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- 2L
- two-line pass
- A pass across two of the three lines dividing the rink, the center red line and the two blue lines. Under some rules such a pass is illegal
- two-liter
- Attributive form of two liters
a two-liter bottle of Coke.
- two-liter
- A bottle designed to contain two liters
a two-liter of Coke.
- two-lane
- {s} having two lanes of traffic in the same direction
- two-lane
- having a lane for traffic in each direction
- two-lipped
- having two lips
- Two L
- 2L
- World War Two
- Alternative spelling of World War II
- a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- It is preferable to have a small but certain advantage than a mere potential of a greater one
- a thing or two
- A considerable amount; a lot
He's a good mechanic, and surely knows a thing or two about car engines.
- ass with two panniers
- A man walking with a woman on each arm
- beast with two backs
- two people engaged in sexual intercourse
- bent as a two bob
- bent, not lawful
- difference of two squares
- The identity x^2 - y^2 = (x+y)(x-y)\, that holds for all real numbers
The fraction \frac{x-8}{x^2-64} can be simplified to \frac{1}{x+8} using the difference of two squares.
- eat for two
- To be pregnant
- eatin' for two
- Eye dialect spelling of eating for two
- eating for two
- Present participle of eat for two
- eighty-two
- The cardinal number immediately following eighty-one and preceding eighty-three
- fall between two stools
- To fit into neither of two categories and, hence, be neglected or fail
- fall between two stools
- To attempt two roles and fail at both, when either could have been accomplished singly
As your chances of mega-success increase so do your chances of falling between two stools, and if you get it wrong, you could end up with a dog’s dinner that satisfies no one.
- fifty-two
- The cardinal number immediately following fifty-one and preceding fifty-three
- forty-two
- Forty plus two; the cardinal number following forty-one and preceding forty-three
- four by two
- a length of sawn wood, of cross section 4 inches by 2 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber (dimension or dimensional lumber)
- four by two
- A Jew
- give two hoots
- Care about; place value in; give a toss
- goody two shoes
- A goody-goody
- goody two shoes
- A person who is exceptionally good
- goody-two-shoes
- Alternative spelling of goody two shoes
- in two minds
- Alternative form of of two minds
- in two shakes
- Very quickly; without delay
Skilled sheep shearers can get the wool off a ewe in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
- in two shakes of a cow's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- in two shakes of a dog's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- in two shakes of a duck's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- in two shakes of a lamb's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- it takes two to tango
- Some things need the active cooperation of two parties; blame is to be laid on both parties in a conflict
He started it! Well, it takes two to tango.
- kill two birds with one stone
- To solve two problems with one single action
Biking to work kills two birds with one stone. It saves money travelling and will help to lose weight.
- like two peas in a pod
- very similar; a couple made for each other
- meat and two veg
- The male genitals
- meat and two veg
- A stereotypical standard dinner, with a meat and two kinds of vegetable
- ninety-two
- The cardinal number immediately following ninety-one and preceding ninety-three
- no two ways about it
- No other possible action, choice or option
There's no two ways about it. We'll have to start over from the very beginning.
- number two
- primary assistant; vice-leader
After showing great promise over the last 10 years, he made her his number two'.
- number two
- a first mate
- number two
- Feces; the act of defecation
I need to go number two.
- of two minds
- Undecided or unsure; equivocating; conflicted in one's opinions
I'm of two minds about Vegas. I think Vegas is strange, and I don't know where their water comes from. But as a town and a place for an entertainer, there's . . . no other place you can go to where you can just sit and do six weeks at a time and have your band and your staff be so happy.
- one can't hold two watermelons in one hand
- do not attempt to take on more than you can handle
- one country, two systems
- Slogan for the reunification of China as one country, but with areas like Hong Kong and Taiwan with separate economic and political systems
- one step forward, two steps back
- A situation in which progress is more than offset by adverse developments
We got all the roofing removed but the chimney was damaged and we discovered that some rafters had to be replaced. One step forward, two steps back. Or maybe three.
- one-two
- A quick one-touch play between two players
- one-two
- A one-two punch; two punches delivered in rapid succession
- one-two punch
- A combination of two punches, one from each hand, thrown in rapid succession
- one-two punch
- A rapid sequence of two things that has a quick effect
- one-two punches
- plural form of one-two punch
- put two and two together
- To figure out; to deduce or discern
We didn't tell our friends that we were dating, but I think they put two and two together.
- seventy-two
- The cardinal number immediately following seventy-one and preceding seventy-three
- six and two threes
- Two equivalent choices or situations
I'll leave it up to you whether you wish to include it; in other words, it's six and two threes.
