tripleadj.adv.

/ˈtrɪp(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s tryple. ( treeple), 1600s tripill, 1600s–1700s (1800s U.S.) tripple, 1500s– triple.

Etymology: < French triple (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), or < Latin triplus, < Greek τριπλοῦς, = Latin triplex threefold.

A. adj.

1. Consisting of three members, things, or sets combined; threefold; = treble adj. 1.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > condition of being threefold > [adjective]

thrilec725

threefoldc1000

treblec1374

trinec1386

thrinfalda1400

tripartitec1420

triparted1429

ternaryc1430

trinary1474

triplicate?a1475

trivial?a1475

triplage1526

threefolded1528

triple1552

treblefold1561

trifold1578

trinal1590

tripart1592

ternal1599

triplexa1616

tergeminous1656

ternarious1656

triplasian1678

triplet1697

ternarian1732

triangular1812

Trinitarian1812

triplasic1864

three-body1936

triplexed1974

1552 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 78 One sute of tryple aparrell of whighte satten.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. viii. 233/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The triple tillage of an acre dooth cost 13 shillings foure pence before the saffron be set.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. i. 53 The Philosopher gathers a triple proportion,..the Arithmeticall, the Geometricall, and the Musical.

c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) ii. cxxxvii. 1132 There stood ye Monarche of this tripple Isle.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 379 The triple Porter of the Stygian Sound: Grim Cerberus.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 266 A triple thorn beneath the buds.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xxiii. 536 The trireme or war-ship with a triple bank of oars.

1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Objects Indian Art S. Kensington Mus. 127 Triple rows of chains.

2. Having three applications or relations; existing or occurring in three ways or characters; of three kinds; = treble adj. 1b.

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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 81^v By triple Hecates holie rites.

1587 in T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) iv. xii. §15. 414 (margin) [There is] a triple vse of fasting.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 From hence there ariseth a triple Word of God,..to which Correspondeth a triple Hearing.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. viii. 173 The Sun..whose triple Influx Motion, Light, and Heat, affecteth all things.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 10 Their choice was triple.

3. Three times as much or many; of three times the measure or amount; multiplied by three.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adjective]

thrina1012

threefoldc1175

trebled?c1400

triplatec1430

triplicate?a1475

triplated1486

triple1549

tripled1583

thrice1602

triplicated1635

1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Cii If any man do the desire Him to defende in doynge wronge Though he would give the triple hire Yet geue none eare unto his song.

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Eiii For .9. is triple to .3: and .12. is triple to .4.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §1. 561 Great conquests are wont to repay the charges of warre with triple interest.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 169 The quantity should not be less than triple the weight of the solids consumed.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 195 The detached figure..shews a part of the top of the wall..to a triple scale.

1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 344 Each pyramid is the third part of the prism, or the prism is triple of the pyramid.

†4. That is one of three; third. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [adjective] > that is one of three

thirdsomec1425

triplea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 12 You shall see in him (The triple Pillar of the world) transform'd Into a Strumpets Foole.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 107 One [receipt], Which..He bad me store vp, as a triple eye, Safer then mine owne two.

B. adv.

To three times the amount or extent; in a threefold manner; triply; thrice. See also Compounds 2.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adverb]

treble13..

thricea1400

threefoldc1400

treblefold1532

triplefold1570

triplewise1594

triple1606

1606 [see triple-formed adj. at Compounds 1a(a)]. 1606 [see triple-dyed adj. at Compounds 2a].

1641 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) I. Introd. 31 Coining of the Stirling coper monie..could not have been done the ordinare way for triple more charges.

1643 R. Baillie Let. 2 June (1841) II. 71 Triple more already than ever was taught in Scotland.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 12 If we had double or triple as many.

1775 [see triple-compounded adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1804 [see triple-twined adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1824 [see triple-refined adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1897 [see triple-compound adj. at Compounds 2a].

Compounds

C1. The adjective in combination.

a. Parasynthetic.

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triple-arched adj.

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1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 95 A casement high and triple-arch'd there was.

triple-barbed adj.

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1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 204 Wounding him on the shoulder with a triple-barbed arrow.

triple-barrelled adj.

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1934 W. S. Churchill Marlborough II. xxv. 561 Between their squadrons appeared the triple-barrelled guns, which opened a remarkably rapid fire.

1977 Navy News Sept. 2/3 Up, up, and away goes H.M.S. Salisbury's Squid triple-barrelled mortar, the last firing mounting in the Royal Navy.

triple-barred adj.

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1905 Daily Chron. 22 Sept. 1/7 He is now in a cell triple-barred and double-locked.

triple-bolted adj.

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1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 226 At some sick miser's triple-bolted gate.

triple-bearded adj.

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1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 201 The triple-bearded Teuton come to life!

triple-chorded adj.

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1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. x. 634 The triple-chorded harmony of faith, holiness, and charity.

triple-toothed adj.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fourchier à trois dents, a triple-toothed forke.

triple-bodied adj.

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1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ddi The triple-bodied Pluto.

triple-coloured adj.

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1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 140 Triple-coloured tortoises.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 897 When he brings Over the Earth a Cloud, [God] will therein set His triple-colour'd Bow.

triple-crested adj.

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1717 E. Fenton tr. Homer Odyssey xi, in Poems 126 To drag to light the triple-crested Dog That guards Hell's massy Portal.

triple-crowned adj.

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1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot Epist. sig. A^v Their Tripple Crown'd Idol at Rome.

triple-edged adj.

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1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 21 A triple-edged spear or sword.

triple-formed adj.

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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 66 A great Cornaline, Where some rare Artist..Hath deeply cut Times triple-formed Front.

triple-gemmed adj.

triple-hatted adj.

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1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 218 A black spectral Nightmare and triple-hatted Chimera.

triple-hummocked adj.

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1876 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 64 The triple-hummocked Giant's Stool.

triple-lived adj.

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1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 118. ⁋1 To deal with them as Evander did with his triple-lived Adversary.

triple mirrored adj.

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1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep vii. 45 There was perfume on the triple-mirrored dressing table.

1970 R. Rendell Guilty Thing Surprised iii. 38 Between the two mirrors stood a triple-mirrored dressing table.

triple-nerved adj.

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1805 tr. K. L. Willdenow Princ. Bot. & Veg. Physiol. 34 A leaf is said to be..Triple-nerved, (triplinervium), when out of the side of the middle rib above the base there arises a nerve running towards the point.

triple-piled adj.

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1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xx. 57 On triple-piled Throne-velvets, shall we see him bless the poor.

triple-rayed adj.

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1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 124 Our Saviour is represented..distinguished by the triple-rayed nimbus.

triple-ribbed adj.

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1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 47 Root-leaves crowded..petals rounded, triple-ribbed.

triple-stranded adj.

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1906 Daily News 4 Sept. 6 The construction of the triple-aisled nave [of Strassburg Cathedral].

triple-throated adj.

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1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iv. 59 The Dog, whose triple throated noyse, Hath rowzd a Lyon from his vncouth den.

triple-tiered adj.

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1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 267 Flames, triple tier'd, and tides of smoke, arise, And fulminations rock the seas and skies.

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) ii. 23 A balcony overlooking the Outer City gave a view of the distant, triple-tiered, blue-glazed round roofs of the Temple of Heaven.

1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha i. 11 He..went to his triple-tiered pipe rack.

triple-towered adj.

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c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. at Triple Triple-towered, gate, double-leaved.

triple-turreted adj.

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a1550 in S. Baring-Gould & R. Twigge Armory Western Counties (1898) 3 Barnestaple Towne: Arg: a triple turreted tower gul: betweene 3 ogresses.

(b) Also triple-headed adj.

triple-awned adj. in triple-awned grass, = three-awned adj. at three adj. and n. Compounds 3b.

triple-spaced adj. typed or formatted so that two blank lines separate adjacent lines of text; also as quasi-adv.; (see triple adj. and adv. above).

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [adjective] > with two blank lines between lines of text

triple-spaced1946

1946 R. Chandler Let. 6 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 80 The silly little triple-spaced half pages I type on.

1966 F. Stewart Deadly Nightcap iii. 40 There were margins of twenty degrees on either side of the typescript, and it was triple-spaced.

1978 M. H. Clark Stranger is Watching xix. 81 I typed them triple-spaced.

b. In combination with nouns, forming adjectives or attributive phrases.

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triple-action adj.

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1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 725/2 A triple-action die, when in operation, has a movement, produced by springs or a triple-action press, of two punches, two matrices, or a punch and a matrix, within either the upper or lower half of the die.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. (Suppl.) 11/1 From Steiner comes news of two brand new hair aids. The first is Pearl Foam, a triple-action shampoo which cleanses, adds lustre and protects the hair from the weather.

1974 M. Taylor tr. C. Metz Film Lang. ix. 233 This triple-action construction gives the ending of the film..its true meaning.

triple-compartment adj.

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1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 293 The main working shaft, which is tripple compartment.

triple-cylinder adj.

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a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2628/2 Triple-cylinder engine, a steam-engine employing three cylinders.

triple-digit adj.

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1976 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. iii. 15/6 The foot-dragging is caused by Argentina's triple-digit inflation.

1979 Time 28 May 12 The cost of living for April had jumped a shocking 8·7%, more than 100% if projected over the entire year. The admission provoked howls of alarm that the country could be heading toward uncontrollable triple-digit inflation.

triple-expansion adj. (see expansion n. 7).

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1882 Engineering 12 May 474/1 I may mention that within the last few weeks there has been a steamer completed to work at a pressure of 150 lb. per square inch with triple expansion engines very similar to those fitted in the Aberdeen.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Sept. 13/2 These steamers..are provided with triple expansion engines.

triple-extension adj.

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1893 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 17 The ‘triple-extension’ type [of camera].

triple-hearth adj.

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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 339 The Bennett Mill carries ten stamps, six triple-hearth reverberatory roasting-furnaces [etc.].

triple-line adj.

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1889 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines (new ed.) 220 The Greys filed off in a triple-line formation.

triple-lock adj.

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1895 Daily News 14 Mar. 5/5 The ticket will be dropped in a triple-lock box.

triple-rack adj.

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1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 545 Large size (patent) triple-rack telescopic front tubes.

triple-shift adj.

triple-threat adj.

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1939 W. H. Baumer Sports as taught & played at West Point 40 Any backs who possess the three qualifications of being a good runner, passer and kicker to a marked degree are triple-threat men.

1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 67 Football no longer requires the triple threat back—the player who can run and kick as well as punt.

triple-wick adj.

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1892 Photogr. Ann. II. Advt. Triple Wick Lamps,..Four Wick Lamps.

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triple-screw adj. having three screw-propellers.

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1901 Daily Mail 30 Oct. 5/3 A series of six triple-screw 14,865 ton battleships.

triple agent n. = treble agent n. at treble adj. and adv. Compounds 1d.

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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > a secret observer, spy > secret agent > serving more than one master

double agent1935

treble agent1967

triple agent1968

1968 J. Wainwright Web of Silence 94 Jackson figures he's created a double-agent. We don't agree. The way we see it, Schneller's maybe a triple-agent.

1982 T. Heald Masterstroke viii. 159 Something in Intelligence. Our Intelligence. Theirs too... A triple agent at least.

triple alliance n. an alliance of three states, powers, or organizations, spec. (usually with capital initials) (a) that of England, Sweden, and the Netherlands in 1668; (b) that of France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands in 1717; (c) that of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in 1882; (d) that of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the National Union of Railwaymen, and the National Transport Workers' Federation in 1914.The Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy lasted until the outbreak of the First World War war in 1914; cf. Central Powers n. at central adj. Compounds. Great Britain, France, and Russia responded with the Triple Entente (cf. triple entente n.).Occasionally in extended use: see quot. a1933.

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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > alliance of trade unions

triple alliance1645

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > of three states

triple alliance1645

Central Powers1882

1645 S. Goffe Let. 2 May in Ld. George Digby's Cabinet (1646) 24 There is more substance in this triple alliance [i.e. of Holland, France, and the Royalists], if it may be gotten, then in any other councell in the world.

1668 W. Temple Lett. (1699) xv. 56 Monsieur de Witt: Who, he said, hindred them from being received into the Triple-Alliance.

1716 J. Addison Drummer v. 46 But here comes the Triple-Alliance [sc. three Rogues].

1718 Hist. Reg. 1717 No. 9 28 The Alliance concluded between the Emperor and his Britannick Majesty, the Triple Alliance between Great Britain, France, and Holland.

1799 Monthly Rev. 30 528 This design..gave rise to the Triple alliance..to support the treaty of Utrecht.

1883 Leeds Mercury 12 Mar. 5/4 The speaker urged that England should be added to the triple alliance, because Italy would thereby secure in Egypt..a position equal with other Powers.

