to duplicate

Examples

• All

• Four new sets are assembled each year and duplicated for viewing by photographers around the world.

  Academic text (1995)

• The technician needs to duplicate the important documents for backup.

• And then the third step is that you ask them to duplicate what you just showed them, right?

• We do not want to duplicate it in our views, right?

• Every effort was made to duplicate them precisely, and all of this is your home now.

  Bio-Dome (1996)

• Um, duplicate what I'm doing.

  The Magician of Lublin (1979)

• So what I did is I duplicated some dates.

• As indicated earlier, this program has the potential to duplicate MyiLibrary titles.

  Academic text (2013)

• " If we both go to the same places, aren't we duplicating our efforts? "

  Fiction book (1996)

• A seventeen-year-old girl from Long Island duplicated the same feat only a year later.

  Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

R

to repeat

vsto duplicate

∞ 1.0

To do or say something again

is the act of making an exact copy or doing something again identically

R

to recreate

vsto duplicate

102 4.5

To make a thing again so it looks like the original

is the more exact act of making an identical copy or doing something again

R

to replicate

vsto duplicate

79 4.8

To do something again in the same way to get the same result

is the general act of making an exact copy or doing something again

C

to clone

vsto duplicate

• Specialized

58 4.5

To make an exact copy of a living thing using science

is the general action of making an exact copy not limited to biology

R

to reproduce

vsto duplicate

41 4.0

To make a copy of something that looks like the original

is the act of making an exact copy or doing something again

R

to rerun

vsto duplicate

3 2.9

Repeat a test or experiment to check the results

is the act of producing an exact copy or repeating with identical form

C

to copy out

vsto duplicate

1 2.8

Write or type something exactly as it looks in another place

is the general act of making an exact copy by any method

R

to reduplicate

vsto duplicate

1 7.8

To do something again in the same way to copy the original

is the standard act of making an exact copy or doing something again

R

to recopy

vsto duplicate

1 3.7

To write or type something again to fix mistakes

is making an exact copy or doing something again without implying correction

D

to dup

vsto duplicate

• Informal

1 8.6

To make a copy of a file or recording

is the general neutral term for making an exact copy or doing something again

R

to re-create

vsto duplicate

• UK

4.1

Make something again so it looks like the original

is the broader act of making an exact copy rather than restoring the past

Antonyms

C

to create

∞ 1.0

To make something new that does not exist yet

How Exact

to duplicate

84 3.5

to copy

177 1.0

to imitate

186 2.7

to resemble

274 2.0

Surface Forms

Etymology