A large sofa usually convertible into a bed a small decorative writing desk a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island
A dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Iowa a state in midwestern United States a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri
Having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room" used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical" twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" two together; "some people sleep better double" downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain" raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18" someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary" bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" hit a two-base hit increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years"
Currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in" directed or bound inward; "took the in bus"; "the in basket" holding office; "the in party" to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door" a state in midwestern United States a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
A former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction