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Twice

//twaɪs// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Two times. not-comparable

    "You should brush your teeth twice a day."

  2. 2
    Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree. not-comparable, usually

    "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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    two times wordnet
  2. 2
    to double the degree wordnet

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”). Equivalent to twi- (“(in) two; both”) + -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- and dis-, borrowed from Indo-European cognates.

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