1902 Rep. Proc. Amer. Federation Labor 105 The formation of the triple alliance made at the city of Philadelphia, Pa., in the year 1895, between the International Typographical Union, the International Printing Pressmen and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders.

1914 Times 19 June 9/2 The great triple alliance of miners', railwaymen's, and transport workers' unions discussed yesterday at the meeting of the National Union of Railwaymen.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 779 Sometimes there is a triple alliance. Thus gall-midges that attack flowers of mulleins, scrophularias, and capers provoke galls inside which an ambrosia fungus (q.v.) flourishes.

1991 K. Laybourn Brit. Trade Unionism 107 The Triple Alliance was called to operate for the first time in 1921.

1993 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 31 July 47 The triple alliance between Glaxo Holdings PLC, Warner-Lambert Co. and Wellcome PLC announced this week is striking evidence of an industry under pressure.

2004 P. A. Weitsman Dangerous Alliances v. 105 A final, crucial catalyst that compelled Russia to balance was the renewal of the Triple Alliance.

triple bob major n. apparently an error for treble bob major: see bob n.⁵

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes > specific

set peal16..

grandsire1668

whole pull1668

bob1671

peal1671

course1677

set changes1677

single1684

single change1688

Plain Bob1702

Stedman1731

Superlative Surprise1788

touch1788

triple1798

triple bob major1809

maximus1813

royal1813

call changes1837

slam1854

cater1872

cinques1872

triple change1872

plain hunt1874

plain hunting1874

quarter peal1888

method1901

short course1904

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. ii. 79 The bells..rung a triple bob-major on the joyful occasion.

a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 200 The blithe ‘College Youths’..Accustom'd, for years, to pull bell-ropes for wagers—Rang, faster than ever, their ‘triple-bob-majors’.

triple bond n. [bond n.¹ 13e] Chemistry a bond in which the two atoms ‘share’ three pairs of electrons rather than one pair; hence as adjective.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical bonding > [adjective] > of or relating to covalent bonding > of or relating to a triple bond

triple bond1889

1889 G. M'Gowan tr. A. Bernthsen Text-bk. Org. Chem. i. 55 The constitutional formula for acetylene, C₂H₂, is assumed to be CHCH, according to which the carbon atoms are joined together by a triple bond.

1971 Nature 10 Dec. 333/2 The CO molecule has a very stable triple bond which is difficult to dissociate.

triple-bonded adj.

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1937 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 59 2091/2 The carbon-oxygen bond [in BH₃CO] presumably involves resonance between double- and triple-bonded structures.

1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. xiii. 484 In the most extreme cases there is some reason for saying that oxygen is triple-bonded.

triple change n. Bell-ringing one in which three pairs of bells change places.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes > specific

set peal16..

grandsire1668

whole pull1668

bob1671

peal1671

course1677

set changes1677

single1684

single change1688

Plain Bob1702

Stedman1731

Superlative Surprise1788

touch1788

triple1798

triple bob major1809

maximus1813

royal1813

call changes1837

slam1854

cater1872

cinques1872

triple change1872

plain hunt1874

plain hunting1874

quarter peal1888

method1901

short course1904

1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon iii. 232 After 1677..Stedman..appears to have introduced the method of double and triple changes.

triple concerto n. a concerto with three solo parts.

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1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 389/1 Sometimes concertos are written for more than one solo instrument, and are then known as double, triple, etc., concertos as the case may be.

1932 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 8/3 In March a triple concerto for flute, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra by J. R. Heath will be introduced.

1985 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 9 The London Sinfonietta..had played the Triple Concerto on the first night of the Tippett birthday celebration week.

triple counterpoint n. three-part counterpoint in which the parts may be interchanged without breaking the rules.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > counterpoint

counterpoint1597

contrapunct1694

polyphony1790

polyphonism1864

triple counterpoint1869

polyphone1875

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xvii. 134 Triple and quadruple counterpoints..consist of three or four melodies so interwoven that any of them may become a correct bass to the others.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 439/2 Triple counterpoint, a counterpoint in three parts, so contrived that each part will serve for bass, middle, or upper part as required.

triple cross n. the act of betraying one party in a transaction by pretending to betray the other, or of betraying a person who has betrayed another.

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1971 J. Aiken Nightly Deadshade vii. 76 I..resolve to set a few subliminal tests for my fellow-conspirators..in case they are working the triple-cross.

1978 Times 25 Jan. 11/5 Anthony Price is a master of the double (or even triple) cross.

triple-crossing adj.

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1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xix. 236 ‘Kind of double-crossing.’ ‘It ain't. It's triple-crossing. It's the public that gets double-crossed.’

triple crown n. a threefold crown; spec. (a) the papal tiara; also, a heraldic bearing representing this = tiara n. 2b; (b) in horse racing, the winning of the three races known as the ‘Two Thousand Guineas’, the ‘Derby’, and the ‘St. Leger’ (also attributive); (c) also applied to several other instances of winning three victories in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, and, in Rugby Union and hockey, the winning by England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales of victory over each of the other three in the same season.

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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > tiara

triple crown1555

tiar1616

tiaraa1660

triple hat1841

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [noun] > crowns and coronets

triple crown1555

coronet1709

radiate crown1752

tiara1780

Venice crownc1828

society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > set or series, considered as an achievement

triple crown1897

slam1934

grand slam1948

treble1959

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > winning three races

triple crown1897

treble1924

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > winning three internationals

triple crown1899

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > three international wins

triple crown1953

1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 226^v A triple crowne much lyke the popes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 66.

1624 W. Bedel Copies Certaine Lett. iv. 78 In one scutchion with the crosse Keyes and triple crown in the crest.

1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Tiara, or Triple Crown, with clouds in base issuing rays, being part of the arms of the Drapers' Company.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) viii. 272 The triple crown of the papacy.

1894 Parker's Gloss. Her. Tiara, the pope's triple crown occurs in the arms of one Company.

1897 Daily News 7 Sept. 5/1 What the sporting prophets love to call the ‘triple crown’,..the Two Thousand, the Derby, and the St. Leger.

1899 Whitaker's Almanack 648/2 In their last match at Cardiff against Wales, Ireland won by a try to nothing, securing the triple crown with three straight victories as in 1894.

1901 Daily Chron. 20 July 9/1 The triple-crown winner stood a sound 6 to 4 on chance.

1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 413 Race horses which win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont are said to win the Triple Crown.

1953 Times 10 Apr. 4/5 A victory for England [over Scotland at hockey] will mean that the meeting of Ireland and England in Dublin on April 18 will be a fight for the triple crown.

1974 Sunday Tel. 7 Apr. 36/7 Hockey history was made on the Cardiff University ground at Llanrumney where Wales won the Championship and took the Triple Crown for the first time since the quadrangular tourney began in 1903.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 6/4 She may never win a Triple Crown race herself—no woman ever has—but she says she'll ‘definitely ride again; it's in my blood’.

1978 World of Tennis (BP Yearbk.) 179 The Virginia Slims Championship is the first event in the Triple Crown (Wimbledon and Forest Hills are the others) which has replaced the Grand Slam at the pinnacle of achievement in women's tennis.

1979 M. Boyce I was There! 47/2 Twelve..the number of times Wales have won the Triple Crown.

1979 Harvard Gaz. 23 Feb. 2 Zoo Captain Bill Renke is the only person to have won the tiddlywinks Triple Crown—the Singles, Pairs, and Team Championships.

triple entente n. an informal alliance of three states or powers, spec. (usually with capital initials) that of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which formed the basis of the Allied powers in the First World War (1914–18).The Triple Entente between Great Britain, France, and Russia developed from the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894 (formed to counterbalance the threat posed by the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy; cf. triple alliance n. (c)), the Anglo-French Entente of 1904, and the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. Cf. entente cordiale n.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > entente

entente cordiale1844

entente1854

triple entente1886

1886 Standard 11 Aug. 5/3 The late Conferences at Gastein have resulted in removing the differences recently existing between Russia and the Austro-German Allies, and..the former Triple entente will most likely be shortly re-established.

1894 Speaker 22 Dec. 676/2 France and Russia had already been leagued by a bond something stronger than that of a mere entente. The proper completion of these rapprochements would be the establishment of an understanding between England and France, and the formation, if not of a new Triple Alliance, at least of a Triple Entente.

1910 Encycl. Brit. IX. 949/1 (heading) The Triple entente and the Triple Alliance.

1914 Times 5 Aug. 7/4 First came the Franco-Russian Alliance, and later on the Anglo-French, and the Anglo-Russian agreements, which paved the way for the diplomatic group known as the Triple Entente.

1954 G. L. Weinberg Germany & Soviet Union ii. 22 The possibilities for holding off a new Triple Entente had to be explored.

1998 Times 30 Nov. 11/2 Herr Schröder has talked of a triple entente between Paris, Bonn and London.

2004 Harvard Ukrainian Stud. 27 151 When the First World War broke out in August 1914 between the Triple Entente and the Central Powers [etc.].

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triple first n. at Cambridge University, a first class in three triposes; also, one who obtains this.

triple fugue n. Music a fugue having three subjects.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > fugue > type of

in nomine1565

ricercatac1715

ricercare1773

fugato1876

fughetta1876

triple fugue1876

double fugue1880

tiento1905

mirror fugue1931

clausula1944

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 180/1 Fugues have been divided..By number of subjects; as a double fugue, having two subjects; a triple fugue, three subjects, &c.

triple gown n. see quot.

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1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 720/2 The double or triple gowns (the Judges with the double and triple salaries).

† triple grass n. Obsolete the genus Trifolium.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil

white clovereOE

cloverc1000

hare-foota1300

clerewort?a1400

clover-grassa1400

three-leaved grass14..

trefoilc1400

sucklingc1440

four-leaved grassc1450

trefle1510

Trifolium?1541

trinity grass1545

Dutch1548

lote1548

hare's-foot1562

lotus1562

triple grass1562

blain-grass1570

meadow trefoil1578

purple grass1597

purplewort1597

satin flower1597

cithyse1620

true-love grass?a1629

garden balsam1633

hop-clover1679

Burgundian hay1712

strawberry trefoil1731

honeysuckle trefoil1735

red clover1764

buffalo-clover1767

marl-grass1776

purple trefoil1785

white trefoil1785

yellow trefoil1785

sulla1787

cow-grass1789

strawberry-bearing trefoil1796

zigzag trefoil1796

rabbit's foot1817

lotus grass1820

strawberry-headed trefoil1822

mountain liquorice1836

hop-trefoil1855

clustered clover1858

alsike1881

mountain clover1882

knop1897

Swedish clover1908

sub clover1920

four-leaf clover1927

suckle-

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 33, in Bulwarke of Defence Trifolium, called the three leaued grasse. [Margin] Triple grasse.

triple hat n. the papal tiara.

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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > tiara

triple crown1555

tiar1616

tiaraa1660

triple hat1841

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 217 You with your tiaras, triple-hats,..stand on the Devil's Lie, and are not so strong!

triple jump n. an athletic long jump event, also known as the hop, step, and jump (cf. hop n.² 3a).

1964 M. Watman Encycl. Athletics 150/1 Basically, the rules for the triple jump (formerly known as the hop, step and jump) are identical with those governing the long jump.

1972 N.Y. Times 4 June 4/7 The runner-up in the voting was John Craft, who set an American triple-jump record of 55-5.

triple junction n. Geology a region at which the boundaries of three lithospheric plates meet; (Geology), a point where three grain boundaries meet at angles of approximately 120 degrees.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > lithospheric plate > junction

triple junction1969

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [noun] > texture > meeting of grain boundaries

triple junction1969

1969 Nature 11 Oct. 125/2 Evolution of such triple junctions can produce many of the changes which would otherwise appear to have been caused by a change in the direction or magnitude of the relative motion between plates.

1976 R. H. Vernon Metamorphic Processes v. 137 Three grains meet at a point (‘triple junction’), the inter~facial angles closely approximating 120°.

1979 B. F. Mallory & D. N. Cargo Physical Geol. xvii. 437 Examination of these triple junctions shows that the three branches of the junction may involve convergence, divergence, or translational (sideways) movement.

1982 S. Aramaki & T. Ui in R. S. Thorpe Andesites iii. 260/1 Japan and the surrounding islands form three chains of island arcs which meet at a trench-trench-type triple junction located at c. 34° N and 142° E.

† triple Lady's traces n. Obsolete a species of orchid with three tubers.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > helleborine or lady's tresses

lady's traces1548

orchis1578

sweet orchis1578

butterfly orchis1597

triple Lady's traces1611

goodyera1813

lady's tresses1820

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Satyrion à trois couillons, Triple Orchis, or triple Ladies traces.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvii. 421 The Spiral Ophrys, commonly called Triple Ladies Traces.

triple line n. Geometry a line, plane, or point formed by the coincidence of three lines, planes, or points.

