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	Encyclopedia: Double entendre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A double entendre or innuendo is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways.
		Double entendres are also used in a particular episode of the popular animation show King of the Hill.
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Double-entendre (2038 words)

	double entendres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Double entendre is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways.
		The first, literal meaning is an innocent one, while the second meaning is usually indecently sexual.
		For example, consider the sentence "If a woman asks a man for an example of double entendre, he should always try to give it to her." This double meaning has the innocent meaning to give her the example, and the second sexual meaning intending for the man to try and have sex with her.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Double_entendres.html (232 words)

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		There is no definition of double jeopardy in the U. Before 1969, a criminal defendant tried in a state court had only whatever double jeopardy protection his state chose to give him.
		Double jeopardy is formally defined as, “Being tried twice for the same offense; prohibited by the 5th Amendmentto the U. The Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution...
		im sure there are double meanings which could be taken as symbolism of character when he first describes people in his family or those he meet...
	www.learnessays.com /free_search/Theres_a_Double_Meaning_in_That/1.html (1018 words)

	double - meaning and definition of the word. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You can double click on any word to find it's meaning when you see the help cursor.
		[a.] To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
		[n.] A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
	dictionary.blintz.com /dictionary/double (476 words)

	Double couverture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beneath its apparent dichotomy the narrative is crafted by the auto-division of the "subject," in the double sense of discursive subject and object of discourse (subject of enunciation and enunciated subject).
		The Winckler child is the fictional double of Perec as narrator but, in the second part, the real subject is more and more a geographic place, an island, a system, that of W. It is this free synonymical circulation, this evidence or natural passage between these three instances, this "identity" that Perec calls into question.
		This explains the W graph or the double X. Made up of their intersection not only does this book not have a center, but even if there were an autobiographical discourse no "subject" could consitute its center.
	www.cas.unt.edu /~sirvent/autobigraphysites.html (5842 words)

	DOUBLE MEANING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Noun: equivocalness; Adjective: double meaning; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre, pun, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque, anagram; conundrum; (riddle); play on words, word play; (wit); homonym, homonymy; amphiboly, amphibology; ambilogy, ambiloquy.
		Vagueness; Adjective: haze, fog; obscurity; (darkness); ambiguity; (double meaning); contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.
		dvosmislenost (ambiguity, double entendre, equivoke, equivoque), dvosmislen (ambiguous, double edged, double-barrelled, equivocal, evasive, indeterminate).
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/DOUBLE+MEANING (346 words)

	DOUBLE Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org
		[adverb] to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright"
		[adjective] consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure"
		[adjective] having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
	www.elook.org /dictionary/double.html (382 words)

	captions.frames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hence the strategy of using the protocol of dictionary definitions to ensure that we read the caption as having the double meaning.
		In this case, the first meaning system is that evoked by reference to the scene of a horseback ride along the California beach at sunset with the love of your life, or some such thing.
		The second meaning system is that associated with Parliament brand pack of cigarettes.
	www.lclark.edu /~soan370/captions.frames.html (191 words)

	Double entendre - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For example, consider the sentence "If a woman asks a man for a double entendre, he should always try to give her one." This double meaning has the innocent meaning to give her the example, and the second sexual meaning intending for the man to try to have sex with her.
		Other classic double entendres include the title of Don McLean's song If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me? and Mrs.
		Similarly, the cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead frequently note double entrendres of the most trivial kind with such comments as, "huh-huh, he said wood; huh-huh".
	www.free-definition.com /Double-entendre.html (243 words)

	Babs' Foot Fetish: Double Indemnity
		The scene in the movie (which deliberately echoes the provocative first meeting of Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson, as seen in this still) occurs in the dark, late at night, and the camera is placed farther back and to the right, looking past Stanwyck at MacMurray.
		That whole section of the picture, by the way, was added after it had been finished and initially released to the military in 1945, when the studio decided to do some reshoots to beef up rising star Bacall's part.
		Stanwyck plays the femme fatale wife of a man she helps murder for his insurance money -- which pays double if he dies in an accident aboard a commercial carrier (as, for instance, by falling off a train).
	www.cinepad.com /babs/babsff_double.htm (714 words)