- sixty-two
- The cardinal number immediately following sixty-one and preceding sixty-three
- stand on one's own two feet
- To be independent. To survive without any help
It's about time he left home and learnt how to stand on his own two feet.
- there are two sides to every question
- One should not make a judgement until one hears the other side
- they two
- third person dual pronoun
- thirty-two
- The cardinal number after thirty-one and before thirty-three
- three-center two-electron bond
- Any of several forms of extended covalent bond, deficient in one electron, joining three atoms
- trip over one's own two feet
- To stumble while walking, without having tripped over anything
- twenty two
- The cardinal number occurring after twenty one and before twenty three, represented in Roman numerals as XXII and in Arabic numerals as 22. Ordinal: twenty-second
- twenty-two
- The number after twenty-one and before twenty-three. Represented in Arabic digits as 22
- twenty-two
- A .22 calibre pistol or rifle
- twenty-two hundred
- The year 2200
- twenty-two hundred
- The start of the twenty-third hour of the day on the 24-hour clock i.e. 22: 00
- twenty-two hundred
- The number two thousand two hundred
- two
- Describing a set or group with two components
- two
- The playing cards featuring two pips
- two
- The digit/figure 2
The number 2202 contains three twos.
- two
- A numerical value equal to 2; the second number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the set {0, 1}; one plus one. Ordinal: second. This many dots (••)
- two
- A two-dollar bill
- two
- A child aged two
This toy is suitable for the twos and threes.
- two Americas
- North and South America
- two Americas
- A juxtaposition of haves and have-nots in the United States originally drawn by John Edwards in 2004
- two Americas
- The affluent English-speaking US and Canada vs Latin America
- two a penny
- very common; cheap
- two and eight
- A state (of upset, worry)
I didn't get home until two in the morning and me missus got herself into a right two and eight over it!.
- two beers, please
- Indicates the speaker wishes to buy two beers
- two birds with one stone
- any two things that were performed or completed at the same time by one action
- two bits
- Twenty-five cents, or a quarter
- two bob
- A small amount of value
As bent as a two bob note.
- two bob
- Two shillings
- two by four
- A length of sawn wood of cross section 2 inches by 4 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber (dimension or dimensional lumber)
- two by fours
- plural form of two by four
- two by two
- in pairs, especially one of each sex
- two can play at that game
- Alternative form of two can play that game
- two can play that game
- The tactics and/or strategies of an enemy can be used against him
- two cents
- One's opinion or thoughts
That's just my two cents; you can believe what you like.
- two cents
- A nearly worthless amount, alluding to placing a copper penny on each of the eyelids of a pauper's or slave's body before burial
That car won't last a week; it's not worth two cents.
- two dimensional universe
- A hypothetical universe with similar properties to our own, but flattened to only two dimensions, (eg, instead of X, Y, and Z, only X and Y). It is useful in describing physics properties such as orbits, etc
- two fat ladies
- A traditional call for the number eighty-eight
- two for two
- In baseball, meeting two out of two attempts at-bat. Specifically, it means the batter has reached base safely two out of two times
He's two for two tonight.
- two for two
- Successful at both of two efforts
- two heads are better than one
- Some problems may be solved more easily by two (or more) people working together than by one working alone
- two hundred
- The cardinal number occurring after one hundred ninety-nine and before two hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 200
- two left feet
- Exhibiting particular clumsiness, especially at dancing or at soccer
He should stay off the dance floor with his two left feet.
- two o'clock
- The start of the third hour of the day in both the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock; 2: 00
- two of a kind
- Two who are very similar
- two pair
- A hand which contains two pairs
- two pairs
- Alternative form of two pair
- two pennies' worth
- One's opinion or thoughts
That's just my two pennies' worth; you can believe what you like.
- two pennorth
- Alternative spelling of two penn’orth
- two penn’orth
- One's opinion or thoughts
That's just my two penn’orth; you can believe what you like.
- two penn’orth
- Two pennies' worth
- two pips
- A pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- two pot screamer
- A person who becomes intoxicated or rowdy after drinking just a relatively small amount of alcohol
- two second rule
- a rule of thumb by which a driver may maintain a safe following distance, allowing at least a two seconds behind any vehicle that is directly in front of the driver's vehicle
- two shot
- A scene shot with the camera positioned to observe two actors
- two solitudes
- The historical and, by some accounts, current dysfunctional relationship between the Anglophone and Francophone groups in Canada, characterized by poor communication and mutual exclusion
In tracing the development of the discipline in twentieth century Canada, it became evident that demography had progressed through a number of periods. The years to 1950 represented a period of parallel and fairly independent growth in English-speaking and French-speaking regions, with little contact and communication; it is best described as a period of one science, two solitudes..
