twofold

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
twofold
    adv 1: by a factor of two; "the price increased twofold last
           year" [syn: {twofold}, {two times}]
    adj 1: having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or
           qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the
           office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and
           private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its
           double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn:
           {double}, {dual}, {twofold}, {two-fold}, {treble},
           {threefold}, {three-fold}]
    2: twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is
       doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: {double}, {doubled},
       {twofold}, {two-fold}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Twofold \Two"fold`\, a. [Cf. {Twifold}.]
   Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a
   twofold sense; a twofold argument.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Twofold \Two"fold`\, adv.
   In a double degree; doubly.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "twofold":
      Janus-like, ambidextrous, as much again, bifacial, bifold, biform,
      bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate,
      disomatous, double, double-barreled, double-faced, doubly, dual,
      dualistic, dually, duple, duplex, duplicate, dyadic, geminate,
      geminated, paired, second, secondary, twice, twice as much,
      twice over, twin, twinned, two times, two-faced, two-level,
      two-ply, two-sided, two-story

    

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