difference between double-ended linked lists and doubly-linked list

Question

I don\'t understand difference between a double-ended and doubly-linked list.

What is the major difference between the two?

Answer 1

A double ended list is similar to an ordinary linked list, but it has one additional features: a reference to the last link as well as to the first. In a doubly linked list each link has two references to other links instead of one. The first is to the next link, as in ordinary lists. The second is to the previous link.

Answer 2

In a doubly linked list, each node has two pointers. One towards its next node and another one towards its previous node.

In a double-ended linked list, each node has just one pointer which points to its next node. Its difference from the single-ended linked list is that instead of just one "head" node, it contains two pointers of this kind ("first" and "last"), so someone is able to insert elements to list from both ends of it.

(Last picture isn't that clear, but it catches the point of the two ends.)

Answer 3

A doubly linked list is a list where the elements have pointers to both the element before and after in the list.

A double ended list is from my understanding the same as a deque. That is a queue from which you can add and remove items from both the top and the bottom.