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meaning - Is there a difference between treble and triple . . . According to the Cambridge Corpus of American English, Americans strongly prefer triple as an adjective, noun and verb British and Australian writers, on the other hand, seem to use both triple and treble, but with treble more frequent as a verb and triple as a noun and adjective Fowler distinguished between treble meaning that something had become three times as large in size, and triple
Where does the expression triple-A come from? The term "AAA" or "triple-A" is a term mainly used nowadays in the video game industry, according to Wikipedia, for video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher,
Are there examples of triple entendres in English? There are many triple entendres in HipHop, although not respected by most writers and english enthusiasts, HipHop has produce some of the most wittiest lines I've personally ever heard
word choice - Is triple the proper counterpart of pair when . . . 'Triple' can be used as an adjective: triple crown in horse racing, triple score in a video game, a triple scoop for an ice cream cone As a noun or adjective, triple is probably the best of all the examples (the others have more context restricted usage)
Is there a word analogous to dual for three or more options? Re above suggestions: triple and three-fold have the connotation of identical instances or a multiplication of a single instance, which dual does not (They also have the limitation of being related to double and twofold ) Three-way has connotations of some sort of physical object or direction, that I don't want either
How can I form a word like quadruple for any number I want? The usual way is just to find the Latin root and add the suffix: quintuple, sextuple, septuple, nonuple, etc For numbers beyond eight or nine, the -uple construction sounds rather strained, if not downright silly (Duodecuple? Really?) I'd recommend -fold as an alternative ("a ninety-fold increase"), or substitute another counter noun altogether: an "eighty-one piece orchestra"; "a sixteen