"twice" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

IPA: /twaɪs/, [tw̥aɪs] Audio: en-us-twice.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪs Etymology: 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”). Compare also twi- meaning two or both. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|twies}} Middle English twies, {{inh|en|ang|twīġes||twice}} Old English twīġes (“twice”), {{gloss|"twice"; whence Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">twie</i> (“twice”)}} ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)), {{cog|stq|twäie||twice}} Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), {{cog|gml|twiges}} Middle Low German twiges, {{cog|gmh|zwies||twice}} Middle High German zwies (“twice”) Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} twice (not comparable)
  1. Two times. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Time, Two Translations (two times): δίς (dís) (Ancient Greek), δυάκις (duákis) (Ancient Greek), مَرَّتَيْن (marratayn) (Arabic), مرتين (marratēn) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), مرتين (marrtēn) [South-Levantine-Arabic] (Arabic), երկու անգամ (erku angam) (Armenian), երկիցս (erkicʻs) (Armenian), ܬܲܪܬܹܝܢ ܓܵܗܹ̈ܐ (tartēn gāhē) (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), div wech (Breton), два пъти (dva pǎti) (Bulgarian), дваж (dvaž) (Bulgarian), dos cops (Catalan), dues vegades (Catalan), makaduha (Cebuano), kaduha (Cebuano), دووجار (dûcar) (Central Kurdish), hitokla' (Chickasaw), 兩次 /两次 (liǎng cì) (Chinese Mandarin), 两倍 (liǎng bèi) (Chinese Mandarin), ōppa (Classical Nahuatl), diwweyth (Cornish), dvakrát (Czech), to gange (Danish), twee keer (Dutch), tweemaal (Dutch), dufoje (Esperanto), kaks korda (Estonian), pis (pis) (Faliscan), kaksi kertaa (Finnish), kahdesti (Finnish), deux fois (French), dúas veces [feminine, plural] (Galician), ორჯერ (orǯer) (Georgian), zweimal (German), doppelt (German), δις (dis) (Greek), פעמיים \ פַּעֲמַיִם (pa'amáyim) (Hebrew), שְׁתֵּי פְּעָמִים (sh'téi p'amím) (Hebrew), दोगुना (dogunā) (Hindi), दुगना (dugnā) (Hindi), दोहरा (dohrā) (Hindi), दुकना (duknā) (Hindi), kétszer (Hungarian), duplán (Hungarian), dupla (Hungarian), tvisvar (Icelandic), tvívegis (Icelandic), faoi dhó (Irish), dhá uair (Irish), due volte (Italian), 二度 (nido) (alt: にど) (Japanese), 二回 (nikai) (note: for frequency) (alt: にかい) (Japanese), 二倍 (nibai) (note: for scale ratio) (alt: にばい) (Japanese), 두번 (dubeon) (Korean), bis (Latin), divreiz (Latvian), divas reizes [feminine, plural] (Latvian), du kartus (Lithuanian), dukart (Lithuanian), zweemol (Luxembourgish), dua kali (Malay), ഇരട്ടി (iraṭṭi) (Malayalam), രണ്ടുതവണ (raṇṭutavaṇa) (Malayalam), ᠵᡠᠸᡝᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ (juwenggeri) (Manchu), taurua (Maori), twie (Middle English), twies (Middle English), to ganger (Norwegian Bokmål), tweowa (Old English), دوبار (dobâr) (Persian), tweemol (Plautdietsch), dwukrotnie (Polish), duas vezes (Portuguese), duplamente (Portuguese), два́жды (dváždy) (Russian), два ра́за (dva ráza) (Russian), द्विस् (dvis) (Sanskrit), dà uair (Scottish Gaelic), два́пут [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), dváput [Latin] (Serbo-Croatian), dvakrát (Slovak), dvakrat (Slovene), dos veces (Spanish), doblemente (Spanish), två gånger (Swedish), makalawa (Tagalog), двічі (dviči) (Ukrainian), dwywaith (Welsh), kabili (Zulu)
    Sense id: en-twice-en-adv-1nKGRiVs Disambiguation of Time: 96 4 Disambiguation of Two: 72 28 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Assyrian Neo-Aramaic translations, Terms with Breton translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Cebuano translations, Terms with Central Kurdish translations, Terms with Chickasaw translations, Terms with Classical Nahuatl translations, Terms with Cornish translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Faliscan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Malayalam translations, Terms with Manchu translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Middle English translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Plautdietsch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Sanskrit translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with South Levantine Arabic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Welsh translations, Terms with Zulu translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 57 43 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 57 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Assyrian Neo-Aramaic translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Breton translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 57 43 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  2. (usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree. Tags: not-comparable, usually
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: double, doubly, two times, bis, twice, twicet [US, dialectal], twofold Hypernyms: often, sometimes Related terms: once, thrice, two-time, frequency

Alternative forms

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          "name": "Terms with Persian translations",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
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          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
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          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
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          "name": "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with South Levantine Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
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          "name": "Terms with Zulu translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "en:Time",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Two",
          "orig": "en:Two",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "text": "You should brush your teeth twice a day.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1824, Lord Byron, “Canto the Thirteenth”, in Don Juan:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie (lyrics and music), “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”:",
          "text": "Santa Claus is coming to town / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice, / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice / Santa Claus is coming to town",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Two times."