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1901 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1896–1901 30 624 Four real tangent planes can be drawn to the focal surface through the triple line.

triple mirror n. = three-way mirror at three-way adj. a.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > other mirrors

perspective glass1570

side mirror1769

index-glass1773

Claude Lorraine glass1792

anamorphoscopea1884

magnetic mirror1884

ox-eye1890

busybody1892

rear mirror1896

triple mirror1907

three-way mirror1964

two-way mirror1967

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 110/2 Triple folding mirrors..Size of glass, 9 by 9 in.—20/3.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. xiv. 164 A real dressing-table with a triple mirror.

1967 ‘K. O'Hara’ Unknown Man iv. 29 She adjusted the triple mirror and took up the eye~liner.

triple phosphate n. Chemistry phosphate of ammonium and magnesium.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > phosphates or phosphites > specific named

microcosmic salt1770

superphosphate1798

oxyphosphate1815

hypophosphite1818

thorina1818

tri-phosphate1823

bone phosphate1834

phosphate1849

triple phosphate1857

hypophosphate1864

trimethyl-phosphine1866

hexametaphosphate1891

trimetaphosphate1894

triose phosphate1934

1857 E. L. Birkett Bird's Urinary Deposits (ed. 5) 276 The triple phosphate which is precipitated artificially from urine..is a neutral salt.

1890 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch Clin. Diagnosis vii. 276 It [urine] deposits on standing a more or less abundant deposit of fat-laden and swollen leucocytes and triple-phosphate crystals.

triple pit n. Mining a shaft divided into three compartments lengthwise: see quot.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine

work1474

firework1606

stemple1653

stool1653

bink1675

engine pit1687

swamp1691

feeder1702

wall1728

bag1742

sill1747

stope1747

rose cistern1778

striking-house1824

plat1828

stemplar1828

screen chamber1829

offtake1835

footwall1837

triple pit1839

stamp1849

paddock1852

working floor1858

pit house1866

ground-sluice1869

screen tower1871

planilla1877

undercurrent1877

mill1878

blanket-sluice1881

stringing-deal1881

wagon-breast1881

brushing-bed1883

poppet-leg1890

slippet1898

stable1906

overcut1940

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 970 A shaft is to be divided into three compartments, one for the engine pumps, and two for raising coals,..which is denominated a triple pit.

triple plane n. see triple line n.

triple play n. in baseball, play in which three men are put out.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of play

triple play1869

squeeze play1905

safety squeeze1922

small ball1986

1869 De Witt's Official Base Ball Guide 42 Remarks concerning double and triple plays will apply to the third baseman as much as to either of the other base-players.

1896 R. G. Knowles & M. Morton Baseball 103 Triple play, a play in which the ball is handled quickly enough to retire three men.

triple point n. (a) (Geometry), a point common to three branches of a curve, or at which the curve has three tangents: see triple line n.; (b) (Physics), the temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and vapour phases of a pure substance can coexist in equilibrium; the point representing this state in a phase diagram (marked by the junction of three lines); more widely, an analogous state or point for any three phases of a substance; (c) (Geology), an invariant point involving three phases, e.g. where kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite are stable in the system Al₂ SiO₅.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > on a curve

first polar1836

umbilic1843

spinode1852

stationary point1856

ineunt1859

triple point1872

tacnode-cusp1873

the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > phases > [noun] > phase transitions > points

triple point1872

isosbestic point1925

1872 J. Thomson in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1871 ii. 32 We must suppose three curves (namely, the line between gas and liquid, the line between liquid and solid, and the line between gas and solid) to meet in one point... This point of pressure and temperature for any substance may then be called the triple point for that substance.

1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xiv. §209 If the lowest terms in the equation of a curve be of the third degree, the origin is a triple point.

1879 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 731/2 At this point the steam line, ice line, and hoar-frost line intersect, and it has therefore been called the triple point.

1955 Sci. Amer. Mar. 52/3 In another change, the absolute temperature scale was redefined in terms of a single fixed reference point—the triple point of water.

1964 J. H. Brophy et al. Thermodynamics of Struct. ii. 20 If the specified temperature and pressure are the coordinates of point D, all three phases coexist in equilibrium with one another. Point D is called the triple point.

1966 Units & Standards of Measurem.: Temperature (Nat. Physical Lab.) (ed. 2) 18 Changes made in 1960 to the text of the International Temperature Scale of 1948... The triple-point of water was given formal status as one of the defining fixed points of the scale... Its value was given as 0·01°C (Int. 1948) and the ice point appeared among the secondary fixed points with the value 0·000°C.

1978 Nature 14 Dec. 696/2 One possible reason..is that a solid–solid–liquid triple point could exist near 10⁷ Pa..in the proposed phase diagram [of carbon].

1979 K. G. Cox et al. Interpretation of Igneous Rocks iii. 47 Figure 3.1 shows a one-component phase diagram for a substance such as H₂O. It consists of three fields in each of which a single phase exists. Each pair of fields meets in a curve along which two phases co-exist, and the three fields meet in a point U (so-called triple point) at which all three phases co-exist.

1983 D. S. Barker Igneous Rocks iii. 28 The ‘triple point’ where liquid, vapor, and solid coexist in equilibrium has yet to be experimentally located for any silicate.

† triple progression n. Music Obsolete see quot.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > specific

report1502

augmentationc1570

diminution1597

consecution1655

inversion1664

imitation1728

sequence1737

oblique motion1786

Rosalia1786

triple progression1786

parallel motion1864

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Triple Progression, an expression in old music, implying a series of perfect fifths.

† triple proportion n. Obsolete = triple ratio n.

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1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Ci Proportion..Doble, Triple, Quadriple.

1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 180 (note) 12 compared to 4 is Multiple Proportion, and named triple.

triple quartan n. (also triple quartan ague) a quartan ague in which the paroxysms occur in sets of three.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration

tertian1362

quartana1387

quotidiana1398

ephemera1398

quarterna1568

day-fever1601

nonan1601

quintan1601

septimane1601

sextan1601

semitertian1609

triple quartan1625

diary1640

septan1657

third ague1674

quartanary1684

subintrant1684

intermittent1693

nonary1747

seven day fever1788

octan1799

third-day ague1818

type-fever1819

triple tertian1822

triplicate quartan (ague)1822

tetartophyia1842

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. v. 79 I went to a Canon who lay sicke of a triple Quartane ague.

triple ratio n. the ratio of three to one.

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triple rhythm n. Music a threefold rhythm consisting of one heavy and two light accents or beats.

triple rime n. (also triple rhyme) see rhyme n. 1c (but in quot. 1872 = terza rima n.).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > terza rima

triple rime1727

terza rima1819

third rhyme1820

triple (also treble) rhyme1869

tierce rhyme1877

1727–38 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rhyme Rhymes are either single, or double, or triple... Single Rhymes are divided into perfect or whole rhymes, and imperfect or half rhymes.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 233/2 Such words as roaring, de-ploring, form double rhimes; and an-nuity, gra-tuity, triple rhimes.

1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 158 In the form of the verse (triple rhyme) we may find an emblem of the Trinity.

triple salt n. Chemistry a salt containing three different bases.

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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > specific types

perfixed salt1601

triple salt1800

persalt1822

bisalt1823

oxy-salt1833

sesquisalt1839

potash1843

Mohr's salt1905

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 248 When the quantity of ammonia corresponds with that of the nitrate of magnesia necessary to form a triple salt, the precipitation is then checked.

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 886 Triple salts, a name sometimes applied to salts containing three different bases, such as microcosmic salt.

triple screw n. a screw having three consecutive threads of the same pitch ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

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1891 Cent. Dict. Triple screw.

triple spacing n. the spacing of typewritten or other text so that two blank lines separate adjacent lines of text (see triple-spaced adj. at Compounds 1a(b) below).

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society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > spacing between lines

single-spacing1956

triple spacing1957

1957 A. C. Lloyd et al. Gregg Typewriting for Colleges 2/1 In triple spacing, typing appears on every third line with 2 blank lines between the typed ones.

1978 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Dec. 1724/3 Typing should be on one side of the paper, with double or triple spacing between the lines.

triple star n. a treble star (see treble adj. and adv. Compounds 1d).

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the world > the universe > star > kind of star > by position > [noun] > treble star

treble star1782

triple star1831

triple1890

1831 Encycl. Brit. IV. 47/1 M. Struve has also taken notice of 52 triple stars.

triple suspension n. Music see quot.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > suspension, anticipation, etc.

resolution1721

preparation1728

postposition1730

retardation1730

suspense1737

suspension1786

anticipation1819

triple suspension1876

percussion1880

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 412/2 Two suspended notes form a double suspension; three a triple suspension, and so on.

triple tail n. a fish, Lobotes surinamensis, in which the dorsal and anal fins are extended so as to resemble tails.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Lobotidae (triple tail)

triple tail1803

grouper1884

1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 80 The tail..appears as if composed of three distinct parts,..hence the name of Triurus, or Triple-Tail, applied to this fish by Commerson.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 148 The ‘Flasher’ or ‘Triple-tail’..is spoken of by various authors as the ‘Black Triple-tail’.

triple tertian n. (also triple tertian ague) cf. triple quartan n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration

tertian1362

quartana1387

quotidiana1398

ephemera1398

quarterna1568

day-fever1601

nonan1601

quintan1601

septimane1601

sextan1601

semitertian1609

triple quartan1625

diary1640

septan1657

third ague1674

quartanary1684

subintrant1684

intermittent1693

nonary1747

seven day fever1788

octan1799

third-day ague1818

type-fever1819

triple tertian1822

triplicate quartan (ague)1822

tetartophyia1842

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 99 The fifth species [of ague]..consisting of double tertians, triple tertians, unequal tertians, duplicate tertians.

triple time n. Music a rhythm of three beats in the bar (transferred in prosody); also compound triple time (see compound adj. 2f).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms

triplac1550

semibreve time1591

common measure1597

common time1597

nonupla1597

triple1597

binary measure1609

triple time1654

treble time1686

ternary measure or time1728

alla breve1731

ribattuta1740

four-four time1826

compound time1848

dotted rhythm1872

six-eight tempo1873

six-four1873

six-eight time1884

six-four time1884

six-two time1884

twelve-eight1884

slow drag1901

two-rhythm1901

three-four1902

sprung rhythm1944

songo1978

one-drop1979

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > types of rhythm

beat-rhythmc1873–4

triple time1880

counter-rhythm1927

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 15 One being called Triple Time, the other the duple, or common Time.

1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 74 If..we banish our slow Tunes, and sing only Triple-Time Tunes to pure Iambic Measure.

1880 G. M. Hopkins Let. 5 Sept. (1935) 107 So far as I know triple time is in English verse a shy and late thing.

1889 F. Taylor in G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 174/1 When a bar of triple time consists of two notes only the accent is always on the longer note.

triple-tongue v. [as a back-formation] (intransitive)

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > tongue

tongue1936

triple-tongue1951

1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. i. 7 He triple-tongued up the scale to high C.

1967 Crescendo Feb. 23/3 The band stopped for several bars, and Charles triple-tongued—at breakneck tempo—and never faltered or slowed down once.

triple tonguing n. the use of the tongue to achieve rapid articulation in groups of three notes on the flute and brass instruments.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > tonguing

triple tonguing1879

tonguing1880

flutter1926

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 459/2 Triple tongueing is also possible.

1951 W. Morum Gabriel ii. vi. 211 You could rattle out triple-tonguing stuff when you was a kid.

1961 C. W. Monk in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xi. 280 Rapid passages are managed by alternating ‘t’ and ‘k’ in ‘double-tonguing’ and fast triplets by ‘triple tonguing’ ‘ttk’ (or ‘tkt, ktk’).

triple unite n. see unite n.

triple vaccine n. Medicine (a) a vaccine containing three species of the Salmonella bacteria, used as a prophylactic against typhoid and paratyphoid; (b) a vaccine containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and the killed whooping cough organism, administered in early childhood as a prophylactic against conditions caused by these.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [noun] > other vaccines

retro-vaccine1841

triple vaccine1917

Salk vaccine1954

1917 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 22 Sept. 100/2 The reaction following the inoculation of the triple vaccine was no different than when the typhoid vaccine was alone used.

1947 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1 327 A reinvestigation of the antigenicity of the strains routinely used for the preparation of typhoid and ‘triple’ vaccine..resulted in the introduction of strains rich in somatic antigen.

1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xxii. 22/2 The injection of the triple vaccine may be combined with three oral doses of poliomyelitis vaccine.

1982 Times 8 Sept. 1/4 Kate is to have her third triple vaccine against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus today.

C2. The adverb in combination.

a. With past participles or adjectives.

triple-compound adj.

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1897 Daily News 14 June 6/6 Two sets of triple-compound engines, each self-contained.

triple-compounded adj.

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1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 69 A double, or triple-compounded [word].

triple-dyed adj.

