Noun: dual
Sample Sentences
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The octahedron is the dual of the cube. The icosahedron is the dual of the dodecahedron.
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Wrestling duals and meets take place at the Wisconsin Field House. There are no advance single event ticket sales. [2010 August 3, Kevin Revolinski, Insiders' Guide® to Madison, WI, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 137:]
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But Dave agreed to participate in the Bulgarian dual, and that trapped me into having to wrestle, too. [2014 November 18, Mark Schultz, David Thomas, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, Penguin, →ISBN:]
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Early in 2021, she became the first female to compete and win a match at the Ter-Hark Cup wrestling dual, helping her squad to victory. [2023 October 19, Jason Norman, American Women in Amateur Wrestling, 2000-2022, McFarland, →ISBN, page 203:]
Nouns inflected like dual
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *dwóh₁
3. Borrowed from Latin dualis (“two”), from duo (“two”) + adjective suffix -alis. See: Latin Nouns '
dualis'.
Verbs referencing "dual"
Finnish Nouns
duaali.