duo

1 two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duet, dyad, duad]

2 two performers or singers who perform together [syn: duet, duette]

3 a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duet]

4 a musical composition for two performers [syn: duet, duette] [also: dui (pl)]

English

Noun

1. twosome, especially musicians

Translations

See also

• trio

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

duo

1. twosome

Interlingua

Cardinal number

duo

1. two

Latin

Cardinal number

duo m|n (feminine: duae, ordinal: secundus)

1. two

   Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.

   He said that two things had abashed him.

Declension

Irregular. (Note: the word "duo", by definition, has no singular.)

Related terms

• double
• dualis
• duplex
• tres
• unus

Mandarin

Adjective

1. many; much

   zhe fen baozhi you hen duo guanggao. "This newspaper has a lot of advertisement."

   he tai duo kafei dui shenti bu hao. "To drink coffee too much is bad for health."

   women xuexiao de jianshenfang you hen duo tiyu qixie. "There're many sports apparatuses in the gymnasium of our school.

   zhe jian yiyuan li you hen duo bingren. (zhè jiàn yīyuàn li yǒu hěn duō bìngrén. 这间医院里有很多病人.) — There are many patients in this hospital.

Pinyin syllable

duo

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, duō, duó, duǒ, or duò.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Swedish

Noun

duo

1. duo, duet

For the numerical prefix duo- see Wiktionary.

Duo (Latin for two) may refer to:

• Duet (music), a pair of singers in music and the musical piece they perform
• Duo (Mega Man), a fictional robo-protagonist in the Capcom video game series Mega Man
• Duo (film), an independent film
• PowerBook Duo by Apple Macintosh
• Duo Maxwell, a fictional protagonist in the television series Gundam Wing
• Duo Airways, a defunct UK airline
• Duo (game), a computer game based on the card game UNO
• Duo (company), a South Korean marriage agency company
• Core 2 Duo, a computer processor built by Intel.
• Duo Interpretation, a category of competitive public speaking

See also

• Multiple birth, two humans sharing the same gestational period
• Bicinium, a duo with a specifically pedagogical intent in Renaissance music

both, brace, couple, couplet, distich, double harness, doublet, duad, duet, duettino, dyad, ensemble music, ensemble singing, match, mates, octet, pair, part music, part singing, part song, polyphonic music, quartet, quintet, septet, septuor, sestet, set of two, sextet, span, team, terzet, terzetto, the two, trio, twain, two, twosome, yoke