- two thousand
- The cardinal number occurring after one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine and before two thousand and one
- two thousand
- Two times a thousand
- two thousand and one
- The number occurring after two thousand and before two thousand and two
- two thousand and one
- The year 2001
- two thousands
- The decade of the 2000s
- two thumbs up
- The strong approval itself
- two thumbs up
- A hand gesture indicating strong approval
- two wrongs don't make a right
- A wrongful action is not a morally appropriate way to correct or cancel a previous wrongful action
Late in the fight, Roger told me Zab was going to do something dirty, and he did it, Mayweather said after the fight. I didn't return it, because two wrongs don't make a right..
- two wrongs make a right
- A logical fallacy whereby a wrongful action is justified by the commission of another
- two's company, three's a crowd
- One companion is better than two
- two's complement
- The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2^{n-1} - 1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from -1 to -2^{n - 1}, n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its two's complement
Nearly all modern computers use twos complement for integer arithmetic.
- two's complement
- The number obtained by complementing every bit of a given number and adding one. A number and its complement add to 2n, where n is the word size of the machine
The two's complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5556 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5556 on a 32-bit machine.
- two-bagger
- An extremely unattractive person (usually female), the insinuation being that one bag covering her face would not be adequate. Within this joke, the second bag is often understood to cover the male's head in case the female's bag were to fall off
- two-bagger
- A double (a two-base hit)
Jones got a two-bagger in the first.
- two-bit
- insignificant or worthless
Forget that two-bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer.
- two-bit
- costing 25 cents
- two-blocked
- Of or pertaining to being prevented from proceeding. From nautical terminology for a ship's rigging or crane rigging in which two blocks are locked together, stopping the line
We're not making progress because we're two-blocked by Joe's refusal to open the tool shed.
- two-body problem
- The difficulty in obtaining employment for two people who wish to reside near one another
- two-body problem
- Finding the motion, relative to one another, of two objects, where the position of each affects the motion of the other
- two-by-four
- measuring two inches by four inches
- two-by-four
- A length of timber having this cross section. (Note: often this is dimensional lumber that was this size BEFORE being planed to finished form, which removes a quarter inch from each side.)
- two-by-four
- small or cramped
- two-decker
- A sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so were not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype
- two-dimensional
- Existing in two dimensions
- two-dimensional
- Not creating the illusion of depth
- two-edged
- having two, often contrasting, meanings or interpretations
- two-edged
- having two cutting edges
- two-faced
- deceitful, hypocritical or duplicitous
- two-faced
- having two faces or plane surfaces
- two-fingered typing
- A method of using the keyboard of a computer or typewriter in which the typist uses only two fingers (usually the index fingers) to operate the keys, used especially by a person unfamiliar with the layout of the keyboard
- two-fisted
- using both fists (or figuratively, hands)
- two-fisted
- energetic or enthusiastic
- two-fisted drinker
- Either someone who can handle their liquor well, or an alcoholic clutching a drink in each hand
Are you holding that for your girlfriend, or are you a two-fisted drinker tonight?.
- two-footed
- Having two legs or feet
- two-footed
- Using both feet
Brown was given a red card for his two-footed challenge on Jones.
- two-footed
- Ambidextrous of the feet; having equal ability with either foot
- two-four
- A case of 24 bottles of beer
- two-handed
- operated by two people
- two-handed
- operated by both hands at once
- two-handed
- ambidextrous
- two-handed
- having two hands
- two-minute silence
- a mark of respect in which all normal activity ceases and people stand in silent thought for two minutes; held regularly at 11 am on Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and on other occasions, to remember the dead
Note: one- and three-minute silences are relatively uncommon.
- two-minute silences
- plural form of two-minute silence
- two-minute warning
- In the NFL, a timeout and warning given to the coaches with two minutes to go before the end of each half
- two-norm
- Mathematical measure of length given by "the square root of the squares." Denoted by ||\cdot||_2, the two-norm of a vector \vec v= is ||\vec v||_2=\sqrt{a_1^2+a_2^2+\cdots+a_n^2}. The two norm of an m\times m matrix A is defined by \max_{\vec v\neq\vec 0}\frac{||A\vec v||_2}{||\vec v||_2} where \vec v is an m-dimensional vector that is not the zero vector
- two-percent milk
- Milk containing two percent butterfat
- two-piece
- comprising two pieces
- two-piece
- A garment consisting of two separate parts; especially such a swimsuit
- two-ply
- consisting of two layers or two strands
- two-point conversion
- An option, for a team that has scored a touchdown, to gain two points by getting the ball into the end zone by a running or pass play, in lieu of a kicked extra point
- two-point perspective
- A graphical technique in which a three-dimensional object is represented in two dimensions, and in which parallel lines in two of its dimensions are shown to converge towards two vanishing points
- two-price advertising
- A sales and marketing practice whereby the seller shows two prices, a normal price and a lower special discounted price, in order to attract customers by the apparent saving, but where the "normal" price is in fact a fiction, the goods having never actually been sold and/or offered at that price. (Genuine reduced prices are not considered two-price advertising, only the case where the higher price is invented to look like a saving.)
