dual
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˈduːəl/
- Specialized
- 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
- Archaic
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7.7
A screen divided into top and bottom halves that update at the same time to work faster
- Specialized
A small row of tiny switches on a computer board used to set hardware options
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.