Triple
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
One of three; third.
To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
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Triple Quotations
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.
Elton John
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
Francis Crick
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
Marilyn Hacker
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara Tuchman
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
James Lee Burke
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
Murray Gell-Mann
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
Sherwood Boehlert
Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.
Allan Sherman
Triple Translations
triple in Dutch is drievoudig, driedubbel
triple in German is verdreifachen, dreimalig, dreifach
triple in Portuguese is triplicar-se
triple in Swedish is tredubbel
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