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duplicate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin duplic?tus, perfect passive participle of duplic?.
Pronunciation
Noun, adjective
- IPA(key): /?dju?.pl?.k?t/
Verb
- IPA(key): /?dju?.pl?.?ke?t/
Adjective
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
Translations
Verb
duplicate (third-person singular simple present duplicates, present participle duplicating, simple past and past participle duplicated)
- (transitive) To make a copy of.
- (transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.
- (transitive) To produce something equal to.
Synonyms
- (to make a copy of): double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate
Translations
See also
- repeat
Noun
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- 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.
Synonyms
- reproduction
Translations
Italian
Verb
duplicate
- second-person plural present indicative of duplicare
- second-person plural imperative of duplicare
Participle
duplicate
- feminine plural of the past participle of duplicare
Latin
Verb
duplic?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of duplic?
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duplicitous
English
Etymology
duplicity +? -ous
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dj??pl?s?t?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /du??pl?s?t?s/, /dju??pl?s?t?s/
Adjective
duplicitous (comparative more duplicitous, superlative most duplicitous)
- Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
Synonyms
- deceitful
- double-dealing
- two-faced
Related terms
- duplicate
- duplicitously
- duplicitousness
- duplicity
Translations
Further reading
- duplicitous at OneLook Dictionary Search
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