duplicate

English Online Dictionary. What means duplicate‎? What does duplicate mean?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō.

Pronunciation

Noun, adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/

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
3. A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.

   Synonym: (archaic slang) tombstone
4. (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
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

Derived terms

References

• “duplicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

duplicate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

duplicate f pl

1. feminine plural of duplicato

Latin

Verb

duplicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of duplicō

Spanish

Verb

duplicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of duplicar combined with te