Doublet vs. Hose — What's the Difference?

A close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the late 1300s to around 1650.

A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes (the word pipe usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally tubing.

A pair of similar or identical things.

A flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly for watering plants and in firefighting

A member of such a pair.

Stockings, socks, and tights (especially in commercial use)

(Physics) A multiplet with two members.

Water or spray with a hose

(Linguistics) One of two words derived from the same historical source by different routes of transmission, such as skirt from Scandinavian and shirt from English.

Pl. hose Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.

An imitation gem composed of two parts, as of an inferior stone layered beneath a precious gem.

Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.

Doublets(Games) A throw of two dice in which the same number of dots appears on the upper face of each.

Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.

A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.

Pl. hos·es A flexible tube for conveying liquids or gases under pressure.

(linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).

To water, drench, or wash with a hose

(literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.

To attack and kill (someone), typically by use of a firearm:

(lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.

To exploit, cheat, or defraud.

A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.

(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.

(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.

(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.

(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.

(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

(botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.

(transitive) To water or spray with a hose.

A word ladder puzzle.

(transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.

An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.

(transitive) To deliver using a hose.

Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.

(transitive) To provide with hose garment

A game somewhat like backgammon.

(transitive) To trick or deceive.

(radio) Dipole antenna.

To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.

(historical) A man’s waistcoat.

To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.

Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.

A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)

A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.

Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet

An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.

A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

Water with a hose;

A game somewhat like backgammon.

One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

A man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance