dual
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˈduːəl/
- Specialized
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dual
- Judicial responsibility created a dual role for many abbots, both as landlord and judge.
- dual identity
- dual federalism
- dual-language
Examples
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The merging of athletics with physical education defined and prescribed the dual roles of teacher/coach.
Academic text (1994) -
Eighty respondents (49.1%) described themselves as single parents, whereas the other 83 children lived in dual-parent households.
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Such social drinking is a ritual that serves a dual function.
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Native American literature also maintains a kind of dual citizenship.
Academic text (2016) -
She was born here, she was raised there, so she has dual citizenship.
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An energy retrofit strategy is crucial to meeting the dual mandate of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Blog text (30) -
Technology that accomplishes this dual task may include audio, video, computer software, or digital texts.
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In some languages, the dual form is used to indicate two people or things.
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The languages that feature a dual grammatical number allow speakers to express that two subjects are involved.
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Many grammatical rules differ when using the dual in addition to the singular and plural forms.
Compounds
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4.9
A road with two separate sides for traffic going in opposite directions, often divided by a central barrier
- Specialized
A small row of tiny switches on a computer board used to set hardware options
- Archaic
A screen divided into top and bottom halves that update at the same time to work faster
Surface Forms
Etymology
In grammar, dual comes from the old Latin duo 'two' and names a special form some languages use to mean exactly two people or things, so the dual is different from singular meaning one and plural meaning more than one.