	Halfbakery: Double Entendre Splitter
		A third choice would be to leave the text as is, knowing that your double meaning has been 'fully satisfied'.
		The plug-in's database could be added to in a similar way to virus checkers, via regular on-line updates, as and when really good double meanings 'slip their way' in to common usage.
		double entendres are great and a way for the Terminally shy to comunicate(flirt) after all it provides deniability.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Double_20Entendre_20Splitter?op=aye (462 words)

	Double defination of Double. What is Double? Meaning of Double. What does Double mean?
		a double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed.
		Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars.
		That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
	www.question.com /dictionary/double.html (859 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| T-shirts in double-meaning boob
		It seems to draw attention to a woman's chest and imply that she takes a double letter cup size and is therefore rather large of boobs.
		A slogan "Mines A Double" across the chest of a woman would lead me to think they were talking about their bra size, i.e.
		The phrase "Mine's A Double" is most often said when someone WANTS a drink; to attempt to turn it into its opposite meaning, especially without a huge amount of back-up publicity and pre-awareness campaigns, was misguided to say the least.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/4532657.stm (2996 words)

	Qur'an Contradiction: Moses and Pharaoh's Magicians Revisited
		Not satisfied with claiming that the word "his" means actually "their", he now adds the claim that the word "none" also has a double meaning or implication, but fails to explain what those two meanings are supposed to be.
		This means, we have to deal not only with the mystery of the existence of these double meanings but also with the mystery of their effect.
		The meaning of 10:83 is very plain (but wrong) and SBW now tries to appeal to an unclear verse to confuse the meaning of a clear one.
	www.answering-islam.org.uk /Quran/Contra/pharaohs_magicians_r1.html (12106 words)

	RE: Araucanoraptor (with a side order of sour grapes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It could be a double meaning, though, also referring to the fowl-like nature of
		Double meanings are not unknown among dinosaur names (e.g.
		_Elosaurus_ is apparently another example of a double meaning: the first part is from 'helos' (Gk for 'marsh'), and alludes to the lifestyle inferred for sauropods back then, and at the same time honors paleontologist O.C. Marsh.
	dml.cmnh.org /2004Feb/msg00328.html (148 words)

	Double Meaning - AI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is too big of a topic for me to get into explaining, but you can take a look at How Robots Work - AI at HowStuffWorks.com to find out more.
		The second meaning is a little less well known, but one that I hear a lot more often (I'm a veterinary student): "AI" = "Artificial Insemination".
		I'm not going to go into details on this one either, but let's just say that this is how modern agriculture gets from pigs to piglets and from the chicken to the egg.
	van.hep.uiuc.edu /van/qa/section/Everything_Else/Vocabulary/20020923025325.htm (114 words)

	doubleness - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "doubleness" is defined.
		Doubleness : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Example: "Double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical"
	www.onelook.com /?w=doubleness&ls=a (315 words)

	ODE - Literal Sayings That Have Double Meanings
		Note: When working with the blind or visually impaired student, caution must be exercised to explain words or phrases that carry a double meaning.
		Although this characteristic is found in all children, the blind or visually impaired child frequently lacks the concept knowledge gained from everyday life's "untaught" lessons.
		The parent or teacher should not hesitate to use words or phrases that carry a double meaning.
	www.ode.state.or.us /osb/links/resources/literalsayings.htm (263 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tradition and Living Magisterium
		As regards Biblical interpretation properly so called the Church is infallible in the sense that, whether by authentic decision of pope or council, or by its current teaching that a given passage of Scripture has a certain meaning, this meaning must be regarded as the true sense of the passage in question.
		To better understand the latter it must be represented as a current of life and truth coming from God through Christ and through the Apostles to the last of the faithful who repeats his creed and learns his catechism.
		Documents of all kinds (writings, monuments, etc.) are in the hands of masters, as of the faithful, a means of finding or recognizing the revealed truth confided to the Church under the direction of her pastors.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15006b.htm (6434 words)

	Double Meaning Words & Idioms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ages: 7 and Up As the title suggests our Double Meaning Words and Idioms CD targets two areas.
		The double meaning section shows two pictures and a word which has multiple meanings.
		Four sentences are presented one at a time while the student clicks on the picture which matches most closely to the word meaning.
	www.speechroom.com /DoublePage.html (104 words)