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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 Their long strong sarcels, richly triple-died Gold-Azure-Crimsin.

triple-endowed adj.

triple-locked adj.

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1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card xiv. 123 The triple-locked door to his apartment.

triple-quick adv.

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1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust 226 How triple-quick we spirits fly!

triple-refined adj.

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1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 130 A triple-refined taste.

triple-roomed adj.

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1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xxvi. 566 The Arke..had roomes aboue those vpper roomes, and so was called triple-roomed, being three stories high.

triple-turned adj.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xiii. 13 Triple-turn'd Whore, 'tis thou Hast sold me to this Nouice.

triple-twined adj.

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1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia p. xi So shall Bath deem a triple-twin'd Laurel thy Due.

b. With present participles.

triple-barking adj.

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1733 J. Swift On Poetry 14 To Cerberus they give a Sop, His triple-barking Mouth to stop.

triple-flashing adj.

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1903 Daily Chron. 27 Feb. 7/7 A light vessel, say one showing a ten-mile range triple-flashing red light.

c. With verbs, as triple-lock.

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1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxii. 251 I had its big door sheathed with boiler iron..and triple-locked.

1976 B. Bova Multiple Man xvi. 177 The first thing I did was..to make certain I was alone..after triple-locking the front door.

Derivatives

† ˈtriplefold adv. nonce-word Obsolete triply, threefold.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adverb]

treble13..

thricea1400

threefoldc1400

treblefold1532

triplefold1570

triplewise1594

triple1606

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 36/1 To these is gyuen pardon from the Pope, double and triplefold more, then to any other good worke of charitie.

† ˈtriplewise adv. nonce-word Obsolete in a triple manner.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adverb]

treble13..

thricea1400

threefoldc1400

treblefold1532

triplefold1570

triplewise1594

triple1606

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v. i Ganges..Whose wealthy streams may wait upon her [Troy's] towers, And triple-wise entrench her round about.

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triple-drug therapy n. Pharmacology = triple therapy n. at Additions.

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1965 Cancer Chemotherapy Rep. 45 45 (title) Triple drug therapy with Actinomycin D.., Chlorambucil.., and Methotrexate..in metastatic solid tumors in children.

1969 Cancer 24 442 Thirty-four patients with disseminated choriocarcinoma, embryonal cell carcinoma, and teratocarcinoma of the testis were treated with triple drug therapy.

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triple sec n. (also with capital initials) a type of (typically colourless) orange-flavoured liqueur; cf. cointreau n., sec adj.

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1892 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 Nov. 7/4 Cases..Triple Sec.

1963 J. Thompson Grifters x. 67 A sidecar, say, with bourbon instead of brandy... No Triple Sec, please.

2004 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 June 16 The Revolution..is inspired by the Beatles and includes dark rum, triple sec, lime and coke.

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triple therapy n. Pharmacology treatment (esp. of neoplastic disease or infection) with a combination of three drugs.

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1986 Jrnl. Urol. 135 356 The patient responded to antituberculous triple therapy.

1997 Guardian 8 May 1/6 The Aaron Diamond team looked at the blood of patients on a triple therapy of zidovudine or AZT, lamivudine and nelfinavir.

2000 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 1 Jan. 31 Bismuth triple therapy has mainly been surpassed by seven day triple regimens using proton pump inhibitors; these combine omeprazole, lansoprazole, or pantoprazole with two antibiotics.

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triple witching n. Stock Market colloquial (originally U.S.) a trading session during which three types of derivatives contracts expire, typically associated with volatile and unpredictable trading; frequently attributive, esp. (in triple witching hour) designating the final hour of such a trading session; also in extended use.

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1985 N.Y. Times 24 June d5/1 Several days before last Friday's ‘triple witching hour’, many professional stock traders again braced for a wild final 60 minutes in the life of three key market forces: index futures and stock and index options.

1998 J. Rozario in C. W. Smithson Managing Financial Risk (ed. 3) iii. 45 The large price swings that occurred during triple-witching were much anticipated and discussed by the media.

2003 Card News (Electronic ed.) 14 May Visa and MasterCard were facing a litigation triple witching hour as action on three separate antitrust lawsuits escalates in the coming weeks.

2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Mar. 35 Volumes were heavy with 4.5bn shares changing hands and the so-called ‘triple witching’ period—when the FTSE's index futures, index options and share options expire—passed smoothly.

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triple threat n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person who is able to do three different types of work or has three different skills, now esp. a performer who can act, sing, and dance.

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1920 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 25 Oct. He emphasized the need of a so-called ‘triple threat’, a man in the backfield who could skirt the ends, kick and throw forwards with accuracy.

1963 Southwestern Hist. Q. 67 229 He was a triple threat, playing at every position: banker, janitor, and night watchman.

2005 N.Y. Mag. 25 Apr. 36/3 The role demands a great actress, a very skilled dancer, and a strong singer—the storied triple threat.

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triple-X adj. (also triple-x) originally U.S. designating a film (or, in extended use, a publication, website, etc.) of an extremely sexually explicit nature; hardcore, pornographic; (also) of or relating to material of this kind; = XXX adj.Often in triple-X-rated adj. (cf. X-rated at X n. 8). See note at XXX adj.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > pornographic

pornographic1852

pornographical1889

pornograph1893

pornographico-devotional1939

perv1942

porno1952

porny1956

jack-off1967

triple-X1969

XXX1969

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types

costumed1851

foreign language1904

first run1910

Keystone1912

photodramatic1914

serial1915

coming of age1919

edge-of-your-seat1922

psychodramatic1927

omnibus1928

straight1936

low-budget1937

no-budget1937

screwball1937

Ealing1939

blockbusting1943

private eye1946

film noir1952

white telephone1952

portmanteau1953

uncut1953

anthology1955

three-D1955

Hammer1958

noir1958

co-production1959

kitchen sink1959

kidult1960

docudrama1961

cinéma vérité1963

maudit1963

filmi1965

indie1968

triple-X1969

XXX1969

drama-documentary1970

cheapie1973

gross-out1973

high concept1973

chopsocky1974

hard R1974

buddy movie1975

sci-fi1977

mondo1979

hack-and-slash1981

microbudget1981

hack-and-slay1982

slice-and-dice1982

fly on the wall1983

psychotronic1983

noirish1985

Mad Max1986

stoner1987

bonkbusting1993

straight to DVD1997

1969 Congress. Rec. 115 10815/2 Will you be left with ‘triple X’ films and have the cinema labeled ‘censored to the community’?

1977 Fort Madison (Iowa) Democrat 14 Feb. 10/3 She asked for changes in the law to ban triple-x theaters and pornographic book shops.

1999 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. b2/4 [He] all but gets the vapors when speaking of his clients' triple-X-rated magazines and videos.

2007 Daily Star (Nexis) 2 Nov. lw68 Here he was in our bed, rutting away like a triple-X porn star.

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triple-double n. Basketball the achievement of a double-digit total in three of five statistical categories (assists, blocks, points, rebounds, and steals) by a player over the course of a single game; cf. double-double n. 2.

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1980 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. iii. 12/5 Laker Notes... Magic was one rebound shy of a rare triple-double—double figures in points, rebounds and assists. He did that seven times last year.

2012 M. Quick Boy21 (2014) xx. 106 Rod was pretty awesome. I once saw him get a triple double against Pennsville—sixteen assists, eighteen points, ten rebounds.

