different between reply vs replicator

English

Etymology

From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replic?, replic?re (“I fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plic? (“I fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: re?ply

Verb

reply (third-person singular simple present replies, present participle replying, simple past and past participle replied)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

   (intransitive) Please reply to my letter.

   (transitive) "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.

   (transitive) He replied that he was not sure.

2. (intransitive) To act or gesture in response.

   Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
3. (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.

Synonyms

• respond, answer, retort, answer back, react, rejoin, counter, return, revert, follow up, get back to

Translations

Noun

reply (plural replies)

1. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
2. Something given in reply.
3. A counterattack.
4. (music) The answer of a figure.
5. (US, law) A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.

Synonyms

• answer, comeback, response, retort, return, account, rejoinder, riposte, reaction

Translations

Anagrams

• lepry, plyer

English

Etymology

replicate +? -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???pl?ke?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???pl?ke?t?/
• Hyphenation: rep?li?ca?tor

Noun

replicator (plural replicators)

1. Something capable of self-replication, like a gene or meme.
2. (science fiction) A technological device that replicates physical objects.
   • 2001 Greg Cox The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek), Star Trek, ?ISBN, page 76

     Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...

   • 2001 Judith Barad, Ed Robertson The Ethics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, ?ISBN, page 74

     either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.

   • 2007 Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop, Basic Books, ?ISBN, pages 301-302

     The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.

Related terms

• replica
• replicant
• replicate
• replication
• replicative
• replicatory
• reply

Translations

Further reading

• replicator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• replicator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

replic?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of replic?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of replic?