Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of four parts or members.
- adjective Four times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
- adjective Music Having four beats to the measure.
- noun A fourfold amount or number.
- transitive & intransitive verb To multiply or be multiplied by four.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of four parts; completed in four separate or successive operations.
- To make four times as much or as many; multiply by four; repeat four times; make, do, or cause to happen four times over.
- To become four times as much or as many; repeat itself four times.
- Fourfold; four times told.
- noun A number, sum, etc., four times as great as that taken as the standard: as, to receive the quadruple of a given sum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount.
- adjective Fourfold
- adjective (Mus.) that in which each measure is divided into four equal parts.
- transitive verb To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
- intransitive verb To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being
four times as long, as big or as many of something. - verb To multiply something by four times.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb increase fourfold
- adjective having four units or components
- noun a quantity that is four times as great as another
- noun a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- adjective four times as great or many
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She loves to enjoy what she calls a quadruple draught.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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Citizen Holdings gained 0.2% on a Nikkei report that the watch maker's April-September group operating profit was expected to quadruple from a year earlier to around seven billion yen ($84.3 million).
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Matt Hughes, Wyatt Allen, J. Sloan DuRoss and Sam Stitt rowed to bronze in quadruple sculls, which had no heats or semifinals.
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"Yields for plants fertilized with urine quadrupled and matched those of mineral-fertilized plants. The urine-fertilized tomatoes also contained more protein and were safe for human consumption."
- Wagdy Sawahel, Tomatoes thrive on urine diet, enn.com, 10 Sep 2009.
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