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单词	triple
释义	triplen. /ˈtrɪp(ə)l/ Forms: see next. Etymology: noun use of triple adj.; compare Old French triple in sense 5 below (c1450 in Godefroy Compl.). 1. a. A triple quantity, sum, or number; thrice as much or many; the product of a number multiplied by three. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [noun] > three times as much triplec1425 treblec1430 triplicity1646 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > result of, product > of specific numbers triplatec1430 triple1557 rectangle?a1560 trigintisextuple1690 c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 30 Of alle þise herbes,..take euen porcion, outtake of wodebynde, of whiche..be taken þe triple or quadriple. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Niii^v Multiplie that triple, by the same quotiente. And set it doune vnder the first triple. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 195 Triple the Root, and multiply this triple by the Root. 1789 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 16 Not only the doubles, but also the triples, and all multiples of the same quantity. 1830 H. Angelo Reminisc. (new ed.) I. 327 To add more than triple to his income. b. A set or series of three; a triad. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [noun] leashc1330 ternarya1464 trinity1542 three?1544 triad1546 trine1554 triplicity1585 ternion1587 pair royal1592 trinary1596 trias1610 gleek1615 triangle1621 triple1653 triumvirate1655 prial1776 trio1777 trefoil1826 trinomy1838 Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred1937 1653 R. Gentilis tr. F. Bacon Nat. & Exper. Hist. Winds 203 This triple of Principles hath been introduced by the Chymists. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 464 The Sins, or Judgments of others may make this Triple of Petitions out of that unparallel'd Paterne. 1966 D. Bennett Stranger in Grave viii. 66 I wanted to..lie naked in an air-conditioned room with a triple of aspirins inside me. 1981 Northeast Woods & Waters Jan. 11/2 We finally settled down and started to pick individual targets and stopped shooting at triples or whole flocks. 2. In technical and elliptical uses. †a. Music. Triple measure or rhythm. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 9 Where it comprehendeth three semibriefes, as in a triple. b. A triple star. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > kind of star > by position > [noun] > treble star treble star1782 triple star1831 triple1890 1890 C. A. Young Uranogr. §32 11 Monocerotis, a fine triple. c. A magic lantern having three optical tubes combined in one. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > magic lantern > types of lucernal microscope1743 megascope1831 oxyhydrogen microscope1839 physioscope1844 aphengescope1869 sciopticon1870 stereopticon1875 anarithmoscope1882 tri-unial1891 triple1892 episcope1909 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 531 Optical lanterns. Single lanterns. Biunials and triples. d. Chemistry. A group of three atoms or ions. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > atomic chemistry > [noun] > atomic groups > types residue1852 substituent1863 fluorophore1898 bridge1901 luminophore1910 triple1952 1952 Jrnl. Chem. Physics 20 685/2 I₁₂₃ is an integral involving a triple of atoms arranged as in the figure. 1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 95/2 (caption) A sodium cation (Na⁺) might attract to its vicinity two independent solvated electrons, forming an ‘ion triple’. e. Horse Racing. = trifecta n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > type of bet swoopstake1599 by-beta1627 levant1714 even money1732 play or pay bet1738 side bet1769 long shot1796 sweep1849 pay-or-play1853 sweepstake1861 pari-mutuel1868 to go a raker1869 flutter1874 skinner1874 by-wager1886 plunge1888 accumulator1889 saver1891 mutuel1893 quinella1902 parlay1904 Sydney or the bush1924 treble1924 daily double1930 all-up1933 round robin1944 double1951 twin double1960 perfecta1961 pool1963 lose bet1964 tiercé1964 Yankee bet1964 Yankee1967 nap1971 superfecta1971 tricast1972 triple1972 trixie1973 telebetting1974 trifecta1974 over-and-under1975 over-under1981 spread bet1981 1972 Britannica Bk. of Year 733/3 Triple, specif., a system of betting on races in which the bettor must pick the first, second, and third horses in this sequence in a specified race in order to win. 1976 N.Y. Times 21 Aug. 22 They had hit on a triple (picking the first three horses in the right order), and it was the young woman's turn to collect. 3. Bell-ringing. A peal rung on seven bells with the tenor, i.e. the eighth, behind; the bells interchanging each time in three sets of two. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes > specific set peal16.. grandsire1668 whole pull1668 bob1671 peal1671 course1677 set changes1677 single1684 single change1688 Plain Bob1702 Stedman1731 Superlative Surprise1788 touch1788 triple1798 triple bob major1809 maximus1813 royal1813 call changes1837 slam1854 cater1872 cinques1872 triple change1872 plain hunt1874 plain hunting1874 quarter peal1888 method1901 short course1904 1798 in Gentleman's Mag. Apr. (1825) 298/2 A full and compleat peal of grandsire tripples, consisting of 5040 changes. 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon iii. 238 A peal of ‘London Union Triples’. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 12/2 A boy of fourteen..took part in ringing 1,260 changes, which constitutes a quarter-peal of Grandsire Triples. †4. = treble n. 7b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > high-pitched instrument triplea1556 treble1634 sopranino1964 a1556 Certaine Songs in N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) sig. I.ij^v The Peale of belles rong by the parish Clerk, and Roister Doisters foure men. The first Bell a Triple. †5. = treble n. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > upper parts treblec1330 quiniblec1390 quatreblea1450 triple1600 triplum1626 superius1653 firsta1774 quintus1883 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. xxiv. 320 The humaine voices sung a triple hie. 6. Baseball. A hit which enables the batter to reach third base. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of hit skyscraper1842 single1851 grass trimmer1867 safe hit1867 roller1871 sacrifice1880 triple1880 two-bagger1880 sacrifice hit1881 pop-up1882 pop fly1884 fungo1887 bunt1889 safety1895 bunting1896 drive1896 hit and run1899 pinch hit1905 Texas leaguer1905 squeeze1908 hopper1914 scratch hit1917 squib1929 line-drive1931 nubber1937 lay-in1951 squeeze bunt1952 comebacker1954 moon shot1961 gapper1970 sacrifice fly1970 sacrifice bunt1974 1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 21 June 8/4 In the fifth Farrell's two-baser, Ward's triple hit, Bradley's triple hit, and Walker's fumbled grounder gave the Champions two earned runs. 1887 Chicago Tribune 3 May 3/1 He made in succession a single, double, triple, and home run. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 July 12/3 Thirteen hurlers appeared. There were ten home runs, seven two~baggers and four triples. 1949 Milwaukie (Oregon) Rev. 4 Aug. 4/4 The hard working first sacker collected his first triple of the year. 1974 Birmingham (Alabama) Post-Herald 29 June a 14/2 With two out, Bill North singled and scored on Campaneris' triple. 7. = treble n. 2j. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > specific quantity of dramc1590 leaguer1712 finger1820 glassful1841 four1869 nip1869 half1888 two1894 snifter1910 treble1968 balloon1973 triple1981 peg2003 1981 W. H. Hallahan Trade v. 153 He poured himself another drink—a triple. 1981 G. Markstein Ultimate Issue 174 Welk poured them all triples. ‘Salut,’ he toasted. Draft additions 1993 7. A motorcycle with a three-cylinder engine. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > with three cylinder engine triple1972 1972 Bike Autumn 32/1 We originally decided to test all three Suzuki triples, but the water cooled 750 was not available. 1976 Cycle World Road Test Ann. 68/2 Kawasaki's awesome 750 Triple is a bike that has outlived its usefulness. 1986 Road Racer Aug.–Sept. 44/2 Next fastest—the bike that won't go away: Honda NS V3s. Hardly changed, the works triple is now little faster than the '86-spec production RS. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021). tripleadj.adv. /ˈtrɪp(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s tryple. ( treeple), 1600s tripill, 1600s–1700s (1800s U.S.) tripple, 1500s– triple. Etymology: < French triple (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), or < Latin triplus, < Greek τριπλοῦς, = Latin triplex threefold. A. adj. 1. Consisting of three members, things, or sets combined; threefold; = treble adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > condition of being threefold > [adjective] thrilec725 threefoldc1000 treblec1374 trinec1386 thrinfalda1400 tripartitec1420 triparted1429 ternaryc1430 trinary1474 triplicate?a1475 trivial?a1475 triplage1526 threefolded1528 triple1552 treblefold1561 trifold1578 trinal1590 tripart1592 ternal1599 triplexa1616 tergeminous1656 ternarious1656 triplasian1678 triplet1697 ternarian1732 triangular1812 Trinitarian1812 triplasic1864 three-body1936 triplexed1974 1552 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 78 One sute of tryple aparrell of whighte satten. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. viii. 233/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The triple tillage of an acre dooth cost 13 shillings foure pence before the saffron be set. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. i. 53 The Philosopher gathers a triple proportion,..the Arithmeticall, the Geometricall, and the Musical. c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) ii. cxxxvii. 1132 There stood ye Monarche of this tripple Isle. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 379 The triple Porter of the Stygian Sound: Grim Cerberus. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 266 A triple thorn beneath the buds. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xxiii. 536 The trireme or war-ship with a triple bank of oars. 1874 H. H. Cole Catal. Objects Indian Art S. Kensington Mus. 127 Triple rows of chains. 2. Having three applications or relations; existing or occurring in three ways or characters; of three kinds; = treble adj. 1b. ΚΠ 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 81^v By triple Hecates holie rites. 1587 in T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) iv. xii. §15. 414 (margin) [There is] a triple vse of fasting. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 From hence there ariseth a triple Word of God,..to which Correspondeth a triple Hearing. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. viii. 173 The Sun..whose triple Influx Motion, Light, and Heat, affecteth all things. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 10 Their choice was triple. 3. Three times as much or many; of three times the measure or amount; multiplied by three. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adjective] thrina1012 threefoldc1175 trebled?c1400 triplatec1430 triplicate?a1475 triplated1486 triple1549 tripled1583 thrice1602 triplicated1635 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Cii If any man do the desire Him to defende in doynge wronge Though he would give the triple hire Yet geue none eare unto his song. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Eiii For .9. is triple to .3: and .12. is triple to .4. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §1. 561 Great conquests are wont to repay the charges of warre with triple interest. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 169 The quantity should not be less than triple the weight of the solids consumed. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 195 The detached figure..shews a part of the top of the wall..to a triple scale. 1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 344 Each pyramid is the third part of the prism, or the prism is triple of the pyramid. †4. That is one of three; third. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [adjective] > that is one of three thirdsomec1425 triplea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 12 You shall see in him (The triple Pillar of the world) transform'd Into a Strumpets Foole. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 107 One [receipt], Which..He bad me store vp, as a triple eye, Safer then mine owne two. View more context for this quotation B. adv. To three times the amount or extent; in a threefold manner; triply; thrice. See also Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adverb] treble13.. thricea1400 threefoldc1400 treblefold1532 triplefold1570 triplewise1594 triple1606 1606 [see triple-formed adj. at Compounds 1a(a)]. 1606 [see triple-dyed adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1641 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) I. Introd. 31 Coining of the Stirling coper monie..could not have been done the ordinare way for triple more charges. 1643 R. Baillie Let. 2 June (1841) II. 71 Triple more already than ever was taught in Scotland. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 12 If we had double or triple as many. 1775 [see triple-compounded adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1804 [see triple-twined adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1824 [see triple-refined adj. at Compounds 2a]. 1897 [see triple-compound adj. at Compounds 2a]. Compounds C1. The adjective in combination. a. Parasynthetic. (a) triple-arched adj. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 95 A casement high and triple-arch'd there was. triple-barbed adj. ΚΠ 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 204 Wounding him on the shoulder with a triple-barbed arrow. triple-barrelled adj. ΚΠ 1934 W. S. Churchill Marlborough II. xxv. 561 Between their squadrons appeared the triple-barrelled guns, which opened a remarkably rapid fire. 1977 Navy News Sept. 2/3 Up, up, and away goes H.M.S. Salisbury's Squid triple-barrelled mortar, the last firing mounting in the Royal Navy. triple-barred adj. ΚΠ 1905 Daily Chron. 22 Sept. 1/7 He is now in a cell triple-barred and double-locked. triple-bolted adj. ΚΠ 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 226 At some sick miser's triple-bolted gate. triple-bearded adj. ΚΠ 1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 201 The triple-bearded Teuton come to life! triple-chorded adj. ΚΠ 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. x. 634 The triple-chorded harmony of faith, holiness, and charity. triple-toothed adj. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fourchier à trois dents, a triple-toothed forke. triple-bodied adj. ΚΠ 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ddi The triple-bodied Pluto. triple-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 140 Triple-coloured tortoises. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 897 When he brings Over the Earth a Cloud, [God] will therein set His triple-colour'd Bow. View more context for this quotation triple-crested adj. ΚΠ 1717 E. Fenton tr. Homer Odyssey xi, in Poems 126 To drag to light the triple-crested Dog That guards Hell's massy Portal. triple-crowned adj. ΚΠ 1679 W. Bedloe Narr. Horrid Popish Plot Epist. sig. A^v Their Tripple Crown'd Idol at Rome. triple-edged adj. ΚΠ 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 21 A triple-edged spear or sword. triple-formed adj. ΚΠ 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 66 A great Cornaline, Where some rare Artist..Hath deeply cut Times triple-formed Front. triple-gemmed adj. triple-hatted adj. ΚΠ 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 218 A black spectral Nightmare and triple-hatted Chimera. triple-hummocked adj. ΚΠ 1876 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 64 The triple-hummocked Giant's Stool. triple-lived adj. ΚΠ 1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 118. ⁋1 To deal with them as Evander did with his triple-lived Adversary. triple mirrored adj. ΚΠ 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep vii. 45 There was perfume on the triple-mirrored dressing table. 1970 R. Rendell Guilty Thing Surprised iii. 38 Between the two mirrors stood a triple-mirrored dressing table. triple-nerved adj. ΚΠ 1805 tr. K. L. Willdenow Princ. Bot. & Veg. Physiol. 34 A leaf is said to be..Triple-nerved, (triplinervium), when out of the side of the middle rib above the base there arises a nerve running towards the point. triple-piled adj. ΚΠ 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xx. 57 On triple-piled Throne-velvets, shall we see him bless the poor. triple-rayed adj. ΚΠ 1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 124 Our Saviour is represented..distinguished by the triple-rayed nimbus. triple-ribbed adj. ΚΠ 1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 47 Root-leaves crowded..petals rounded, triple-ribbed. triple-stranded adj. ΚΠ 1906 Daily News 4 Sept. 6 The construction of the triple-aisled nave [of Strassburg Cathedral]. triple-throated adj. ΚΠ 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iv. 59 The Dog, whose triple throated noyse, Hath rowzd a Lyon from his vncouth den. triple-tiered adj. ΚΠ 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 267 Flames, triple tier'd, and tides of smoke, arise, And fulminations rock the seas and skies. 