duplicate

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

PIE word
*dwóh₁

Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō.

PronunciationEdit

Noun, adjective

IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/
Audio (US) (file)

Verb

IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.ˌkeɪt/
Audio (US) (file)

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

Assamese: ভুৱা (bhua), নকল (nokol)
Bulgarian: идентичен (bg) (identičen), аналогичен (bg) (analogičen)
Catalan: duplicat (ca) m, duplicada (ca) f
Finnish: kaksois- (fi)
French: dupliqué (fr) m, dupliquée (fr) f
Galician: duplicado m, duplicada f
German: dupliziert (de), verdoppelt (de)
Italian: duplicato (it) m, duplicata (it) f
Portuguese: duplicado (pt) m, duplicada f
Romanian: duplicat (ro) m
Russian: дубликат (ru) m (dublikat), дублирующий (ru) m (dublirujuščij)
Spanish: duplicado (es)
Tagalog: kahalintulad, katulad

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

Bulgarian: правя копие (pravja kopie)
Catalan: duplicar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 複製／复制 (zh) (fùzhì)
Czech: zdvojit
Dutch: dupliceren (nl)
Finnish: kopioida (fi), kahdentaa (fi), jäljentää (fi), monistaa (fi)
French: copier (fr), dupliquer (fr)
German: vervielfältigen (de), kopieren (de), duplizieren (de) (chiefly used for a single copy), duplieren (de), verdoppeln (de), nachmachen (de) (colloquial)
Ido: duopligar (io)
Irish: dúbail
Italian: duplicare (it)
Japanese: 複写する (ja) (ふくしゃする, fukusha-suru)
Korean: 복사하다 (ko) (boksahada)
Maori: kape, tārua
Portuguese: duplicar (pt)
Quechua: iskaychay
Romanian: duplica (ro), dubla (ro), copia (ro)
Russian: де́лать дублика́т impf (délatʹ dublikát), де́лать ко́пию impf (délatʹ kópiju), размножа́ть (ru) impf (razmnožátʹ), размно́жить (ru) pf (razmnóžitʹ), дубли́ровать (ru) impf (dublírovatʹ)
Spanish: duplicar (es)
Swedish: duplicera (sv)
Turkish: kopyalamak (tr), kopyasını çıkarmak
Vietnamese: nhân bản (vi), sao chép (vi), sao lục (vi)

to do repeatedly; to do again

Finnish: tehdä uudelleen, toistaa (fi)
German: wiederholen (de), nachmachen (de), kopieren (de)
Maori: pūrua, tārua
Spanish: repetir (es), duplicar (es)
Vietnamese: lặp lại (vi)

to produce something equal to

Bulgarian: дублирам (bg) (dubliram)
Finnish: tehdä samanlainen, tehdä samalla tavalla, jäljentää (fi), kopioida (fi)
German: entsprechen (de), etwas entgegenhalten
Vietnamese: bắt chước (vi), làm theo (vi)

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; […]"
(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 […]
(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.

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