Sentence examples for of a double definition from inspiring English sources
The pleasure of a double definition usually lies in its simplicity.
A double definition can on occasion be a thing of beauty; a quintuple definition invariably is.
He notes that electrons have a double definition as a particle and a wave.
As a setter I didn't consider gender an issue until two years ago when a clue I wrote caused a bit of a hoo-ha: 24ac Woman in charge of automobile club (6) As you can see, it's a simple double definition of DRIVER.
If you've just been sweating and chewing over a convoluted clue involving an anagram inside the initial letters of some other words, all of them reversed, a short-clued double definition is like a cool, refreshing sorbet.
The vivid theatre of the Leveson inquiry is made more dangerous for the government because of the announcement from the drier forum of the Office for National Statistics that the economy shrank in both the final quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year, meeting the technical definition of a "double dip".
The second change was a redrawing of the planetary definition in the case of a double planet system.
Note that not all the hurdle-merging inversions will be sorting inversions as merging two hurdles of a double superhurdle will create a new hurdle, too (for a definition of "double superhurdles," see Siepel 2002).
Solving clues such as these leads to all kinds of reversals, which after double definitions (CLOSE), charade clues (SOLICIT) and anagrams (GOETHE), gives our next kind of clue: reversals.
I use a definition of a double-dip recession that doesn't emphasize the short term.