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) ii. 23 A balcony overlooking the Outer City gave a view of the distant, triple-tiered, blue-glazed round roofs of the Temple of Heaven. 1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha i. 11 He..went to his triple-tiered pipe rack. triple-towered adj. ΚΠ c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. at Triple Triple-towered, gate, double-leaved. triple-turreted adj. ΚΠ a1550 in S. Baring-Gould & R. Twigge Armory Western Counties (1898) 3 Barnestaple Towne: Arg: a triple turreted tower gul: betweene 3 ogresses. (b) Also triple-headed adj. triple-awned adj. in triple-awned grass, = three-awned adj. at three adj. and n. Compounds 3b. triple-spaced adj. typed or formatted so that two blank lines separate adjacent lines of text; also as quasi-adv.; (see triple adj. and adv. above). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [adjective] > with two blank lines between lines of text triple-spaced1946 1946 R. Chandler Let. 6 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 80 The silly little triple-spaced half pages I type on. 1966 F. Stewart Deadly Nightcap iii. 40 There were margins of twenty degrees on either side of the typescript, and it was triple-spaced. 1978 M. H. Clark Stranger is Watching xix. 81 I typed them triple-spaced. b. In combination with nouns, forming adjectives or attributive phrases. (a) triple-action adj. ΚΠ 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 725/2 A triple-action die, when in operation, has a movement, produced by springs or a triple-action press, of two punches, two matrices, or a punch and a matrix, within either the upper or lower half of the die. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. (Suppl.) 11/1 From Steiner comes news of two brand new hair aids. The first is Pearl Foam, a triple-action shampoo which cleanses, adds lustre and protects the hair from the weather. 1974 M. Taylor tr. C. Metz Film Lang. ix. 233 This triple-action construction gives the ending of the film..its true meaning. triple-compartment adj. ΚΠ 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 293 The main working shaft, which is tripple compartment. triple-cylinder adj. ΚΠ a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2628/2 Triple-cylinder engine, a steam-engine employing three cylinders. triple-digit adj. ΚΠ 1976 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. iii. 15/6 The foot-dragging is caused by Argentina's triple-digit inflation. 1979 Time 28 May 12 The cost of living for April had jumped a shocking 8·7%, more than 100% if projected over the entire year. The admission provoked howls of alarm that the country could be heading toward uncontrollable triple-digit inflation. triple-expansion adj. (see expansion n. 7). ΚΠ 1882 Engineering 12 May 474/1 I may mention that within the last few weeks there has been a steamer completed to work at a pressure of 150 lb. per square inch with triple expansion engines very similar to those fitted in the Aberdeen. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Sept. 13/2 These steamers..are provided with triple expansion engines. triple-extension adj. ΚΠ 1893 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 17 The ‘triple-extension’ type [of camera]. triple-hearth adj. ΚΠ 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 339 The Bennett Mill carries ten stamps, six triple-hearth reverberatory roasting-furnaces [etc.]. triple-line adj. ΚΠ 1889 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines (new ed.) 220 The Greys filed off in a triple-line formation. triple-lock adj. ΚΠ 1895 Daily News 14 Mar. 5/5 The ticket will be dropped in a triple-lock box. triple-rack adj. ΚΠ 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 545 Large size (patent) triple-rack telescopic front tubes. triple-shift adj. triple-threat adj. ΚΠ 1939 W. H. Baumer Sports as taught & played at West Point 40 Any backs who possess the three qualifications of being a good runner, passer and kicker to a marked degree are triple-threat men. 1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 67 Football no longer requires the triple threat back—the player who can run and kick as well as punt. triple-wick adj. ΚΠ 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. Advt. Triple Wick Lamps,..Four Wick Lamps. (b) triple-screw adj. having three screw-propellers. ΚΠ 1901 Daily Mail 30 Oct. 5/3 A series of six triple-screw 14,865 ton battleships. c. triple agent n. = treble agent n. at treble adj. and adv. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > a secret observer, spy > secret agent > serving more than one master double agent1935 treble agent1967 triple agent1968 1968 J. Wainwright Web of Silence 94 Jackson figures he's created a double-agent. We don't agree. The way we see it, Schneller's maybe a triple-agent. 1982 T. Heald Masterstroke viii. 159 Something in Intelligence. Our Intelligence. Theirs too... A triple agent at least. triple alliance n. an alliance of three states, powers, or organizations, spec. (usually with capital initials) (a) that of England, Sweden, and the Netherlands in 1668; (b) that of France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands in 1717; (c) that of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in 1882; (d) that of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the National Union of Railwaymen, and the National Transport Workers' Federation in 1914.The Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy lasted until the outbreak of the First World War war in 1914; cf. Central Powers n. at central adj. Compounds. Great Britain, France, and Russia responded with the Triple Entente (cf. triple entente n.).Occasionally in extended use: see quot. a1933. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > alliance of trade unions triple alliance1645 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > of three states triple alliance1645 Central Powers1882 1645 S. Goffe Let. 2 May in Ld. George Digby's Cabinet (1646) 24 There is more substance in this triple alliance [i.e. of Holland, France, and the Royalists], if it may be gotten, then in any other councell in the world. 1668 W. Temple Lett. (1699) xv. 56 Monsieur de Witt: Who, he said, hindred them from being received into the Triple-Alliance. 1716 J. Addison Drummer v. 46 But here comes the Triple-Alliance [sc. three Rogues]. 1718 Hist. Reg. 1717 No. 9 28 The Alliance concluded between the Emperor and his Britannick Majesty, the Triple Alliance between Great Britain, France, and Holland. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 528 This design..gave rise to the Triple alliance..to support the treaty of Utrecht. 1883 Leeds Mercury 12 Mar. 5/4 The speaker urged that England should be added to the triple alliance, because Italy would thereby secure in Egypt..a position equal with other Powers. 1902 Rep. Proc. Amer. Federation Labor 105 The formation of the triple alliance made at the city of Philadelphia, Pa., in the year 1895, between the International Typographical Union, the International Printing Pressmen and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. 1914 Times 19 June 9/2 The great triple alliance of miners', railwaymen's, and transport workers' unions discussed yesterday at the meeting of the National Union of Railwaymen. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 779 Sometimes there is a triple alliance. Thus gall-midges that attack flowers of mulleins, scrophularias, and capers provoke galls inside which an ambrosia fungus (q.v.) flourishes. 1991 K. Laybourn Brit. Trade Unionism 107 The Triple Alliance was called to operate for the first time in 1921. 1993 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 31 July 47 The triple alliance between Glaxo Holdings PLC, Warner-Lambert Co. and Wellcome PLC announced this week is striking evidence of an industry under pressure. 2004 P. A. Weitsman Dangerous Alliances v. 105 A final, crucial catalyst that compelled Russia to balance was the renewal of the Triple Alliance. triple bob major n. apparently an error for treble bob major: see bob n.⁵ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes > specific set peal16.. grandsire1668 whole pull1668 bob1671 peal1671 course1677 set changes1677 single1684 single change1688 Plain Bob1702 Stedman1731 Superlative Surprise1788 touch1788 triple1798 triple bob major1809 maximus1813 royal1813 call changes1837 slam1854 cater1872 cinques1872 triple change1872 plain hunt1874 plain hunting1874 quarter peal1888 method1901 short course1904 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. ii. ii. 79 The bells..rung a triple bob-major on the joyful occasion. a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 200 The blithe ‘College Youths’..Accustom'd, for years, to pull bell-ropes for wagers—Rang, faster than ever, their ‘triple-bob-majors’. triple bond n. [bond n.¹ 13e] Chemistry a bond in which the two atoms ‘share’ three pairs of electrons rather than one pair; hence as adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical bonding > [adjective] > of or relating to covalent bonding > of or relating to a triple bond triple bond1889 1889 G. M'Gowan tr. A. Bernthsen Text-bk. Org. Chem. i. 55 The constitutional formula for acetylene, C₂H₂, is assumed to be CHCH, according to which the carbon atoms are joined together by a triple bond. 1971 Nature 10 Dec. 333/2 The CO molecule has a very stable triple bond which is difficult to dissociate. triple-bonded adj. ΚΠ 1937 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 59 2091/2 The carbon-oxygen bond [in BH₃CO] presumably involves resonance between double- and triple-bonded structures. 1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. xiii. 484 In the most extreme cases there is some reason for saying that oxygen is triple-bonded. triple change n. Bell-ringing one in which three pairs of bells change places. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes > specific set peal16.. grandsire1668 whole pull1668 bob1671 peal1671 course1677 set changes1677 single1684 single change1688 Plain Bob1702 Stedman1731 Superlative Surprise1788 touch1788 triple1798 triple bob major1809 maximus1813 royal1813 call changes1837 slam1854 cater1872 cinques1872 triple change1872 plain hunt1874 plain hunting1874 quarter peal1888 method1901 short course1904 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon iii. 232 After 1677..Stedman..appears to have introduced the method of double and triple changes. triple concerto n. a concerto with three solo parts. ΚΠ 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 389/1 Sometimes concertos are written for more than one solo instrument, and are then known as double, triple, etc., concertos as the case may be. 1932 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 8/3 In March a triple concerto for flute, clarinet, bassoon and orchestra by J. R. Heath will be introduced. 1985 Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 9 The London Sinfonietta..had played the Triple Concerto on the first night of the Tippett birthday celebration week. triple counterpoint n. three-part counterpoint in which the parts may be interchanged without breaking the rules. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > counterpoint counterpoint1597 contrapunct1694 polyphony1790 polyphonism1864 triple counterpoint1869 polyphone1875 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xvii. 134 Triple and quadruple counterpoints..consist of three or four melodies so interwoven that any of them may become a correct bass to the others. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 439/2 Triple counterpoint, a counterpoint in three parts, so contrived that each part will serve for bass, middle, or upper part as required. triple cross n. the act of betraying one party in a transaction by pretending to betray the other, or of betraying a person who has betrayed another. ΚΠ 1971 J. Aiken Nightly Deadshade vii. 76 I..resolve to set a few subliminal tests for my fellow-conspirators..in case they are working the triple-cross. 1978 Times 25 Jan. 11/5 Anthony Price is a master of the double (or even triple) cross. triple-crossing adj. ΚΠ 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xix. 236 ‘Kind of double-crossing.’ ‘It ain't. It's triple-crossing. It's the public that gets double-crossed.’ triple crown n. a threefold crown; spec. (a) the papal tiara; also, a heraldic bearing representing this = tiara n. 2b; (b) in horse racing, the winning of the three races known as the ‘Two Thousand Guineas’, the ‘Derby’, and the ‘St. Leger’ (also attributive); (c) also applied to several other instances of winning three victories in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, and, in Rugby Union and hockey, the winning by England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales of victory over each of the other three in the same season. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > tiara triple crown1555 tiar1616 tiaraa1660 triple hat1841 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [noun] > crowns and coronets triple crown1555 coronet1709 radiate crown1752 tiara1780 Venice crownc1828 society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > set or series, considered as an achievement triple crown1897 slam1934 grand slam1948 treble1959 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > winning three races triple crown1897 treble1924 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > winning three internationals triple crown1899 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > three international wins triple crown1953 1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 226^v A triple crowne much lyke the popes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 66. 1624 W. Bedel Copies Certaine Lett. iv. 78 In one scutchion with the crosse Keyes and triple crown in the crest. 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Tiara, or Triple Crown, with clouds in base issuing rays, being part of the arms of the Drapers' Company. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) viii. 272 The triple crown of the papacy. 1894 Parker's Gloss. Her. Tiara, the pope's triple crown occurs in the arms of one Company. 1897 Daily News 7 Sept. 5/1 What the sporting prophets love to call the ‘triple crown’,..the Two Thousand, the Derby, and the St. Leger. 1899 Whitaker's Almanack 648/2 In their last match at Cardiff against Wales, Ireland won by a try to nothing, securing the triple crown with three straight victories as in 1894. 1901 Daily Chron. 20 July 9/1 The triple-crown winner stood a sound 6 to 4 on chance. 1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 413 Race horses which win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont are said to win the Triple Crown. 1953 Times 10 Apr. 4/5 A victory for England [over Scotland at hockey] will mean that the meeting of Ireland and England in Dublin on April 18 will be a fight for the triple crown. 1974 Sunday Tel. 7 Apr. 36/7 Hockey history was made on the Cardiff University ground at Llanrumney where Wales won the Championship and took the Triple Crown for the first time since the quadrangular tourney began in 1903. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 6/4 She may never win a Triple Crown race herself—no woman ever has—but she says she'll ‘definitely ride again; it's in my blood’. 1978 World of Tennis (BP Yearbk.) 179 The Virginia Slims Championship is the first event in the Triple Crown (Wimbledon and Forest Hills are the others) which has replaced the Grand Slam at the pinnacle of achievement in women's tennis. 1979 M. Boyce I was There! 47/2 Twelve..the number of times Wales have won the Triple Crown. 1979 Harvard Gaz. 23 Feb. 2 Zoo Captain Bill Renke is the only person to have won the tiddlywinks Triple Crown—the Singles, Pairs, and Team Championships. triple entente n. an informal alliance of three states or powers, spec. (usually with capital initials) that of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which formed the basis of the Allied powers in the First World War (1914–18).The Triple Entente between Great Britain, France, and Russia developed from the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894 (formed to counterbalance the threat posed by the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy; cf. triple alliance n. (c)), the Anglo-French Entente of 1904, and the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. Cf. entente cordiale n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > entente entente cordiale1844 entente1854 triple entente1886 1886 Standard 11 Aug. 5/3 The late Conferences at Gastein have resulted in removing the differences recently existing between Russia and the Austro-German Allies, and..the former Triple entente will most likely be shortly re-established. 