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three-fold

[ three-fohld ]

noun

  1. a unit of stage scenery consisting of three flats hinged together.


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In 2011, hospitals reported more than 500,000 emergency room visits related to opioids, a three-fold jump since 2004.

Revenues rose fourfold from $28.2 million in 2010 to $106.3 million in 2011, then rose three-fold to $316.9 million in 2012.

That year, the Justice Department recorded 349 homicides in South Florida, a three-fold increase in just two years.

All versions of health insurance reform before Congress would offer a three-fold fix to this.

Always fruitful for a three-fold end; and never failing to be prolific, the trees bearing even for centuries.

Rhythm, melody, and harmony are simply the three-fold means of expression, both of the musician and of Mother Nature.

Music also has its three-fold manner of expression, its rhythm, its melody, and now its harmony.

In this three-fold aspect of music, then, we may perhaps find the key as to whether music must necessarily imply anything or not.

The number of states is now more than doubled, and ere long will probably be three-fold.

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