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quadruple /ˈkwɒdrʊp(ə)l / /kwɒˈdruːp(ə)l /adjective [attributive]1Consisting of four parts or elements: a quadruple murder...- Four years later he suffered more attacks and needed a quadruple heart bypass that left him with kidney failure.
- He also has overcome bladder cancer and a quadruple bypass on his heart.
- I have also worked on patients during three LVAD implant operations and one quadruple coronary by-pass operation.
1.1Consisting of four times as much or as many as usual: a quadruple vodka...- For linguistics nerds this is like a quadruple vodka.
- The 16-stone defendant had drunk several pints of beer, alcopops and a quadruple vodka.
- Hornewer is demanding over $2 million for a rematch, about quadruple what Byrd earned in April.
1.2(Of time in music) having four beats in a bar.Triple chants have been composed and a few quadruple chants also exist, but in use these become tiresome....- The second piece is a Gavotta, a moderate dance in quadruple meter.
- All of sudden he does this incredible run where he goes up two octaves and back down in quadruple time.
verbIncrease or be increased fourfold: [no object]: oil prices quadrupled in the 1970s...- These socks are now also available in some fancy gift shops with their price tripled or quadrupled.
- Within five years, the nations there had taken ownership of their own oil - and prices had quadrupled.
- Agri-food exports have quadrupled since my first appointment.
nounA quadruple number or amount.Now that marriage no longer means much, why not let couples or triples or quadruples of whatever variety get married?...- That, and his extraordinary capacity for self-sacrificing friendship, loyalty and sweet-natured nannying, have been his quadruple of acclaimed lifetime's high-lights.
- It was impossible, Alex Ferguson said during the week, for Manchester United to win the quadruple.
Derivativesquadruply adverb ...- He must prove his case doubly, triply, quadruply, and then he must start all over and prove it again.
- And if they've been absent in the past, then they are doubly, nay triply, nay quadruply absent in today's MLB chief executive.
- Where sexuality and reproduction were concerned, slave women were quadruply burdened, by both black and white patriarchy and by both gender and racial oppression.
OriginLate Middle English (as a verb): via French from Latin quadruplus, from quadru- 'four' + -plus as in duplus (see duple). |