1894 Speaker 22 Dec. 676/2 France and Russia had already been leagued by a bond something stronger than that of a mere entente. The proper completion of these rapprochements would be the establishment of an understanding between England and France, and the formation, if not of a new Triple Alliance, at least of a Triple Entente. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IX. 949/1 (heading) The Triple entente and the Triple Alliance. 1914 Times 5 Aug. 7/4 First came the Franco-Russian Alliance, and later on the Anglo-French, and the Anglo-Russian agreements, which paved the way for the diplomatic group known as the Triple Entente. 1954 G. L. Weinberg Germany & Soviet Union ii. 22 The possibilities for holding off a new Triple Entente had to be explored. 1998 Times 30 Nov. 11/2 Herr Schröder has talked of a triple entente between Paris, Bonn and London. 2004 Harvard Ukrainian Stud. 27 151 When the First World War broke out in August 1914 between the Triple Entente and the Central Powers [etc.]. Categories » triple first n. at Cambridge University, a first class in three triposes; also, one who obtains this. triple fugue n. Music a fugue having three subjects. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > fugue > type of in nomine1565 ricercatac1715 ricercare1773 fugato1876 fughetta1876 triple fugue1876 double fugue1880 tiento1905 mirror fugue1931 clausula1944 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 180/1 Fugues have been divided..By number of subjects; as a double fugue, having two subjects; a triple fugue, three subjects, &c. triple gown n. see quot. ΚΠ 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 720/2 The double or triple gowns (the Judges with the double and triple salaries). † triple grass n. Obsolete the genus Trifolium. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil white clovereOE cloverc1000 hare-foota1300 clerewort?a1400 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. trefoilc1400 sucklingc1440 four-leaved grassc1450 trefle1510 Trifolium?1541 trinity grass1545 Dutch1548 lote1548 hare's-foot1562 lotus1562 triple grass1562 blain-grass1570 meadow trefoil1578 purple grass1597 purplewort1597 satin flower1597 cithyse1620 true-love grass?a1629 garden balsam1633 hop-clover1679 Burgundian hay1712 strawberry trefoil1731 honeysuckle trefoil1735 red clover1764 buffalo-clover1767 marl-grass1776 purple trefoil1785 white trefoil1785 yellow trefoil1785 sulla1787 cow-grass1789 strawberry-bearing trefoil1796 zigzag trefoil1796 rabbit's foot1817 lotus grass1820 strawberry-headed trefoil1822 mountain liquorice1836 hop-trefoil1855 clustered clover1858 alsike1881 mountain clover1882 knop1897 Swedish clover1908 sub clover1920 four-leaf clover1927 suckle- 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 33, in Bulwarke of Defence Trifolium, called the three leaued grasse. [Margin] Triple grasse. triple hat n. the papal tiara. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > tiara triple crown1555 tiar1616 tiaraa1660 triple hat1841 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 217 You with your tiaras, triple-hats,..stand on the Devil's Lie, and are not so strong! triple jump n. an athletic long jump event, also known as the hop, step, and jump (cf. hop n.² 3a). Π 1964 M. Watman Encycl. Athletics 150/1 Basically, the rules for the triple jump (formerly known as the hop, step and jump) are identical with those governing the long jump. 1972 N.Y. Times 4 June 4/7 The runner-up in the voting was John Craft, who set an American triple-jump record of 55-5. triple junction n. Geology a region at which the boundaries of three lithospheric plates meet; (Geology), a point where three grain boundaries meet at angles of approximately 120 degrees. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > lithospheric plate > junction triple junction1969 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [noun] > texture > meeting of grain boundaries triple junction1969 1969 Nature 11 Oct. 125/2 Evolution of such triple junctions can produce many of the changes which would otherwise appear to have been caused by a change in the direction or magnitude of the relative motion between plates. 1976 R. H. Vernon Metamorphic Processes v. 137 Three grains meet at a point (‘triple junction’), the inter~facial angles closely approximating 120°. 1979 B. F. Mallory & D. N. Cargo Physical Geol. xvii. 437 Examination of these triple junctions shows that the three branches of the junction may involve convergence, divergence, or translational (sideways) movement. 1982 S. Aramaki & T. Ui in R. S. Thorpe Andesites iii. 260/1 Japan and the surrounding islands form three chains of island arcs which meet at a trench-trench-type triple junction located at c. 34° N and 142° E. † triple Lady's traces n. Obsolete a species of orchid with three tubers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > helleborine or lady's tresses lady's traces1548 orchis1578 sweet orchis1578 butterfly orchis1597 triple Lady's traces1611 goodyera1813 lady's tresses1820 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Satyrion à trois couillons, Triple Orchis, or triple Ladies traces. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvii. 421 The Spiral Ophrys, commonly called Triple Ladies Traces. triple line n. Geometry a line, plane, or point formed by the coincidence of three lines, planes, or points. ΚΠ 1901 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1896–1901 30 624 Four real tangent planes can be drawn to the focal surface through the triple line. triple mirror n. = three-way mirror at three-way adj. a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > other mirrors perspective glass1570 side mirror1769 index-glass1773 Claude Lorraine glass1792 anamorphoscopea1884 magnetic mirror1884 ox-eye1890 busybody1892 rear mirror1896 triple mirror1907 three-way mirror1964 two-way mirror1967 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 110/2 Triple folding mirrors..Size of glass, 9 by 9 in.—20/3. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xiv. 164 A real dressing-table with a triple mirror. 1967 ‘K. O'Hara’ Unknown Man iv. 29 She adjusted the triple mirror and took up the eye~liner. triple phosphate n. Chemistry phosphate of ammonium and magnesium. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > phosphates or phosphites > specific named microcosmic salt1770 superphosphate1798 oxyphosphate1815 hypophosphite1818 thorina1818 tri-phosphate1823 bone phosphate1834 phosphate1849 triple phosphate1857 hypophosphate1864 trimethyl-phosphine1866 hexametaphosphate1891 trimetaphosphate1894 triose phosphate1934 1857 E. L. Birkett Bird's Urinary Deposits (ed. 5) 276 The triple phosphate which is precipitated artificially from urine..is a neutral salt. 1890 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch Clin. Diagnosis vii. 276 It [urine] deposits on standing a more or less abundant deposit of fat-laden and swollen leucocytes and triple-phosphate crystals. triple pit n. Mining a shaft divided into three compartments lengthwise: see quot. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine work1474 firework1606 stemple1653 stool1653 bink1675 engine pit1687 swamp1691 feeder1702 wall1728 bag1742 sill1747 stope1747 rose cistern1778 striking-house1824 plat1828 stemplar1828 screen chamber1829 offtake1835 footwall1837 triple pit1839 stamp1849 paddock1852 working floor1858 pit house1866 ground-sluice1869 screen tower1871 planilla1877 undercurrent1877 mill1878 blanket-sluice1881 stringing-deal1881 wagon-breast1881 brushing-bed1883 poppet-leg1890 slippet1898 stable1906 overcut1940 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 970 A shaft is to be divided into three compartments, one for the engine pumps, and two for raising coals,..which is denominated a triple pit. triple plane n. see triple line n. triple play n. in baseball, play in which three men are put out. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of play triple play1869 squeeze play1905 safety squeeze1922 small ball1986 1869 De Witt's Official Base Ball Guide 42 Remarks concerning double and triple plays will apply to the third baseman as much as to either of the other base-players. 1896 R. G. Knowles & M. Morton Baseball 103 Triple play, a play in which the ball is handled quickly enough to retire three men. triple point n. (a) (Geometry), a point common to three branches of a curve, or at which the curve has three tangents: see triple line n.; (b) (Physics), the temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid, and vapour phases of a pure substance can coexist in equilibrium; the point representing this state in a phase diagram (marked by the junction of three lines); more widely, an analogous state or point for any three phases of a substance; (c) (Geology), an invariant point involving three phases, e.g. where kyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite are stable in the system Al₂ SiO₅. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > on a curve first polar1836 umbilic1843 spinode1852 stationary point1856 ineunt1859 triple point1872 tacnode-cusp1873 the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > phases > [noun] > phase transitions > points triple point1872 isosbestic point1925 1872 J. Thomson in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1871 ii. 32 We must suppose three curves (namely, the line between gas and liquid, the line between liquid and solid, and the line between gas and solid) to meet in one point... This point of pressure and temperature for any substance may then be called the triple point for that substance. 1873 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (ed. 2) xiv. §209 If the lowest terms in the equation of a curve be of the third degree, the origin is a triple point. 1879 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 731/2 At this point the steam line, ice line, and hoar-frost line intersect, and it has therefore been called the triple point. 1955 Sci. Amer. Mar. 52/3 In another change, the absolute temperature scale was redefined in terms of a single fixed reference point—the triple point of water. 1964 J. H. Brophy et al. Thermodynamics of Struct. ii. 20 If the specified temperature and pressure are the coordinates of point D, all three phases coexist in equilibrium with one another. Point D is called the triple point. 1966 Units & Standards of Measurem.: Temperature (Nat. Physical Lab.) (ed. 2) 18 Changes made in 1960 to the text of the International Temperature Scale of 1948... The triple-point of water was given formal status as one of the defining fixed points of the scale... Its value was given as 0·01°C (Int. 1948) and the ice point appeared among the secondary fixed points with the value 0·000°C. 1978 Nature 14 Dec. 696/2 One possible reason..is that a solid–solid–liquid triple point could exist near 10⁷ Pa..in the proposed phase diagram [of carbon]. 1979 K. G. Cox et al. Interpretation of Igneous Rocks iii. 47 Figure 3.1 shows a one-component phase diagram for a substance such as H₂O. It consists of three fields in each of which a single phase exists. Each pair of fields meets in a curve along which two phases co-exist, and the three fields meet in a point U (so-called triple point) at which all three phases co-exist. 1983 D. S. Barker Igneous Rocks iii. 28 The ‘triple point’ where liquid, vapor, and solid coexist in equilibrium has yet to be experimentally located for any silicate. † triple progression n. Music Obsolete see quot. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > specific report1502 augmentationc1570 diminution1597 consecution1655 inversion1664 imitation1728 sequence1737 oblique motion1786 Rosalia1786 triple progression1786 parallel motion1864 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Triple Progression, an expression in old music, implying a series of perfect fifths. † triple proportion n. Obsolete = triple ratio n. ΚΠ 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Ci Proportion..Doble, Triple, Quadriple. 1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 180 (note) 12 compared to 4 is Multiple Proportion, and named triple. triple quartan n. (also triple quartan ague) a quartan ague in which the paroxysms occur in sets of three. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration tertian1362 quartana1387 quotidiana1398 ephemera1398 quarterna1568 day-fever1601 nonan1601 quintan1601 septimane1601 sextan1601 semitertian1609 triple quartan1625 diary1640 septan1657 third ague1674 quartanary1684 subintrant1684 intermittent1693 nonary1747 seven day fever1788 octan1799 third-day ague1818 type-fever1819 triple tertian1822 triplicate quartan (ague)1822 tetartophyia1842 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. v. 79 I went to a Canon who lay sicke of a triple Quartane ague. triple ratio n. the ratio of three to one. Categories » triple rhythm n. Music a threefold rhythm consisting of one heavy and two light accents or beats. triple rime n. (also triple rhyme) see rhyme n. 1c (but in quot. 1872 = terza rima n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > terza rima triple rime1727 terza rima1819 third rhyme1820 triple (also treble) rhyme1869 tierce rhyme1877 1727–38 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rhyme Rhymes are either single, or double, or triple... Single Rhymes are divided into perfect or whole rhymes, and imperfect or half rhymes. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 233/2 Such words as roaring, de-ploring, form double rhimes; and an-nuity, gra-tuity, triple rhimes. 1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 158 In the form of the verse (triple rhyme) we may find an emblem of the Trinity. triple salt n. Chemistry a salt containing three different bases. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > specific types perfixed salt1601 triple salt1800 persalt1822 bisalt1823 oxy-salt1833 sesquisalt1839 potash1843 Mohr's salt1905 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 248 When the quantity of ammonia corresponds with that of the nitrate of magnesia necessary to form a triple salt, the precipitation is then checked. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 886 Triple salts, a name sometimes applied to salts containing three different bases, such as microcosmic salt. triple screw n. a screw having three consecutive threads of the same pitch ( Cent. Dict. 1891). ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Triple screw. triple spacing n. the spacing of typewritten or other text so that two blank lines separate adjacent lines of text (see triple-spaced adj. at Compounds 1a(b) below). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > spacing between lines single-spacing1956 triple spacing1957 1957 A. C. Lloyd et al. Gregg Typewriting for Colleges 2/1 In triple spacing, typing appears on every third line with 2 blank lines between the typed ones. 1978 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Dec. 1724/3 Typing should be on one side of the paper, with double or triple spacing between the lines. triple star n. a treble star (see treble adj. and adv. Compounds 1d). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > kind of star > by position > [noun] > treble star treble star1782 triple star1831 triple1890 1831 Encycl. Brit. IV. 47/1 M. Struve has also taken notice of 52 triple stars. triple suspension n. Music see quot. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > suspension, anticipation, etc. resolution1721 preparation1728 postposition1730 retardation1730 suspense1737 suspension1786 anticipation1819 triple suspension1876 percussion1880 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 412/2 Two suspended notes form a double suspension; three a triple suspension, and so on. triple tail n. a fish, Lobotes surinamensis, in which the dorsal and anal fins are extended so as to resemble tails. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Lobotidae (triple tail) triple tail1803 grouper1884 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 80 The tail..appears as if composed of three distinct parts,..hence the name of Triurus, or Triple-Tail, applied to this fish by Commerson. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 148 The ‘Flasher’ or ‘Triple-tail’..is spoken of by various authors as the ‘Black Triple-tail’. triple tertian n. (also triple tertian ague) cf. triple quartan n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > fever of specific duration tertian1362 quartana1387 quotidiana1398 ephemera1398 quarterna1568 day-fever1601 nonan1601 quintan1601 septimane1601 sextan1601 semitertian1609 triple quartan1625 diary1640 septan1657 third ague1674 quartanary1684 subintrant1684 intermittent1693 nonary1747 seven day fever1788 octan1799 third-day ague1818 type-fever1819 triple tertian1822 triplicate quartan (ague)1822 tetartophyia1842 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 99 The fifth species [of ague]..consisting of double tertians, triple tertians, unequal tertians, duplicate tertians. triple time n. Music a rhythm of three beats in the bar (transferred in prosody); also compound triple time (see compound adj. 2f). