Counterpart

Definition: Counterpart

Counterpart

Noun

1. A person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another.

2. A duplicate copy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "counterpart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Biology & Biotechnology

Finance

Mining

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Synonyms: Counterpart

Contraposition

Contraposition, opposition; polarity; inversion; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South.

Copy

Noun: copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness.

Similarity

Analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille.

Crosswords: Counterpart

I'd like to welcome you all to an event that's sometimes been called the Automotive counterpart to the Bay of Pigs. (The Cannonball Run; writing credit: Brock Yates)

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Books

• Classical Potential Theory and Its Probabilistic Counterpart (Classics in Mathematics) (reference)

• Creative Counterpart (rev) (reference)

• Exchange of expertise : the counterpart system in the new international order (reference)

• Health Purifiers and Their Enemies: A Study of the Natural Health Movement in the United States With a Comparison to Its Counterpart in Germany (reference)

• Music and Ministry: A Biblical Counterpart (reference)

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A technique called in situ hybridization shows whether a gene is actively expressed in cells, and also provides clues to the gene's function. This technique has helped identify activated oncogenes in cancer cells, and their normal counterparts in normal cells, in many different species. In this photograph, a labeled DNA segment (a known oncogene) has been put into a mouse oocyte, a cell that develops into a mature egg cell. The labeled DNA has paired with (or hybridized to) multiple copies of RNA in the mouse oocyte. The presence of this RNA (shown here as black dots inside the nucleus of the immature cell) shows that the normal cellular counterpart of the oncogene is active, suggesting that it is critical for normal germ cell development. Expression of genes is manifested by the production of RNA transcripts within cells. Hybridization histochemistry (in situ hybridization) permits localization of these transcripts with cellular or greater resolution. Furthermore, the relative amounts of transcripts detected within different tissues or the same tissues under different states (e.g., physiological or developmental) may be quantified. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A master fisherman taking a break on the gear of human counterpart. Credit: Fisheries.

Photographed at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, circa February 1954, with USS Yorktown (CVA-10) at right and eleven LCM landing craft in the foreground. Grumman AF "Guardian" anti-submarine aircraft are parked on Sicily's flight deck. Douglas AD "Skyraider" attack planes are parked aft on Yorktown's flight deck. The original caption, released by Commander Naval Forces Far East on 18 February 1954, reads: "Twins, Almost -- The Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CVA-10) and her smaller counterpart, the escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118), rest side by side during a recent in-port maintenance period at the Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Base". Credit: NAVY.

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There are men who seem born to be the opposite, the reverse, the counterpart.

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Health

CIDP is closely related to acute Guillain-Barré syndrome and it is considered the chronic counterpart of the acute disease. (references)

Business

This industry in western Mexico lacks the sophistication of its counterpart in the United States, but it has a number of advantages. (references)

The architectural community is rather exclusive and it may be difficult for foreign companies to enter this market without an Argentine counterpart. (references)

Foreign companies need an Argentine counterpart with a professional registration number to handle the paperwork required by the Argentine government for any project. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

Political parties frequently affiliate with their foreign counterpart organizations. (references)

Dominican Republic

Professional organizations of lawyers, doctors, teachers, and others function freely and can maintain relationships with counterpart organizations. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

PARD's main international contact is with its Russian counterpart, PARTAD. (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

People Against Drugs and Violence (PADAV), the Eastern Cape counterpart to People Against Gangsters and Drugs (PAGAD) in the Cape Town area, clashed with gangsters in and around northern areas (Nelson Mandela Metropole) in Port Elizabeth. (references)

Belarus

On June 11, on the Web site of the NGO Charter 97, Petrushkevich charged that Lukashenka fired Bozhelko approximately a week after Bozhelko sent a request to his Russian counterpart asking for machinery designed to search for human bodies that have been buried and that Lukashenka then sent a message to the Russian Procurator General canceling Bozhelko's request for technical assistance. (references)

