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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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incarnation
English
Etymology
From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k??(?)?ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
incarnation (countable and uncountable, plural incarnations)
- An incarnate being or form.
- 1815, Francis Jeffrey, Wordsworth's White Doe (review)
- She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
- 1922, Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by..
- 1815, Francis Jeffrey, Wordsworth's White Doe (review)
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
- The act of incarnating.
- The state of being incarnated.
- (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
- (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Related terms
- carnal
- incarnate
- reincarnate
- reincarnation
Translations
Further reading
- incarnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- incarnation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.ka?.na.sj??/
Noun
incarnation f (plural incarnations)
- embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)
Related terms
- incarner
Further reading
- “incarnation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.
Noun
incarnation f (plural incarnations)
- (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.
Descendants
- French: incarnation
References
- incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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