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Definition: Duplicator |
DuplicatorNoun1. Apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Occupations | Traces patterns and marks specifications for fabricating operations onto sheet metal, metal plates, and structural shapes, using templates, measuring instruments, and handtools: Measures stock, using rule to locate center line for positioning template. Tapes, clamps, bolts, or holds template on workpiece. Marks bending and cutting lines, using scribe, and punches or spot drills location of holes, using center punch or hand drill. May lay out straight lines and location of holes detailed on blueprints. (references) |
Public Administration | The office -- is a. . . means of reproducing circulars and office forms when neither the quantity required nor the purpose to be served warrants the expense of printing. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any machine that makes copies of writing, typing, or illustration: stencil duplicator. . . spirit duplicator. . . azograph duplicator. . . offset duplicator. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DuplicatorSynonym: copier (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: duplicating machine (public administration, publishing & graphic artspublic administration, publishing & graphic artseuropean union, mechanical engineering). |
Crosswords: Duplicator |
| English words defined with "duplicator": facsimile, facsimile machine, fax ♦ hectograph, heliotype ♦ lithograph, lithograph machine ♦ mimeo, mimeograph, mimeograph machine ♦ Roneo, Roneograph ♦ xerographic copier, xerox, Xerox machine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "duplicator": CARD LACER, JACQUARD ♦ duplicating machine, DUPLICATOR-PUNCH OPERATOR ♦ lacing-machine operator, jacquard cards ♦ model maker, plastic, MODEL MAKER, WOOD ♦ PLASTIC-FIXTURE BUILDER. (references) |
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| "Duplicator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Duplicator" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "duplicator": card duplicator. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "duplicator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | makinë fotokopjuese (xerox). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الناسخة آلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | копирна машина (printer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 复印机 (photocopier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozmnožovací stroj (copier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | reproducer (card duplicator, card reproducer, card reproducing punch, reproducer, reproducing punch), gengiver (card duplicator, card reproducer, card reproducing punch, reproducer, reproducing punch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reproducerende ponsmachine (card duplicator, card reproducer, card reproducing punch, reproducer, reproducing punch), reproduceermachine (card duplicator, card reproducer, card reproducing punch, reproducer, reproducing machine, reproducing punch, reproducing unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ماشین نسخه برداری , ماشین تهیه رونوشت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | monistuskone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | duplicateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vervielfältigungsapparat (duplicating apparatus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολύγραφοσ (cyclostyle, duplicating machine, hectograph, mimeograph, multigraph, voluminous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעתק (switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | duplikátor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | duplicatore (hectograph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 복 기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coipeyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uplicatorday duplicador. (various references) копировальный аппарат (jellygraph). (various references) aparat za kopiranje. (various references) duplicador. (various references) duplikator (mimeograph), dupliceringsapparat (jellygraph). (various references) เครื่องอั"สำเนา. (various references) teksir makinası (hectograph, manifolder, mimeograph). (various references) копіювальний апарат. (various references) máy sao chép, máy chữ đánh được nhiều bản. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "duplicator": duplicators. (additional references) | |
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"Duplicator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duplicat, supplicatory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-l-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: dicrotal, dioptral, tripodal, tropical, troupial. | |
-3 letters: apricot, aprotic, auditor, caltrop, capitol, carotid, coalpit, copular, cordial, cotidal, culprit, curtail, daturic, dilator, dilutor, dipolar, optical, outlaid, parodic, parotic, parotid, picador, placoid, plaudit, poulard, product, topical, triclad. | |
-4 letters: adroit, aortic, atopic, captor, caroli, cartop, citola, citral, coital, copula, cupola, curial, curtal, dacoit, ductal, lictor, lorica, ocular. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-l-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: duplicators. | |
+2 letters: productional. | |
+3 letters: reduplication. | |
+4 letters: reduplications. | |
+5 letters: quadruplication. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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