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        [
          "Two",
          "two"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
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        "not-comparable"
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          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "marratayn",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "مَرَّتَيْن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "marratēn",
          "sense": "two times",
          "tags": [
            "Egyptian-Arabic"
          ],
          "word": "مرتين"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ajp",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "marrtēn",
          "sense": "two times",
          "tags": [
            "South-Levantine-Arabic"
          ],
          "word": "مرتين"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "erku angam",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "երկու անգամ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "erkicʻs",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "երկիցս"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "aii",
          "lang": "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
          "roman": "tartēn gāhē",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "ܬܲܪܬܹܝܢ ܓܵܗܹ̈ܐ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "div wech"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "dva pǎti",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "два пъти"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "dvaž",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "дваж"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dos cops"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dues vegades"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "makaduha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "kaduha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "cic",
          "lang": "Chickasaw",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "hitokla'"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "liǎng cì",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "兩次 /两次"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "liǎng bèi",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "两倍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "nci",
          "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "ōppa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "diwweyth"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dvakrát"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "to gange"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "twee keer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "tweemaal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dufoje"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "kaks korda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "xfa",
          "lang": "Faliscan",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "pis (pis)"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "kaksi kertaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "kahdesti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "deux fois"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "two times",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "dúas veces"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "orǯer",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "ორჯერ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "zweimal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "doppelt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "dis",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "δις"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "dís",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "δίς"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "duákis",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "δυάκις"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "pa'amáyim",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "פעמיים \\ פַּעֲמַיִם"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "sh'téi p'amím",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "שְׁתֵּי פְּעָמִים"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "dogunā",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "दोगुना"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "dugnā",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "दुगना"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "dohrā",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "दोहरा"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "duknā",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "दुकना"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "kétszer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "duplán"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dupla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "tvisvar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "tvívegis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "faoi dhó"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dhá uair"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "due volte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "alt": "にど",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nido",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "二度"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "alt": "にかい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "note": "for frequency",
          "roman": "nikai",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "二回"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "alt": "にばい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "note": "for scale ratio",
          "roman": "nibai",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "二倍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "dubeon",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "두번"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "dûcar",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "دووجار"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "bis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "divreiz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "divas reizes"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "du kartus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dukart"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "zweemol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dua kali"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "iraṭṭi",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "ഇരട്ടി"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "raṇṭutavaṇa",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "രണ്ടുതവണ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "mnc",
          "lang": "Manchu",
          "roman": "juwenggeri",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "ᠵᡠᠸᡝᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "taurua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "twie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "twies"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "to ganger"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "tweowa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "dobâr",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "دوبار"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "tweemol"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dwukrotnie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "duas vezes"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "duplamente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dváždy",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "два́жды"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dva ráza",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "два ра́за"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "dvis",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "द्विस्"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dà uair"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "два́пут"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "two times",
          "tags": [
            "Latin"
          ],
          "word": "dváput"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dvakrát"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dvakrat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dos veces"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "doblemente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "två gånger"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "makalawa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "dviči",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "двічі"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "dwywaith"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "zu",