2006: the advertising crackdown is concentrating on two-price advertising in catalogues such as “was $150, now $100” — Western Australian Department of Consumer and Employment Protection press release Jewellers targeted in swoop on advertisements, 10 May 2006.
- two-seam fastball
- A pitch thrown with a grip in the "horseshoe" orientation of the ball, with the rotation at a slight angle resulting in less Magnus effect as compared to a four-seam fastball since only two of the ball's seams cross the flight path; the pitch is delivered with a similar velocity as a four-seam fastball, but has a degree of sink
His two-seamer has a heavy sink and keeps the infielders busy.
- two-seam fastballs
- plural form of two-seam fastball
- two-seamer
- A two-seam fastball
- two-seater
- A vehicle with seats for two people (a driver or pilot and one passenger)
- two-second rule
- A rule of thumb for safe driving by which a driver must maintain a two-second distance from the vehicle in front
- two-sided
- symmetrical
- two-sided
- reversible
- two-sided
- having two sides
- two-sided ideal
- A subring which is both a left ideal and a right ideal. Commonly referred to simply as an ideal, but referred to as two-sided ideal for emphasis
- two-spirit
- A native American gender category, often viewed as a third gender, bigender, or transgender
- two-spirit
- Someone who identifies as being two-spirit
- two-start
- Describing a construction of two helices that wrap around the same cylinder; if infinite, would divide the surface of the cylinder into two
- two-start
- Describing a double spiral that starts at the origin and divides the plane into two
- two-step
- A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps
- two-step
- A piece of music for this dance
- two-stroke
- The fuel used in a two-stroke engine
- two-stroke
- As a determiner, of a type of internal combustion engine, the working cycle of which is completed during two strokes of the piston
two-stroke engine.
- two-stroke
- Coca-Cola
- two-stroke engine
- An engine in which the pistons perform two strokes per engine cycle (i.e., intake/compression and combustion/exhaust)
- two-tier
- Having or consisting of two tiers
- two-time
- that is or are what this adjective qualifies twice over
two-time winners of the World Cup.
- two-time
- to be unfaithful to one's partner
- two-timing
- present participle of to two-time
- two-timing
- The practice of being sexually unfaithful
The two-timing wrecked his marriage.
- two-timing
- Who has two-timed another person
That two-timing SOB really hurt my feelings.
- two-tone
- having two colours or shades
- two-up
- A game of chance, played by betting on the outcome of two pennies thrown in the air
- two-up
- having two people riding on a motorcycle
- two-up-two-down
- A traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs
Houses from Second to Fifth Street were two-up-two-downs and had few amenities, no bathrooms, and were therefore cheap to rent. Some had no hot water.
- two-way
- involving the mutual action or participation of two parties
- two-way
- Playing both offense and defense in the same game
- two-way
- moving in both directions
- two-way
- allowing traffic in two directions
- two-way
- permitting communication in two directions
- two-way communication
- Any form of communication between two parties, both of whom can send and receive messages
- two-way mirror
- A mirror that is partially reflective and partially transparent
- two-way mirrors
- plural form of two-way mirror
- two-way street
- A social interaction in which both parties are expected to give and take equally
A good friendship is a two-way street.
- two-wheeler
- A bicycle or motorbike
- watch in two
- The practice of having two alternate watches aboard a ship or vessel
- we two
- first person dual pronoun
- two thirds
- 2/3 of, 66.66%
- two-fold
- {s} being composed of two parts, double
- two sides of the same coin
- Different but closely related features of one idea
- two-dimensional character
- (Fotoğrafçılık) A minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. Also referred to as "flat characters" or "static characters," flat characters play a supporting role to the main character, who as a rule should be round
- two-by-four
- piece of wood that is four units wide and two units thick; narrow, tight (Informal); lack of importance (Informal)
- That makes two of us
- (deyim) Something that you say to tell someone that you are in the same unpleasant situation, or have the same negative feelings as them
I have absolutely no idea what's going on. That makes two of us!.
- have two left feet
- (deyim) Be awkward
When it comes to dancing, I have two left feet. I stumble a lot.
- one-two
- (deyim) Any quick or decisive action which takes the opposition by surprise, thereby ensuring victory: He gave us the old one-two and won the game
- put two and two together
- understand an underlying meaning, comprehend the implied meaning
- two and two make four
- 2+2=4
- two-two
- the lower of two levels of a second-class university degree in Britain
