Double - is it good or bad? Although, perhaps, we did not start with that. However, the question must first be answered. Double - good in playing sports and bad - in the movies. When there are a lot of goals and points, that's great. And the directors dream that there were fewer takes. Previously, everything rested on the amount of film, and now - on the fees of the actors for the shooting day. But to the point.
Meaning
Before discussing the moral side of the issue, you need to find ground under your feet in the form of the meaning of the word "double" in the explanatory dictionary. So let's close this issue right away. So, according to the dictionary, this is:
- Re-shooting a scene in a movie (special term).
- In sports: double win.
This time the explanatory dictionary did not help us much. What to do, because some of its definitions are already outdated. Now a double is called not only a double victory, when, for example, one team took both the championship and the national cup, but also success in specific matches. If a football player or hockey player scores two goals or two goals, respectively, then such success is called a “double”. Also in colloquial speech, you can find that a double is a duplicate, but not in the sense of an official document, but in the sense of a copy.
There are no direct synonyms, but there are variants
Yes, initially the situation is as described in the sub title. If you look for synonyms in the dictionary, you can’t find a pair for a double. But it all depends on what kind of meaning the speaker puts into the object of study. Therefore, we will divide the list of synonyms for the “double” into two parts - sports and household. Sports first:
- success;
- win;
- victory;
- goal;
- puck;
- ball.
And now about life:
- copy;
- clone;
- double;
- repeat;
- instance;
- twin.
As you can see, you can achieve a lot if you think a little about how, well, or almost like, one very famous character said. Often in life, a double is a copy, because few Russian speakers (except those whose professional interests lie in the same latitudes) open an explanatory dictionary. Moreover, no book (even the most wonderful) can contain a "living as life" language that is constantly updated and changed.
The benefits and harms of duplicates for life
And now the answer to the question posed at the beginning: "Is doubles good or bad?" If we take into accountthe previous story, it turns out that only cinema suffers from duplicates, and sports, on the contrary, only welcome them, is it so? Yes it is. But, unfortunately, life itself suffers from repetition. A person often steps on the same rake, as if shooting the same scene, and each time he hopes that the screenwriter has changed something in the script. But hopes are usually not justified. Yes, life's mistakes are repetitions. Life is a harsh teacher, so she wants the lesson to be learned perfectly.
But there are more harmless situations. For example, a book lover chooses a book in a store, and then comes home and finds that he already has such a publication. Therefore, the purchased copy can be called a double. Probably, one way or another, but the word "double" in the sense of a copy came to us anyway from the cinema, because there is the expression "double two", and we can hear it not only on the set, but in general wherever or for other reasons, people are forced to repeat something. We hope that the reader and I will not need a second take.