Political Economy

Greece

Since 1999, Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou and his Turkish counterpart Ismael Cem have been engaged in ambitious efforts to improve traditionally poor relations. (references)

Trade

Kuwait

An U.S. company may receive financing through their local agent or by a joint venture partnership formed with a Kuwaiti counterpart. (references)

Czech Rep

Like its counterpart OPIC, MIGA provides insurance to cover the risk of currency transfer, expropriation, war, and civil disturbance, and breach of contract by the host government. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

To ensure the convertibility of the CFA franc, the Banque de France guarantees the money issued by the BCEAO (and its Central African counterpart BEAC), in exchange for a BCEAO reserve requirement at the French Treasury. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

It can define your relationship with your Vietnamese counterpart and your Vietnamese counterpart's relationship with the local market. (references)

Korea

As most no-ray-bang machines come equipped with songs in English, a business person may want to be prepared to sing at least one song in order to gain social favor with their Korean counterpart. (references)

Thailand

Purpose of visit: BUSINESS, CONFERENCE, RESEARCH, TEACHING, MASS MEDIA or MISSIONARY (requiring letter from your government, agency or organization sending you on your mission or from your counterpart in Thailand). (references)

Women

Kyrgyz Republic

According to Counterpart Consortium, 293 NGO's dealing with women's problems operated in the country during the year, of which 25 deal with women's advocacy. (references)

Worker Rights

Sweden

Most business owners belong to counterpart employer organizations. (references)

Angola

Individual trade unions maintain relations with counterpart unions in other countries. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions using "counterpart": conventional counterpart ♦ conventionally grown counterpart ♦ counterpart of the net allocations of special drawing rights ♦ counterpart personnel. Additional references.

Ending with "counterpart": male-counterpart.

Albanian

plotësues (additional, complement, complementary, farther, implementing, obverse, odd, supplemental, supplementary), person i ngjashëm, homolog (homologous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسخة مطابقة (double), ‏نظير (coordinate, duplicate, equivalent, example, match, parallel, rival). (various references)

Bulgarian 

копие (assagai, assegai, carbon copy, copy, ditto, double, duplicate, imitation, javelin, manifold, print off, repetition, replication, reproduction, shaft, spear, tally, transcript, transcription), дубликат (ditto, double, doublet, duplicate), двойник (double, fetch, ringer, twin, wraith). (various references)

Chinese 

相对物, 對方 (opposite side, other person involved, other side, receiving party). (various references)

Czech

protìjšek (companion, opposite, pendant, vis-� -vis). (various references)

Danish

modværdi, modstemme, modpost (contra entry), modpart. (various references)

Dutch

tegenstem, tegenposten, tegenpartij. (various references)

Farsi 

همکار (Cohort, Cooperator, Teammate), همتا (Match), نقطه مقابل (Counterpoint), قرین (Correlate, Doublet, Like, Peer, Pendant, Tally), رونوشت (Copy, Transcript). (various references)

Finnish

vastapuoli (opposing party, opposite side). (various references)

French

double (added copy, carbon copy, copy, identical copy, multiple copy). (various references)

German

gegenstück (complement, equivalent, fellow, obverse, opposite, parallel), entsprechung (analogue, correspondence, equivalent, parallel). (various references)

Greek 

σωσίασ (double), πανομοιότυπο (facsimile, replica), λογιστική εγγραφή, αντίστοιχοσ (corresponding), αντίγραφο (copy, duplicate, replica, reproduction, transcript, transcription), ταίρι (companion, match, mate, partner, peer). (various references)

Hebrew 

עמית (associate, colleague, companion, fellow, friend, mate), �"בר מקביל, בן זו�' (companion, match, mate, partner, spouse). (various references)

Hungarian

alakmás (double, pile, wraith), hasonmás (alter ego, double, facsimile, image, like), ellenpéldány. (various references)

