double meaning in English

noun
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a word or phrase that is open to more than one interpretation.
the title of the movie has a double meaning

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1. Old rivalries are barely submerged and every quip has a deadly double meaning.

2. Contemporary artist known for impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and Anamorphoses

3. The word "Counterpoint" has the double meaning of a musical term, plus the verbal exchange between the conductor and his captor

4. The related verb Avatarana is, states Paul Hacker, used with double meaning, one as action of the divine descending, another as "laying down the burden of man" suffering from the forces

5. Think about the sentence, "Jill saw the man with binoculars." If you are wondering whether Jill or the man had the binoculars, you are noticing the Ambiguity, or the double meaning, of this sentence.

6. Ambiguous 'Ambiguous' is a 9 letter word starting with A and ending with S Crossword clues for 'Ambiguous' Clue Answer; Having more than one meaning (9) Ambiguous: Double-meaning (9) Having more than one possible meaning (9) Lacking clarity (9) Lacking clearness (9)

7. This artifice is called equivocation or Amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him.

8. Pizan and Crenne publicly challenge those who "ont le sexe muliebre contemne" (I vi: "have slandered the female sex," with the verb " Contemner," as we have seen, having the double meaning of slandering the reputation of and even sexually abusing women).

9. However I could easily see a double meaning of the Age of Pisces (represented by Jesus himself as the Piscean fish) being the current period, transferring to the Age of Aquarius (as the full ocean) of total abundance (etymologically abundance in Latin as Abundantem means overflow, much like the ocean overflows the earth)

10. Ambiguous (adj.) "of doubtful or uncertain nature, open to various interpretations," 1520s, from Latin ambiguus "having double meaning, shifting, changeable, doubtful," adjective derived from ambigere "to dispute about, contend, debate," literally "to wander, go about, go around," figuratively "hesitate, waver, be in doubt," from ambi-"about" (from PIE root *ambhi-"around") + agere "drive

11. "of doubtful or uncertain nature, open to various interpretations," 1520s, from Latin Ambiguus "having double meaning, shifting, changeable, doubtful," adjective derived from ambigere "to dispute about, contend, debate," literally "to wander, go about, go around," figuratively "hesitate, waver, be in doubt," from ambi-"about" (from PIE root *ambhi-"around") + agere "drive, lead, act