Synonyms:
ternary, treble, triple, triplex
Meaning: 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"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
triple, three-base_hit, three-bagger
Meaning: a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
triple, treble
Meaning: increase threefold; "Triple your income!"
Synonyms:
triple
Meaning: hit a three-base hit
Usage examples
Triple fool that I am!
Again, twice in this poem is the triple nature of the storm adverted to. This is observable in many of the religions of America.
Now he loveth her, but she loatheth him; and when he chanced to take an oath of triple divorcement and broke it, forthright she left him.
Shall I ever forget the triple horror of that spectacle? Twenty-five or thirty human bodies, among whom were several females, lay scattered about between the counter and the galley in the last and most loathsome state of putrefaction.
Thus, then, in the production of this light a triple distinction was made between light and darkness. First, as to the cause, forasmuch as in the substance of the sun we have the cause of light, and in the opaque nature of the earth the cause of darkness.
In the corner the two strangers had apparently finished their game; one of them arose, and standing with his back to the merry company at the table, he adjusted with much deliberation his large triple caped coat. As he did so, he gave one quick glance all around him.
Their favorite object was the plunder of a certain church on one of the Spanish islands, which they proposed to assail during the midnight mass of Christmas, whereby a triple end would be achieved: first, a rich booty; secondly, the punishment of idolatry; thirdly, vengeance on the arch-enemies of their party and their faith.
This Union was not expected to be held together by coercion; the power of force as a means was denied. They sought, however, to bind it perpetually together with that which was stronger than triple bars of brass and steel--the ceaseless current of kind offices, renewing and renewed in an eternal flow, and gathering volume and velocity as it rolled.
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