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# twice

«twice» in Mova's school dictionary: **two times: «I rang twice»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Twice means two times: «I rang twice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#m1)

2) Twice as many or twice as much means double the amount. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

two times as many: «twice as many as N» is N × 2; also counts events that happen two times; phrases: «twice as many», «twice a day», «think twice»

### examples

- Ben has twice as many cookies as Lily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x1)
- Zoe read twice as many pages as Tom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x2)
- Sam jumped twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x3)
- Brush your teeth twice a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x4)
- A bike has twice as many wheels as a unicycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x5)
- I knocked twice, but nobody came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x6)
- Think twice before you say something unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x7)
- My brother is twice my age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x8)
- The Fairy clapped her hands twice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/#x9)

### note

«twice as many as N» is N × 2. Trap: «twice as many» is not «2 more». «twice» alone may just count events, not multiply amounts.

### In the corpora

- [Bots add some randomness, so even the same bot can answer differently twice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/15/)
- [A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote can run about twice as fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/17/)
- [A cow's stomach has four parts, and it chews its food twice, bringing it back up as cud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/13/)
- [A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/15/)
- [A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hour, and a real coyote can run about twice as fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.