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発音

Noun, adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uː.plɪ.ˌkeɪt/

形容詞

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

動詞

duplicate (三人称単数 現在形 duplicates, 現在分詞 duplicating, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

同意語

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

参考

• repeat

名詞

duplicate (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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^[1]
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.
   • 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.

同意語

• reproduction

派生語

• in duplicate

参照

• duplicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

動詞

duplicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of duplicō