Indonesian

teman (bedfellow, buddy, comrade, mate, pal), tara (matching), tandingan (comparison, control), sejawat (colleague), rekan (companion, copartner), pasangan (couple, duo, mate, pair, partner). (various references)

Italian

copia (copy, manifold, model, replica, reproduction), contropartita, controparte (dealer), contraparte, duplicato (double, duplicate, replica). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見�"り資金 (collateral, collateral or counterpart fund). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みかえりしき�" (collateral, collateral or counterpart fund). (various references)

Korean 

동자격자. (various references)

Manx

tuarastyl (description, emolument, fashion, report, representation), mac-soylley (comparison, fascimile, instance, match, replica, reproduction). (various references)

Norwegian

motstykke. (various references)

Pig Latin

ounterpartcay

Portuguese

contrapartidas, contrapartida (consideration), contraparte, talão de recibo, duplicado (double, doublet, duplicate, twofold). (various references)

Romanian

copie (copy, ditto, duplicate, duplication, imitation, offtake, print, proof, repetition, replica, replication, reproduction, tally, trace, transcript, transcription), replicã (catchword, cue, imitation, rejoinder, remark, repartee, replication, reply, respond, response, retort, retortion, tag), pereche (brace, companion, couple, double, equal, fellow, like, match, mate, pair, peer), echivalent (equivalent, equivalently, synonym), duplicat (counter, doublet, duplicate, duplication, replica, tally). (various references)

Russian 

копия (carbon copy, cc, copy, doublet, edition, manifold, repetition, replica, replication, tally, transcript, transcription), дубликат (double, doublet, dupl duplicate), двойник (double, twin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odgovarajući predmet, duplikat (copy, doublet, duplicate). (various references)

Spanish

homólogo (homologous), contrapartida (setoff). (various references)

Swedish

motsvarighet (analogue, analogy, correlate, equivalent, parallel), motpart (counter part, opponent, opposite colleague, opposite number). (various references)

Turkish

suret (circs, copy, ditto, duplicate, exemplar, repetition, transcript), meslektaş (colleague, confrere, co-worker, yoke mate), karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, requital, response, return, reward, riposte, wages), emsâl, eş (better half, coequal, companion, compeer, consort, correspondent, corresponding, couple, doublet, duplicate, dutch, equal, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, husband, identic, identical, iso-, lady, like, match, matching, mate, old lady, old man, old woman, one of a pair, pair, Parti, partner, placenta, spousal, spouse, the missis, the old woman, wife), benzer (alike, analogic, analogical, analogous, analogue, approximate, closely, conformable, congener, congenerous, connate, correlative, double, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, homologous, image, in common, indistinguishable, kindred, like, look alike, match, of a piece, parallel, same, similar, simulant, stand in, vicinal), akran (coequal, coeval, compeer, contemporary, equal, fellow, peer). (various references)

Ukrainian

копія (carbon, copy, duplicate, duplication, edition, image, imitation, manifold, picture, pressing, replication, similitude, transcript, transcription), невід'�"мна частина, противник (adversary, antagonist, assailant, hostile, objicient, opponent, stickler), дублікат (doublet, rescript), двійник (double, twin). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật bổ sung, tổ chức tương ứng, người bổ sung (subsidiary), bản sao (copy, edition, facsimile), bên trong tương ứng. (various references)

instar. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "counterpart": counterparts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Counterpart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Centreparc, conterpart, counterpar, counterparty, couterpart, coutnerpart. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: copartner, procreant, raconteur.

-3 letters: capturer, coparent, courante, outcaper, outrance, patentor, portance, protract, punctate, retroact, trapunto, trouncer, truncate, turncoat.

-4 letters: capture, carport, centaur, cornute, corrupt, counter, courant, courter, creator, curator, currant, current, curtate, enactor, operant, outearn, outpace, outrace, outrate, partner, pattern, porrect, portent, pouncer, praetor, prancer, procure, pronate, prorate, protean, protect, rancour, rapture, reactor.

+1 letter: counterparts.