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From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et. Equivalent to double + -et (diminutive suffix)
doublet (plural doublets)
- A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
- (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
- (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
- (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
- (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
- A word ladder puzzle.
- An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
- 1855, Hermann Schacht, Frederick Currey, The Microscope:
The doublet generally used is that invented by Dr. Wollaston, and consists of two plano-convex lenses placed with their convex sides towards the eye […]
- Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
to throw doublets - (uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
- (radio) Dipole antenna.
- (historical) A man’s waistcoat.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], lines 726-27:
I must comfort the weaker vessel, as
doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat […]1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, lines 316-19, 327-30:
Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent, as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,
Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd:
[…]
These sparks with awkward vanity display
What the fine gentleman wore yesterday;
And but so mimic ancient wits at best,
As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest.(pair of two similar things): duet, dyad; see also Thesaurus:duo
pair of cognates in a language
- Armenian: կրկնակ (hy) (krknak)
- Bulgarian: дублет m (dublet)
- Catalan: doblet (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 雙式詞 / 双式词 (zh) (shuāngshìcí), 同源異形詞 / 同源异形词 - Dutch: doublet (nl) n, tweelingwoord (nl) n
- French: doublet (fr) m
- German: Dublette (de) f, Scheideform f
- Hungarian: azonos tőből származó/eredő szópár, azonos/közös eredetű/etimológiájú szópár, dublett (hu), (the process that creates them, which is more commonly used) szóhasadás (hu), párhuzamos alak- és jelentésmegoszlás, (with currently related meanings) jelentésmegoszlás, (with currently unrelated meanings) jelentéselkülönülés
- Italian: allotropo (it) m, doppietto (it) m, doppione (it) m
- Japanese: 二重語 (nijūgo)
- Polish: dublet (pl) m
- Portuguese: dobrete m
- Russian: дубле́т (ru) m (dublét)
- Spanish: doblete (es) m
- Turkish: eşil (tr)
- Vietnamese: điệp thức
- Welsh: dybled m
literature: in textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event
lapidary: an imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them
an arrangement of two lenses for a microscope
either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost
(historical in English) a man’s waistcoat
A doublet (jacket)
From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).
doublet (plural doublets)
- A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 75:
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced […] - 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 75:
article of men's clothing
Danish: vams c
Esperanto: kamizolo
Finnish: dubletti
doublet in Hensleigh Wedgwood, On False Etymologies, Transactions of the Philological Society,1855
“doublet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “doublet”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
doublet m (plural doublets)
- (lexicography) doublet
- doublet (die with the same rolled value as another)
- “doublet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Borrowed from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et.
doublet (plural doublets)
- English: doublet
- “dǒublet, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.