doubler
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- noun
- /ˈdaʊblər/
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doblador
- Essentially, a doubler is just a strip of absorbent material that is laid or stuffed into the diaper to increase its absorbency, typically purchased separately from a diaper itself.
Examples
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We use cheap white cotton washcloths trifolded into our diapers as doublers, and they work just fine!
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Doublers are a cloth diapering add-on.
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And then this is the the fats doublers, all that stuff.
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These are the actual doublers and these are also inter cell parts.
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I can carry nearly 80 gigs of data in my head, 160 if I use a doubler.
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In theater, a doubler often stands in for the lead actor during rehearsal.
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The director hired a doubler to perform the stunts for the action scene in the film.
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For the documentary, they needed a doubler to voiceover the narrator's parts when he was unavailable.
Synonyms
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A person or thing that takes the place of another
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A person who stands in for another, often in movies
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A person or thing that takes the place of another
A device that makes voices or music sound fuller by copying the original sound
Compounds
- Specialized
A device that makes voices or music sound fuller by copying the original sound
How Similar
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Doubler comes from the common word double, from the old Latin duplus meaning 'two'. A person or thing called a doubler either makes a 'twofold' copy or stands in for someone else (like a stunt 'double'), so the name fits the idea of doing or replacing with two.