions of his films since 1987, has also lent his voice to the agent Sam Fisher.
- (Belgium) to repeat a school year
- Synonym: redoubler
- to line (a coat)
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | doubler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | doublant /du.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | doublé /du.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | double /dubl/ |
doubles /dubl/ |
double /dubl/ |
doublons /du.blɔ̃/ |
doublez /du.ble/ |
doublent /dubl/ |
| imperfect | doublais /du.blɛ/ |
doublais /du.blɛ/ |
doublait /du.blɛ/ |
doublions /du.bli.jɔ̃/ |
doubliez /du.bli.je/ |
doublaient /du.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | doublai /du.ble/ |
doublas /du.bla/ |
doubla /du.bla/ |
doublâmes /du.blam/ |
doublâtes /du.blat/ |
doublèrent /du.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | doublerai /du.blə.ʁe/ |
doubleras /du.blə.ʁa/ |
doublera /du.blə.ʁa/ |
doublerons /du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
doublerez /du.blə.ʁe/ |
doubleront /du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | doublerais /du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
doublerais /du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
doublerait /du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
doublerions /du.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
doubleriez /du.blə.ʁje/ |
doubleraient /du.blə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | double /dubl/ |
doubles /dubl/ |
double /dubl/ |
doublions /du.bli.jɔ̃/ |
doubliez /du.bli.je/ |
doublent /dubl/ |
| imperfect2 | doublasse /du.blas/ |
doublasses /du.blas/ |
doublât /du.bla/ |
doublassions /du.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
doublassiez /du.bla.sje/ |
doublassent /du.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | double /dubl/ |
— | doublons /du.blɔ̃/ |
doublez /du.ble/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Conjugation of doubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “doubler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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