duel — meaning in English

English meaning

• affront noun An action or remark that deliberately insults or offends someone.
• dual adj Made up of two parts, or relating to two of something.
• duel noun A prearranged fight between two people, historically to settle a matter of honor.

Senses

duel is used for these senses in English:

• affront (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
• dual Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
• dual (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
• dual (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.

affront — full definition

1. noun An action or remark that deliberately insults or offends someone.
2. verb To insult or offend someone openly.

dual — full definition

1. adj Made up of two parts, or relating to two of something.
2. verb (British) To upgrade a single-lane road into a dual carriageway.

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