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triple English

Meaning triple meaning

What does triple mean?
Definitions in simple English

triple Adjective

— If something is triple, it is 200% bigger than something else. The new computer was triple the cost of the old one. We usually see about 30 people a day, but yesterday it was triple.

triple Verb

— If you triple something, you multiply it by three. Julia tripled her income by working hard and becoming the manager. — If something triples, it grows by 200%. Julia's income tripled when she became the manager.

triple

— verb increase threefold Triple your income! — noun a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base — adjective (= ternary, treble, triplex) having three units or components or elements a ternary operation a treble row of red beads overcrowding made triple sessions necessary triple time has three beats per measure triplex windows — verb hit a three-base hit — noun a quantity that is three times as great as another — adjective (= treble, threefold) three times as great or many a claim for treble (or triple) damages a threefold increase — noun (= trio) a set of three similar things considered as a unit

Synonyms triple synonyms

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triple English » English

treble threefold triplex ternary three-fold three triplicate triplet trio trine triad three-ply three-base hit tri three-bagger triplicity tern triune triplication tripartite trinity trinal tri- trebling thrice thribble threesome three-way three-layer three times three time three three time as much third of three kinds line-drive triple line triple divided into three parts

Topics triple topics

What do people use triple to talk about?
States Quantity Number

Multiples
States Quantity Number

Numbered group
Grammar Very Degree

To a larger degree
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports

Conjugation triple conjugation

How do you conjugate triple?

triple · verb

Examples triple examples

How do I use triple in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom saw a triple rainbow.
He is sure to set a new record in the triple jump.
Emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - which are potent greehouse gases - are expected to double by 2020 and nearly triple by 2030 in the U.S.
Tom's house has triple glazed windows.

Movie subtitles

I have a triple wick.
Let the triple battle begin, King Gunther!
New York will see its first triple funeral.
Darling, here's a review of Triple Murder.
I said triple the usual rate, and money in advance.
Make it a triple brandy.
Therefore for meritorious conduct, extraordinary valor conspicuous bravery against wicked witches I award you the Triple Cross.
So you paid a triple fare to Captain Toombs for passage on his leaky old freighter to get there.
Well, I'll triple the price.
No, we have unit heat, and each heating pipe has a triple-wall jacket and all the outside walls are double insulated.
That's the triple-wall insulation.
I made the martinis triple-strength, and she feels wonderful.
You can triple up with me and Hansan.
You, La Franchise, I name you father-in-law with triple pay.
Barkeep, two triple Scotches.
Don't you think I'd take a pop at a guy that slipped me the triple-cross?
You paid Captain Toombs triple fare for passage on a leaky old freighter?
Triple with this one.
If you do a double, I'll do a triple.
A triple threat.
Cosette, triple vodka, please.
In the future, use triple space.
The only unassisted triple play in World Series history.
Rome must believe that our strength is double. than triple which is in reality.
I have a triple wick. I can get it.
Single lives, twin beds and triple bromides in the morning.
That's the new triple-strength kind.
A medal. Therefore for meritorious conduct, extraordinary valor conspicuous bravery against wicked witches I award you the Triple Cross.
Everybody keeps telling me to wait one moment, please, and that's what I'm triple doing.
If you ever got up and read a morning paper, you might discover little news events, little items of general interest, that might stop you getting immersed in such a gold-plated, triple-decked, star-spangled lie as you have just told me.
I'll have the Triple Crown or none at all!
Hey, a triple.
Our double beds are really triple.

News and current affairs

The salaries of Italy's military chiefs of staff and chief of police are almost triple those of their American counterparts.
Better a 50-basis-point increase now - thereby allowing the economic recovery to continue by keeping inflation in check - than triple or quadruple that figure down the road.
The just-collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so-called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple-A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.
The McKinsey Global Institute recently estimated that world financial assets today are more than three times world GDP - triple the ratio in 1980 (and up from only two-thirds of world GDP after World War II).
The EIB is worried that such a scheme could come at the cost of its triple-A rating.
And, because oil prices have declined by more than triple the tax, consumers would continue to pay much less than they did just a few months ago.
A Bayrou victory, which is unlikely but not impossible, would constitute a triple revolution.
In fact, while concerns over the eurozone's survival tend to focus on its indebted members, Europe's monetary union is at risk of losing one of the few members that still enjoys a triple-A credit rating: Finland.
But if central banks don't find a clear exit strategy from policies that double or triple the monetary base, eventually either goods-price inflation or another dangerous asset and credit bubble (or both) will ensue.
Iraq is producing oil at levels below what it produced under Saddam Hussein, and has the potential to double or even triple output.
If current trends persist, the volume of such goods could triple by 2025.
Indeed, the cost of a single month of western military spending in Iraq or Afghanistan would be enough to triple total aid for education in the Middle East.
The same money could triple the global development aid budget.
Even when part of alliances--the Triple Alliance with Bismarck's Germany and the Habsburg Empire, or the Entente with France before the First World War--Russia was kept at a distance.
Africa has been described as a continent having a triple heritage, and the African Muslim, too, has a split personality.
In some cases, with appropriate government action, they could double or even triple food production in just a few years.
One possibility is to triple mobile broadband penetration in developing countries.
The erosion of support for the government is due to its inefficiency: inflation is triple official forecasts, and basic foodstuffs and fuel are scarce and their supply irregular.
Removing this constraint might endanger the Bank's triple A rating, but will make it more effective.
Urban per capita income is more than triple the average in rural areas.
It is enough to remember that in 2008 there were only 12 public companies in the world with AAA credit ratings, but more than 60,000 - mostly American - triple-A structured financial products.
Does anyone really believe the French would have voted No had France's economic growth rates been double or triple their current levels?
Worse yet, even this triple disaster often did not fit the definition of the seismic event defined by the bond indentures.
Though this may not have been a huge problem in the 1990s, when EU countries received, in all, only 300,000 asylum applications annually, it cannot work in a year when the total is expected to be triple that number.
Already it is oversubscribed and trading in the gray market at a triple the likely issue price.
Decentralized management has helped German exporters triple their share of the global market for top-quality goods compared to those firms that did not reorganize.
And that says a lot about the nature of the triple threat that the US and its allies now face.

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