different between portrait vs duplicate

English

Alternative forms

• pourtraict (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin pr?trah?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po??t?e?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po?t?e?t/

Noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   • a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts

     In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

3. (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

Antonyms

• (print mode or selection): landscape
• (print mode or selection): profile

Related terms

• portray

Translations

Verb

portrait (third-person singular simple present portraits, present participle portraiting, simple past and past participle portraited)

1. (obsolete) To portray; to draw.

Adjective

portrait (not comparable)

1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

   a portrait bust; a portrait statue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. portrait
2. (printing) portrait (format)
3. description (of a person or things)

Antonyms

• (2) paysage

Derived terms

• portrait craché
• refaire le portrait

Descendants

• ? Dutch: portret
  • Afrikaans: portret
  • ? Indonesian: potret
• ? German: Porträt

Further reading

• “portrait” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. (Jersey) portrait

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)

1. Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.

   This is a duplicate entry.

2. (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)

1. (transitive) To make a copy of.

2. (transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.

3. (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)

1. 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.

2. (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?)

3. 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; […]"

4. (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 […]

5. (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
6. (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.

Synonyms

• reproduction

Translations

Italian

Verb

duplicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of duplicare
2. second-person plural imperative of duplicare

Participle

duplicate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of duplicare

Latin

Verb

duplic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of duplic?