Synonyms of the word

triple

• adj. Made up of three related elements, often matching.
• adj. Three times the quantity.
• adj. Designed for three users.
• adj. Folded in three; composed of three layers.
• adj. Having three aspects; very ambiguous.
• adj. (music) Of time, three times as fast as very fast.
• adj. (obsolete) One of three; third.
• n. (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
• n. (US) A hamburger with three patties.
• n. (baseball) A three-base hit.
• n. (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
• v. To multiply by three.
• v. (baseball) To get a three-base hit.
• v. To become three times as large.
• v. To serve or operate as (something), in addition to two other functions.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

manifold

• n. (now historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
• n. (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
• n. (US, regional, in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
• n. (computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object.
• adj. Various in kind or quality, diverse.
• adj. Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
• adj. Complicated.
• adj. Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
• adv. Many times; repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To make manifold; multiply.
• v. (transitive, printing) To multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operation.

multiple

• adj. Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
• n. (mathematics) A whole number that may be divided by another whole number with no remainder.
• n. (finance) Price-earnings ratio.
• n. One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
• n. A single individual who has multiple personalities.
• n. One of a set of siblings produced by a multiple birth.
• n. A chain store.

multiply

• v. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
• v. (intransitive) To grow in number.
• v. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
• v. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
• n. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
• adv. In many or multiple ways.

safety

• n. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
• n. (mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
• n. (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the…
• n. (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage…
• n. Preservation from escape; close custody.
• n. (dated) A safety bicycle.
• v. (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even…

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

ternary

• adj. Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.
• adj. Arranged in groups of three.
• adj. (mathematics) To the base three.
• adj. (mathematics) Having three variables.
• adj. (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals,…
• n. A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.

three-bagger

• n. (baseball slang) A triple.

threefold

• adj. three times as great.
• adj. triple.
• adv. by a factor of three.
• n. (mathematics) An algebraic variety of degree 3.

treble

• adj. Threefold, triple.
• adj. (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
• adj. High in pitch; shrill.
• adv. Trebly; triply.
• n. (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
• n. (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
• n. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
• n. A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
• n. A drink with three portions of alcohol.
• n. (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times…
• n. (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
• v. (transitive) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
• v. (intransitive) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
• v. (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
• v. (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine.

triad

• n. A grouping of three.
• n. (music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher…
• n. (electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and…
• n. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

trio

• n. A group of three people or things.
• n. A group of three musicians.
• n. (music) A piece of music written for three musicians.
• n. (music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
• n. Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.

triplet

• n. A group of three.
• n. One of a group of three.
• n. One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
• n. (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
• n. (physics) A triquark.

triplex

• adj. Having three parts; triple or threefold.
• adj. (architecture) Having three floors or other divisions.
• n. A building with three apartments or divisions.
• n. (juggling) throwing motion where three balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.