          "lang": "Zulu",
          "sense": "two times",
          "word": "kabili"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "54 46",
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          "_dis": "54 46",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, 4th edition, page 304:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1995, Louise Corti, Heather Laurie, Shirley Dex, Highly Qualified Women, Great Britain. Dept. of Employment, page 18:",
          "text": "Both men and women with higher qualifications were twice as less likely to be unemployed than their less qualified counterparts.",
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    {
      "word": "a broken clock is right twice a day"
    },
    {
      "word": "any day of the week and twice on Sunday"
    },
    {
      "word": "any day of the week and twice on Sundays"
    },
    {
      "word": "a stopped clock is right twice a day"
    },
    {
      "word": "at twice"
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    {
      "word": "even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
    },
    {
      "word": "every day of the week and twice on Sunday"
    },
    {
      "word": "every day of the week and twice on Sundays"
    },
    {
      "word": "first cousin twice removed"
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    {
      "word": "hit the ball twice"
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    {
      "word": "I don't boil my cabbage twice"
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    {
      "word": "I don't chew my cabbage twice"
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    {
      "word": "lightning does not strike twice in the same place"
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    {
      "word": "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place"
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    {
      "word": "lightning never strikes the same place twice"
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    {
      "word": "lightning never strikes twice"
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    {
      "word": "lightning never strikes twice in the same place"
    },
    {
      "word": "measure twice and cut once"
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    {
      "word": "money won is twice as sweet as money earned"
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    {
      "word": "once a man, twice a boy"
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    {
      "word": "once a man, twice a child"
    },
    {
      "word": "once a woman, twice a child"
    },
    {
      "word": "once or twice"
    },
    {
      "word": "opportunity seldom knocks twice"
    },
    {
      "word": "strike twice"
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    {
      "word": "the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long"
    },
    {
      "word": "think twice"
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    {
      "word": "twice as less"
    },
    {
      "word": "twice-baked bread"
    },
    {
      "word": "twice-exceptional"
    },
    {
      "word": "twice-exceptionality"
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    {
      "word": "twice-laid"
    },
    {
      "word": "twice removed"
    },
    {
      "word": "twice-stabbed stink bug"
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    {
      "word": "twice-told"
    },
    {
      "word": "twice-weekly"
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    {
      "word": "twice-yearly"
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      "word": "you can't step in the same river twice"
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          "ref": "1824, Lord Byron, “Canto the Thirteenth”, in Don Juan:",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.",
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          "ref": "1934, J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie (lyrics and music), “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”:",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1896, Livingston Stone, Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, 4th edition, page 304:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1952, Peter Lincoln Spencer, Building mathematical concepts in the elementary school, page 139:",
          "text": "MARY: As you go from left to right, each example has twice as many twos; from right to left, twice as few.",
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      "code": "ar",
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      "sense": "two times",
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      "sense": "two times",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "duplán"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "two times",
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      "code": "is",
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      "code": "is",
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      "word": "tvívegis"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "two times",
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "two times",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "two times",
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      "word": "二回"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にばい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "note": "for scale ratio",
      "roman": "nibai",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "二倍"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "dubeon",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "두번"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "dûcar",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "دووجار"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "bis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "divreiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "two times",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "divas reizes"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "du kartus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dukart"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "zweemol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dua kali"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "iraṭṭi",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "ഇരട്ടി"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "raṇṭutavaṇa",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "രണ്ടുതവണ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "juwenggeri",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "ᠵᡠᠸᡝᠩᡤᡝᡵᡳ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "taurua"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "twie"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "twies"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "to ganger"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "tweowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "dobâr",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "دوبار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "tweemol"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dwukrotnie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "duas vezes"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "duplamente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dváždy",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "два́жды"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dva ráza",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "два ра́за"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "dvis",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "द्विस्"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dà uair"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "two times",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "два́пут"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "two times",
      "tags": [
        "Latin"
      ],
      "word": "dváput"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dvakrát"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dvakrat"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dos veces"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "doblemente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "två gånger"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "makalawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dviči",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "двічі"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "dwywaith"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "two times",
      "word": "kabili"
    }
  ],
  "word": "twice"
}

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