duplicate

English

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁

Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō.

Pronunciation

Noun, adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/

• Audio (US):

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Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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

identical

• Assamese: ভুৱা (bhua), নকল (nokol)
• Bulgarian: идентичен (bg) (identičen), аналогичен (bg) (analogičen)
• Catalan: duplicat (ca) m, duplicada (ca) f
• Finnish: kaksois- (fi)
• French: dupliqué (fr) m, dupliquée (fr) f
• Galician: duplicado m, duplicada f
• German: dupliziert (de), verdoppelt (de)
• Italian: duplicato (it) m, duplicata (it) f
• Portuguese: duplicado (pt) m, duplicada f
• Romanian: duplicat (ro) m
• Russian: дубликат (ru) m (dublikat), дублирующий (ru) m (dublirujuščij)
• Spanish: duplicado (es)
• Tagalog: kahalintulad, katulad

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To make a copy of.

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

   Can you duplicate this kind of key?

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

   You don't need to duplicate my efforts.

3. (transitive) To produce something equal to.

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

Synonyms

• (to make a copy of): double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate

Translations

to make a copy of

• Bulgarian: правя копие (pravja kopie)
• Catalan: duplicar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複製／复制 (zh) (fùzhì)

• Czech: zdvojit
• Dutch: dupliceren (nl)
• Finnish: kopioida (fi), kahdentaa (fi), jäljentää (fi), monistaa (fi)
• French: copier (fr), dupliquer (fr)
• German: vervielfältigen (de), kopieren (de), duplizieren (de) (chiefly used for a single copy), duplieren (de), verdoppeln (de), nachmachen (de) (colloquial)
• Ido: duopligar (io)
• Irish: dúbail
• Italian: duplicare (it)
• Japanese: 複写する (ja) (ふくしゃする, fukusha-suru), 複製する (ja) (ふくせい, fukusei-suru)
• Korean: 복사하다 (ko) (boksahada)
• Maori: kape, tārua
• Portuguese: duplicar (pt)
• Quechua: iskaychay
• Romanian: duplica (ro), dubla (ro), copia (ro)
• Russian: де́лать дублика́т impf (délatʹ dublikát), де́лать ко́пию impf (délatʹ kópiju), размножа́ть (ru) impf (razmnožátʹ), размно́жить (ru) pf (razmnóžitʹ), дубли́ровать (ru) impf (dublírovatʹ)
• Spanish: duplicar (es)
• Swedish: duplicera (sv)
• Turkish: kopyalamak (tr), kopyasını çıkarmak
• Vietnamese: nhân bản (vi), sao chép (vi), sao lục (vi)

to do repeatedly; to do again

• Bulgarian: повтарям (bg) (povtarjam)
• Finnish: tehdä uudelleen, toistaa (fi)
• German: wiederholen (de), nachmachen (de), kopieren (de)
• Maori: pūrua, tārua
• Spanish: repetir (es), duplicar (es)
• Vietnamese: lặp lại (vi)

to produce something equal to

• Bulgarian: дублирам (bg) (dubliram)
• Finnish: tehdä samanlainen, tehdä samalla tavalla, jäljentää (fi), kopioida (fi)
• German: entsprechen (de), etwas entgegenhalten
• Vietnamese: bắt chước (vi), làm theo (vi)

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

   • 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.
   • 2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer, An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status, Koninklijke Brill, →ISBN, page 3:

     Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.

Synonyms

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• reproduction

Translations

an identical copy

• Armenian: կրկնակ (hy) (krknak), պատճեն (hy) (patčen)
• Bulgarian: копие (bg) (kopie)
• Catalan: duplicat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複本／复本 (zh) (fùběn), 複製／复制 (zh) (fùzhì)

• Czech: duplikát m, kopie (cs) f
• Finnish: kopio (fi), kaksoiskappale (fi), jäljennös (fi), duplikaatti (fi)
• French: duplicata (fr) m, double (fr) m, copie (fr) f
• Georgian: დუბლიკატი (dubliḳaṭi), ასლი (ka) (asli)
• German: Duplikat (de) n, Kopie (de) f
• Indonesian: duplikat (id)
• Italian: duplicato (it) m, doppione (it) m
• Japanese: 複写 (ja) (ふくしゃ, fukusha), 写し (ja) (うつし, utsushi), デュプリケート (dyupurikēto)
• Kannada: ಪಡಿಯಚ್ಚು (kn) (paḍiyaccu)
• Korean: 복제 (ko) (bokje)
• Maori: kape
• Occitan: còpia (oc) f, duplicat
• Polish: duplikat (pl) m
• Portuguese: cópia (pt) f, duplicata (pt) f
• Romanian: duplicat (ro) n, copie (ro) f, dublare (ro) f
• Russian: дублика́т (ru) m (dublikát), ко́пия (ru) f (kópija)
• Serbo-Croatian: duplikat (sh) m
• Spanish: duplicado (es) m
• Tagalog: duhasipi
• Vietnamese: bản sao (vi)

Derived terms

all parts of speech

• conduplicate
• deduplicate
• duplicatable
• duplication
• duplicative
• duplicator
• duplitecture
• endoduplicate
• in duplicate
• microduplicate
• misduplicate
• nonduplicate
• nonduplicated
• nonduplicating
• overduplicate
• overduplicated
• photoduplicate
• photoduplicated
• preduplicate
• retroduplicate
• sesquiduplicate
• subduplicate
• unduplicate
• unduplicated

 

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