ditto
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- noun
- /ˈdɪtoʊ/
:
marca de repetición
- I still use a ditto machine with that solvent-smelling blue ink for my class assignments.
- ditto sheet
- ditto sheets and workbooks
Examples
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During the meeting, the manager used a ditto to show that the previous decision still applies.
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Ditto Clinton in 1992 and then 1996; ditto Reagan in 1980 and then 1984.
Blog text (10) -
Nick, one day I caught Mary stealing some ditto paper from the mimeo room.
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Horsehair came into fashion when the ditto shirts went out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Why do social studies teachers not stop using workbooks and ditto sheet exercises?
Academic text (1994) -
Mr. Tilden, his arms full of freshly printed quizzes (dittos), comes in and closes the door.
Fiction book (1996) -
Leading educators deplore seat-work based on low-level workbook and ditto-sheet exercises (Goodlad 1984).
Academic text (1994) -
The teacher instructed us to use ditto marks to indicate the repeated information in our reports.
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Please make sure to draw a ditto next to each item on the list to avoid confusion.
Synonyms
A mark used to show that the word or number above is repeated
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ditto comes from an old Italian word ditto meaning 'said', from Latin dictus 'said', the same root as in dictionary, and a ditto mark tells the reader 'as said before'.