double-headed
double-headed adjective: having two heads. Also the simple past and past participle of double-head.
Adjective
double-headed (not comparable)
- Having two heads.
- a double-headed serpent
- double-headed muscles
- Of a coin, having a head on both sides, especially when counterfeited by being constructed from two separate coins.
- Of a train, hauled by two locomotives.
- Synonym of sepmag (“having separately recorded picture and soundtrack”).
- Synonyms:
- sepmag
Also used as
double-headed is also the simple past and past participle of double-head.
Examples of double-headed in a sentence
- The arms of the City of Perth are mounted on the breast of a double-headed eagle, from which the single-headed eagle of the railway arms was derived.1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
- Doli: Georgian double-headed cylindrical drum2005, Ashish Pandey, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, page 212:
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Words formed from double-headed
Questions about double-headed
- What does double-headed mean?
- Double-headed means having two heads.
- How do you use double-headed in a sentence?
- The arms of the City of Perth are mounted on the breast of a double-headed eagle, from which the single-headed eagle of the railway arms was derived.
- What part of speech is double-headed?
- Double-headed is an adjective.
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