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duplicate
[doo-pli-kit, dyoo-, doo-pli-keyt, dyoo-]
noun
a copy exactly like an original.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:anything corresponding in all respects to something else.
Cards.a duplicate game.
verb (used with object)
to make an exact copy of.
to do or perform again; repeat.
He duplicated his father's way of standing with his hands in his pockets.
to double; make twofold.
verb (used without object)
to become duplicate.
adjective
exactly like or corresponding to something else.
duplicate copies of a letter.
consisting of or existing in two identical or corresponding parts; double.
Synonyms:Cards.noting a game in which each team plays a series of identical hands, the winner being the team making the best total score.
duplicate
/ ˈːɪəə /
adjective
copied exactly from an original
identical
existing as a pair or in pairs; twofold
noun
an exact copy; double
something additional or supplementary of the same kind
two exact copies (esp in the phrase in duplicate )
verb
(tr) to make a replica of
(tr) to do or make again
(tr) to make in a pair; make double
(intr) biology to reproduce by dividing into two identical parts
the chromosomes duplicated in mitosis
Other Word Forms
- duplicative adjective
- nonduplicating adjective
- preduplicate verb (used with object)
- quasi-duplicate adjective
- self-duplicating adjective
- unduplicated adjective
- ˈܱپ adjective
- ˈܱٱ adverb
- ˌܱˈٲ noun
- duplicable adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of duplicate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of duplicate1
Idioms and Phrases
in duplicate, in two copies, especially two identical copies.
Please type the letter in duplicate.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
One cellphone company attributed the duplicate alerts to a result of “overload, due to high volume and long duration of alerts sent during fires.”
The Indian ministry has said that labelling the jewels as "duplicates" is misleading and that these relics make up the "inalienable religious and cultural heritage" of India.
Only a small "portion of duplicates", which he was allowed to keep, remained in the Peppé family, he notes.
If China and the U.S. decoupled their economies, duplicate supply chains would emerge — one that involves China and one that involves the U.S.
They called the melody and phrasing a "duplicate" of their own songs.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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