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > specific rhythms triplac1550 semibreve time1591 common measure1597 common time1597 nonupla1597 triple1597 binary measure1609 triple time1654 treble time1686 ternary measure or time1728 alla breve1731 ribattuta1740 four-four time1826 compound time1848 dotted rhythm1872 six-eight tempo1873 six-four1873 six-eight time1884 six-four time1884 six-two time1884 twelve-eight1884 slow drag1901 two-rhythm1901 three-four1902 sprung rhythm1944 songo1978 one-drop1979 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > types of rhythm beat-rhythmc1873–4 triple time1880 counter-rhythm1927 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 15 One being called Triple Time, the other the duple, or common Time. 1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 74 If..we banish our slow Tunes, and sing only Triple-Time Tunes to pure Iambic Measure. 1880 G. M. Hopkins Let. 5 Sept. (1935) 107 So far as I know triple time is in English verse a shy and late thing. 1889 F. Taylor in G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 174/1 When a bar of triple time consists of two notes only the accent is always on the longer note. triple-tongue v. [as a back-formation] (intransitive) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > tongue tongue1936 triple-tongue1951 1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. i. 7 He triple-tongued up the scale to high C. 1967 Crescendo Feb. 23/3 The band stopped for several bars, and Charles triple-tongued—at breakneck tempo—and never faltered or slowed down once. triple tonguing n. the use of the tongue to achieve rapid articulation in groups of three notes on the flute and brass instruments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > tonguing triple tonguing1879 tonguing1880 flutter1926 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 459/2 Triple tongueing is also possible. 1951 W. Morum Gabriel ii. vi. 211 You could rattle out triple-tonguing stuff when you was a kid. 1961 C. W. Monk in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xi. 280 Rapid passages are managed by alternating ‘t’ and ‘k’ in ‘double-tonguing’ and fast triplets by ‘triple tonguing’ ‘ttk’ (or ‘tkt, ktk’). triple unite n. see unite n. triple vaccine n. Medicine (a) a vaccine containing three species of the Salmonella bacteria, used as a prophylactic against typhoid and paratyphoid; (b) a vaccine containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and the killed whooping cough organism, administered in early childhood as a prophylactic against conditions caused by these. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [noun] > other vaccines retro-vaccine1841 triple vaccine1917 Salk vaccine1954 1917 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 22 Sept. 100/2 The reaction following the inoculation of the triple vaccine was no different than when the typhoid vaccine was alone used. 1947 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1 327 A reinvestigation of the antigenicity of the strains routinely used for the preparation of typhoid and ‘triple’ vaccine..resulted in the introduction of strains rich in somatic antigen. 1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xxii. 22/2 The injection of the triple vaccine may be combined with three oral doses of poliomyelitis vaccine. 1982 Times 8 Sept. 1/4 Kate is to have her third triple vaccine against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus today. C2. The adverb in combination. a. With past participles or adjectives. triple-compound adj. ΚΠ 1897 Daily News 14 June 6/6 Two sets of triple-compound engines, each self-contained. triple-compounded adj. ΚΠ 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 69 A double, or triple-compounded [word]. triple-dyed adj. ΚΠ 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 61 Their long strong sarcels, richly triple-died Gold-Azure-Crimsin. triple-endowed adj. triple-locked adj. ΚΠ 1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card xiv. 123 The triple-locked door to his apartment. triple-quick adv. ΚΠ 1951 L. MacNeice tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust 226 How triple-quick we spirits fly! triple-refined adj. ΚΠ 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 130 A triple-refined taste. triple-roomed adj. ΚΠ 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xxvi. 566 The Arke..had roomes aboue those vpper roomes, and so was called triple-roomed, being three stories high. triple-turned adj. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xiii. 13 Triple-turn'd Whore, 'tis thou Hast sold me to this Nouice. View more context for this quotation triple-twined adj. ΚΠ 1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia p. xi So shall Bath deem a triple-twin'd Laurel thy Due. b. With present participles. triple-barking adj. ΚΠ 1733 J. Swift On Poetry 14 To Cerberus they give a Sop, His triple-barking Mouth to stop. triple-flashing adj. ΚΠ 1903 Daily Chron. 27 Feb. 7/7 A light vessel, say one showing a ten-mile range triple-flashing red light. c. With verbs, as triple-lock. ΚΠ 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxii. 251 I had its big door sheathed with boiler iron..and triple-locked. 1976 B. Bova Multiple Man xvi. 177 The first thing I did was..to make certain I was alone..after triple-locking the front door. Derivatives † ˈtriplefold adv. nonce-word Obsolete triply, threefold. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adverb] treble13.. thricea1400 threefoldc1400 treblefold1532 triplefold1570 triplewise1594 triple1606 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 36/1 To these is gyuen pardon from the Pope, double and triplefold more, then to any other good worke of charitie. † ˈtriplewise adv. nonce-word Obsolete in a triple manner. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > [adverb] treble13.. thricea1400 threefoldc1400 treblefold1532 triplefold1570 triplewise1594 triple1606 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v. i Ganges..Whose wealthy streams may wait upon her [Troy's] towers, And triple-wise entrench her round about. Draft additions August 2001 triple-drug therapy n. Pharmacology = triple therapy n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1965 Cancer Chemotherapy Rep. 45 45 (title) Triple drug therapy with Actinomycin D.., Chlorambucil.., and Methotrexate..in metastatic solid tumors in children. 1969 Cancer 24 442 Thirty-four patients with disseminated choriocarcinoma, embryonal cell carcinoma, and teratocarcinoma of the testis were treated with triple drug therapy. Draft additions December 2006 triple sec n. (also with capital initials) a type of (typically colourless) orange-flavoured liqueur; cf. cointreau n., sec adj. ΚΠ 1892 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 Nov. 7/4 Cases..Triple Sec. 1963 J. Thompson Grifters x. 67 A sidecar, say, with bourbon instead of brandy... No Triple Sec, please. 2004 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 4 June 16 The Revolution..is inspired by the Beatles and includes dark rum, triple sec, lime and coke. Draft additions August 2001 triple therapy n. Pharmacology treatment (esp. of neoplastic disease or infection) with a combination of three drugs. ΚΠ 1986 Jrnl. Urol. 135 356 The patient responded to antituberculous triple therapy. 1997 Guardian 8 May 1/6 The Aaron Diamond team looked at the blood of patients on a triple therapy of zidovudine or AZT, lamivudine and nelfinavir. 2000 Brit. Med. Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 1 Jan. 31 Bismuth triple therapy has mainly been surpassed by seven day triple regimens using proton pump inhibitors; these combine omeprazole, lansoprazole, or pantoprazole with two antibiotics. Draft additions September 2006 triple witching n. Stock Market colloquial (originally U.S.) a trading session during which three types of derivatives contracts expire, typically associated with volatile and unpredictable trading; frequently attributive, esp. (in triple witching hour) designating the final hour of such a trading session; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1985 N.Y. Times 24 June d5/1 Several days before last Friday's ‘triple witching hour’, many professional stock traders again braced for a wild final 60 minutes in the life of three key market forces: index futures and stock and index options. 1998 J. Rozario in C. W. Smithson Managing Financial Risk (ed. 3) iii. 45 The large price swings that occurred during triple-witching were much anticipated and discussed by the media. 2003 Card News (Electronic ed.) 14 May Visa and MasterCard were facing a litigation triple witching hour as action on three separate antitrust lawsuits escalates in the coming weeks. 2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 Mar. 35 Volumes were heavy with 4.5bn shares changing hands and the so-called ‘triple witching’ period—when the FTSE's index futures, index options and share options expire—passed smoothly. Draft additions September 2018 triple threat n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person who is able to do three different types of work or has three different skills, now esp. a performer who can act, sing, and dance. ΚΠ 1920 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 25 Oct. He emphasized the need of a so-called ‘triple threat’, a man in the backfield who could skirt the ends, kick and throw forwards with accuracy. 1963 Southwestern Hist. Q. 67 229 He was a triple threat, playing at every position: banker, janitor, and night watchman. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 25 Apr. 36/3 The role demands a great actress, a very skilled dancer, and a strong singer—the storied triple threat. Draft additions September 2018 triple-X adj. (also triple-x) originally U.S. designating a film (or, in extended use, a publication, website, etc.) of an extremely sexually explicit nature; hardcore, pornographic; (also) of or relating to material of this kind; = XXX adj.Often in triple-X-rated adj. (cf. X-rated at X n. 8). See note at XXX adj. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > pornographic pornographic1852 pornographical1889 pornograph1893 pornographico-devotional1939 perv1942 porno1952 porny1956 jack-off1967 triple-X1969 XXX1969 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types costumed1851 foreign language1904 first run1910 Keystone1912 photodramatic1914 serial1915 coming of age1919 edge-of-your-seat1922 psychodramatic1927 omnibus1928 straight1936 low-budget1937 no-budget1937 screwball1937 Ealing1939 blockbusting1943 private eye1946 film noir1952 white telephone1952 portmanteau1953 uncut1953 anthology1955 three-D1955 Hammer1958 noir1958 co-production1959 kitchen sink1959 kidult1960 docudrama1961 cinéma vérité1963 maudit1963 filmi1965 indie1968 triple-X1969 XXX1969 drama-documentary1970 cheapie1973 gross-out1973 high concept1973 chopsocky1974 hard R1974 buddy movie1975 sci-fi1977 mondo1979 hack-and-slash1981 microbudget1981 hack-and-slay1982 slice-and-dice1982 fly on the wall1983 psychotronic1983 noirish1985 Mad Max1986 stoner1987 bonkbusting1993 straight to DVD1997 1969 Congress. Rec. 115 10815/2 Will you be left with ‘triple X’ films and have the cinema labeled ‘censored to the community’? 1977 Fort Madison (Iowa) Democrat 14 Feb. 10/3 She asked for changes in the law to ban triple-x theaters and pornographic book shops. 1999 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. b2/4 [He] all but gets the vapors when speaking of his clients' triple-X-rated magazines and videos. 2007 Daily Star (Nexis) 2 Nov. lw68 Here he was in our bed, rutting away like a triple-X porn star. Draft additions September 2019 triple-double n. Basketball the achievement of a double-digit total in three of five statistical categories (assists, blocks, points, rebounds, and steals) by a player over the course of a single game; cf. double-double n. 2. ΚΠ 1980 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. iii. 12/5 Laker Notes... Magic was one rebound shy of a rare triple-double—double figures in points, rebounds and assists. He did that seven times last year. 2012 M. Quick Boy21 (2014) xx. 106 Rod was pretty awesome. I once saw him get a triple double against Pennsville—sixteen assists, eighteen points, ten rebounds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). triplev. /ˈtrɪp(ə)l/ Forms: see triple adj.; also Middle English threpil, threpel, tryple. Etymology: < medieval Latin triplāre (see triplate adj. and n.); compare French tripler (1484 in Godefroy Compl.), Provençal triplar. 1. a. transitive. To make three times as great or as many as before; to multiply by three; to make threefold; to treble. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase by specific proportion doublec1290 treblea1325 triplea1400 redouble1477 quadruple1487 sextuple1632 quintuple1639 quinquiplicate1656 quintuplicate1676 fivefold1858 tenfold1858 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > multiply by three [verb (transitive)] treblea1325 triplea1400 triplicate1623 triplicitate1657 a1400–50 Alexander 1476 Þe bischop..Comandis to ilka creatour to crie þurȝe þe stretis, To thre dais on a thrawe be threpild [v.r. threpelytt] to-gedire. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 30 And said, that he suld fecht that day, Thouch Tryplit or quadruplit [1489 Adv. tribill and quatribill] war thai. 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. G.^v To double the remayner of poundes, and triple the remayner of shyllynges. 1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 297 Thair abone impresonment to be tripled. 1620 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 208 Private traders..who confesse they triple their principall between that place and Bantam. 1655 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 23 His Highnesse..tripled the guards, and scoured the citty and 4 miles round with horse. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 128 The body goes on with the double impression, and receives also a new one which triples it. 1795 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 17/1 She was determined to double and even triple her army. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 625/2 He will return them [sc. books]..with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. 1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1864) II. i. 119 The export of foreign commodities was tripled. b. To fold in three thicknesses. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 326 To Triple, to..folde a thing three times. c. spec. in Mechanics. To alter (a steam-engine) from single or double expansion to the triple-expansion type; also, to fit (a vessel, etc.) with triple-expansion engines. ΚΠ 1891 [implied in: Times 26 Oct. 4/3 There is a fair amount of tripling of engines in old vessels ordered. (at tripling n. 1b)]. 2. To amount to three times as many as. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > multiply by three [verb (transitive)] > amount to three times as much as triple1589 treble1615 1589 Trve Coppie Disc. Voy. Spaine 33 Their losse I can assure you did triple ours, as well in qualitie as in quantitie. 3. intransitive. To grow to three times the former number or amount. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific proportion doublec1320 redouble?1473 treblea1625 quadruple1776 quintuple1792 triple1799 octuple1837 sextuple1856 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > multiplication by three > increase threefold [verb (intransitive)] treblea1625 triple1799 1799 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 28 526 Our author hesitates whether wages have not tripled. 1805 Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) II. 15 I..was pleasing myself with the notion..that your income was tripling and quadrupling in value. 1839 Times 11 June Within the last twenty years it [crime] has tripled. 4. Baseball. To hit a triple (see triple n. 6). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (intransitive)] > types of hit bunt1889 fungo1889 fly1893 sacrifice1905 triple1908 pinch-hit1911 homer1912 single1916 squeeze bunt1952 1908 Sporting News 17 Sept. 4/5 The very next day he tripled with the bases full. 1972 N.Y. Times 4 June 3/1 Danny Thompson tripled, and consecutive singles by Rod Carew, Harmon Killebrew, Steve Braun and Bobby Darwin gave the Twins a 2–0 lead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1425adj.adv.1549v.a1400
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