	Epsilon Lyrae: the Double Double
		A good small telescope shows that each of these stars is also a double, meaning Epsilon is a double-double, or a quadruple star.
		Whereas the double is very obvious through binoculars, observing the double-double through a telescope requires more scrutiny.
		The component doubles remain close together, and likely appear to touch one another.
	www.idialstars.com /el.htm (300 words)

	ambiguous adj. Having a double meaning. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This last, which is the basis for No. 4 and No. 5, means "a going about," especially by candidates who around solicit votes.
		Synonyms: ambiguous, big, bivalent, double over, double up, doubled, doubling, doubly...
		[ Having a double sense] Equivocalness.-- N. equivocalness andc adj.; double meaning andc.
	www.cbhost.org /odsnends/ambiguous-adj.-Having-a-double-meaning..htm (370 words)

	Adrian’s Curatorship » Blog Archive » double entendre
		I thought it was interesting that he didn’t simply use the phrases double meaning or even innuendo.
		Google does quite a bit better with roughly 48,900 results for the phrase double entendre versus roughly 50,800 results for the phrase double meaning.
		A lady walked into a bar and asked for a double entendre, so the barman gave her one.
	blog.quicksurf.com /index.php?p=483 (484 words)

	DOUBLE MEANING, DOUBLE ENTENDRE. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The French term, pronounced either the English way (DUH-bul ahn-TAHN-druh) or something like the French way (DOOB-lahn-TAHN-druh), and its English translation describe a word or expression that can have two different meanings, one of which is frequently suggestive or off-color.
		In speaking or writing you may use double entendre to amuse, but be sure that your audiences will both understand and enjoy it, or it would be better not to attempt it at all.
		Inadvertent double meanings can embarrass writers or speakers.
	www.aol.bartleby.com /68/2/2002.html (138 words)

	LetsSingIt.com :: Song help :: Name songs with intentional double meaning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But songs where it is obvious (to any poet) that the intention of the writer was to layer one or more meanings, to pretend to be singing about one thing while actually singing about another, or to carefully craft lyrics that mean two different things at all times.
		Let's use “him” and “her” to mean singer and recipient respectively -- although the songs works the other way too, of course, and him/him or her/her too, of course.
		Classic meaning is “I’m sorry for cheating (or not taking out the trash) but forgive me and take me back” Here, it’s used as an apology for a breakup (the let down), for somehow doing something, meeting someone maybe (the mistakes) that made it that he wants to break up now.
	www.letssingit.com /topic-88465-1.html (3028 words)

	Dogpile - Web Search: double
		Class TYPE The Class object representing the primitive type double.
		double reed (oboe and bassoon family) players, instrument manufacturers and enthusiasts.
		Level Double-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
	www.dogpile.com /info.dogpl/search/web/double (257 words)

	double - Wiktionary
		He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.
		Saddam Hussein was rumoured to have many doubles.
		The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.
	www.wiktionary.org /wiki/Double (128 words)

	Double entendre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Innuendo is an indirect and subtle implication in an expression in speech or writing, whereby a sentence has a double meaning.
		When innuendo is used in a sentence, it could go completely undetected by someone who was not familiar with the hidden meaning, and they would find nothing odd about the sentence (aside from other people finding it humorous for seemingly no reason).
		Innuendo often has sexual undertones, in that someone could be implying something related to sex in a seemingly innocent sentence.
	www.jahsonic.com /DoubleEntendre.html (502 words)

	Comments on 2583 \| MetaFilter
		Scharger is no doubt aware of the double meaning of the above quote.
		The article is interesting, but of course you need a subscription to read it, as such, I have taken the liberty of posting the article myself without the WSJ's permission.
		I think you've missed his other double meaning.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/2583 (313 words)

	What is History?
		It is unfortunate that such a double meaning of the word should have grown up, for it is productive of not a little confusion of thought.
		This narrower meaning is the subject of the rest of this article.
		History itself, this double subject, the science and the art combined, begins with the dawn of memory and the invention of speech.
	www.angelfire.com /realm3/worldhistory/history.html (9260 words)

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