duplicate
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PIE word |
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*dwóh₁ |
Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō.
PronunciationEdit
Noun, adjective
Verb
AdjectiveEdit
duplicate (not comparable)
- Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.
- This is a duplicate entry.
- (games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.
- duplicate whist
- duplicate Scrabble
TranslationsEdit
identical
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VerbEdit
duplicate (third-person singular simple present duplicates, present participle duplicating, simple past and past participle duplicated)
- (transitive) To make a copy of.
- If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
- Can you duplicate this kind of key?
- (transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.
- You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
- (transitive) To produce something equal to.
- He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.
SynonymsEdit
- (to make a copy of): double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate
TranslationsEdit
to make a copy of
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to do repeatedly; to do again
to produce something equal to
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See alsoEdit
NounEdit
duplicate (countable and uncountable, plural duplicates)
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- This is a duplicate, but a very good replica.
- July 20, 1678, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer
- I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original[1]
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- 1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Vol. II, Chapter VI, p. 207:
- "Sir, I hope you will excuse what I am going to say; but having observed that you frequently pledge similar goods to these at our shop, which are afterwards taken out by other persons, I take for granted you are in the habit of selling the duplicates; […]"
- 1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Vol. II, Chapter VI, p. 207:
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- 1999, Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table (page 6)
- The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships […]
- 1999, Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table (page 6)
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- 2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer, An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status, Koninklijke Brill, →ISBN, page 3:
- Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
an identical copy
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
- duplicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
duplicate
- inflection of duplicare:
Etymology 2Edit
ParticipleEdit
duplicate f pl
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
duplicāte
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
duplicate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of duplicar combined with te