- meaning - Is there a difference between treble and triple . . .
According to the Cambridge Corpus of American English, Americans strongly prefer triple as an adjective, noun and verb British and Australian writers, on the other hand, seem to use both triple and treble, but with treble more frequent as a verb and triple as a noun and adjective Fowler distinguished between treble meaning that something had become three times as large in size, and triple
- Are there examples of triple entendres in English?
There are many triple entendres in HipHop, although not respected by most writers and english enthusiasts, HipHop has produce some of the most wittiest lines I've personally ever heard
- Where does the expression triple-A come from?
The term "AAA" or "triple-A" is a term mainly used nowadays in the video game industry, according to Wikipedia, for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher,
- word choice - Is triple the proper counterpart of pair when . . .
Nobody posted this as an answer before you because triple is the logical increment of tuple; triplet is the logical increment of twin In informatics, a key-value pair is called tuple or 2-tuple
- Is there another word for five times, such as triple, quadruple?
I forget what the word for 5 times is I know it is single, double, triple, quadruple but forgot what the one for 5 is
- etymology - Why is the word triple spelt with 1 p although tri is an . . .
Plenty of English words have a non-doubled consonant letter after a short vowel The only time when you can expect consonant doubling to systematically apply after a short vowel is before certain suffixes (such as -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -ist) But in a non-suffixed word like triple, there isn't an easy way to predict the spelling from the pronunciation or vice versa The spelling "tripple" was
- word choice - Double of, double than. Triple of, triple than - English . . .
Do Double triple use "than" or "of" after them? eg: the monthly-averaged discharges flowing through that river are as nearly as triple than of those flowing in the Mississippi river
- How can I form a word like quadruple for any number I want?
The usual way is just to find the Latin root and add the suffix: quintuple, sextuple, septuple, nonuple, etc For numbers beyond eight or nine, the -uple construction sounds rather strained, if not downright silly (Duodecuple? Really?) I'd recommend -fold as an alternative ("a ninety-fold increase"), or substitute another counter noun altogether: an "eighty-one piece orchestra"; "a sixteen
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