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say it: DOO-uhl
dual is an adjective meaning "consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs". It carries 3 recorded senses.
having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
“a double (or dual) role for an actor”
“the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence”
“every episode has its double and treble meaning”
a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural)
“ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dual come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.