duplicate

Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō.

Noun, adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.plɪ.kət/

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Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjuː.plɪˌkeɪt/

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duplicate (not comparable)

1. Being the same as another; identical.

   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

duplicate (third-person singular simple present duplicates, present participle duplicating, simple past and past participle duplicated)

1. to make a copy of

   If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?

2. to do repeatedly; to do again

   You don't need to duplicate my efforts.

3. to produce something equal to

   He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

• repeat

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.

   • Sir W. Temple

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

• reproduction

duplicate

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

duplicate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of duplicare

duplicāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of duplicō