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Reduplicate

Definitions: Reduplicate

Reduplicate

Verb

1. Form by reduplication, as of sounds or morphemes of a word.

2. Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick".

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

Date "reduplicate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Synonyms: Reduplicate

Synonyms: double (v), duplicate (v), repeat (v), replicate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reduplicate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Duplication

Verb: double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat; renew.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reduplicate

English words defined with "reduplicate": Reduplicative. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Reduplicate

"Reduplicate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reduplicate" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reduplicate

Language Translations for "reduplicate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përsërit (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, replicate, reword, say over), përsëris (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, replicate, reword, say over), dyfishoj (double, duplicate, redouble). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كرر (do again, duplicate, echo, exalt, hammer out, iterate, rectify, redouble, refine, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, say again), ‏مكرر (iterative, purified, refined, reiterated, repeated), ‏نسخ (copy, countermand, duplication, engross, mimeograph, reproduce, reproduction, supersede, transcribe, transcription), ‏ضاعف (compound, double, fold, geminate, heighten, multiply, redouble), ‏صاغ (coin, draw up, fashion, forge, frame, model, mold, mould, put, redact, shape, state). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

удвоявам (double, duplicate, geminate, redouble), редуплицирам, повтарям (echo, geminate, go over, ingeminate, re echo, recrudesce, rehearse, renew, repeat, replay, reproduce, rerun, say over). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zdvojnásobit (double, redouble), zdvojit (double, double up). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نسخه دوم , تکرارکردن (Rehearse, Reiterate, Renew, Repeat), المثنی (Double, Replica), دوچندان , دوبرابرکردن (Redouble, Reduplication). (various references)

   

French

  

redoubler (redouble), rédupliquer, réduplicatif. (various references)

   

German

  

verdoppeln (double, redouble, to double). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναδιπλασιάζω (redouble). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"כפיל (geminate, multiply). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megkettõz (double, redouble), megismétel (ingeminate, to reassert, to renew, to repeat, to translate), megdupláz (to double). (various references)

   

Italian

  

raddoppiare (double, redouble). (various references)

   

Manx

  

aachoipal (reduplication). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eduplicateray

   

Portuguese

  

repetir (con, do up, double, ingeminate, iterate, iteration, play down, reecho, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, replicate, say again, to execute successively a series of instructions, to repeat), reduplicar. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

repeta (con, go over, ingeminate, iterate, re echo, reaffirm, recapitulate, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, resound, review), reduplica, dubla (double, dub, duplicate, geminate, redouble, understudy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

удваивать (add twice, double, duplicate, redouble). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

reduplicirati, ponoviti (play back, rehash, reiterate, repeat, replicate, restate, say over, work over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reduplicar (double, redouble). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

upprepa (echo, ingeminate, iterate, parrot, reecho, reiterate, renew, repeat, reproduce, say over and over again), fördubbla (double, duplicate, redouble). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tekrar ikiyle çarpmak, ikilemek, iki misline çıkarmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

здво"ний (geminate, twofold), повторюватися (repeat), повторювати (iterate, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, replicate), подвоюватися (double), подвоювати (double, duplicate), подво"ний. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Reduplicate

Derivations

Words beginning with "reduplicate": reduplicated, reduplicates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Reduplicate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r-t-u"

-1 letter: pediculate, replicated.

-2 letters: calipered, curtailed, decaliter, duplicate, elucidate, peculated, predicate, replicate, repudiate, ulcerated.

-3 letters: articled, auricled, captured, carpeted, decrepit, decretal, delicate, depicter, depilate, depurate, derelict, detailer, deuteric, dipteral, drupelet, elaterid, epidural, eupatrid, lacertid, lectured, paltered, parceled, particle, pearlite, peculate, peculiar, pedalier, pedicure, picrated, pictured, pileated, plicated, praelect, preacted, preadult, preaudit, precited, preclude, prelatic, relucted, replaced, replated, retailed, reticula, reticule, tripedal, ulcerate.

-4 letters: adepter, alerted, altered, article, atelier, auricle, calipee, caliper, capelet, capered, capture, catered, cerated, citadel, cleared, cleated, clupeid, created, creedal, culprit, cupeled, cupeler, cuprite, curated, curtail, daturic, deciare, declare, decrial, decuple, deltaic, dialect, dilater, diluter, diptera, ductile, edictal, educate, epaulet, epicure, eructed, erudite, erupted, eucrite, leadier, lecture, leucite, paretic, partied, pearled, peatier, peculia, pedicel, pedicle, peracid, percale, periled, perlite, petaled, petrale, picrate, picture, pierced, pileate, pirated, plaited, plaiter, platier, plaudit, pleader, pleated, pleater, plectra, pleurae, plicate, predate, predial, predict, preedit, prelate, prelect, prelude, puerile, radicel, radicle, reacted, receipt, recital, recited, redtail, relaced, related, replace, replate, replead, replica, replied, reptile, reputed, retaped, reticle, retiled, taliped, tapered, tierced, tiercel, traduce, trailed, treacle, treadle, triclad, tripled, ulcered, updater, uprated, uralite, uredial, utricle.

-5 letters: aculei, acuter, aedile, aeried, airted, aliped, apercu, apiece, aplite, ariled, atelic, audile, aulder, caplet, caried, carped, carpel, carpet, carted, cartel, caudle, cedula, ceiled, ceiler, cerate, cereal, cerite, citral, claret, cleped, clerid, cradle, craped, crated, create, credal, credit, creped, culpae, curate, curdle, curiae, curial, curite, curled, curtal, cutler, dartle, dautie, dealer, dearie, decare, deceit, decile, deicer, delate, delict, deltic, depart, depict, depute, derail, derate, detail, dialer, diaper, dieter, dilate, dilute, direct, ductal, dueler, dulcet, ecarte, eclair, elapid, elated, elater, eluate, eluder, eluted, epical, ideate, lacier, laired, lauder, leader, leaped, leaper, lieder, luetic, paired, palier, palter, parcel, pardee, pardie, parled, parted, peaced, pealed, pedate, pedlar, pedler, pelite, pelted, pelter, perdie, perdue, pereia, petard, petrel, pieced, piecer, pierce, pirate, placed, placer, placet, placid, plaice, plated, plater, pleiad, pleura, plicae, plutei, prated, preact, precut, priced, pureed, purled, putrid, railed, reaped, recept, recipe, recite, reclad, rectal, redact, redate, redcap, rediae, redial, redipt, reduce, reedit, relace, relaid, relate, relict, relied, reluct, repaid, repeal, repeat, repled, repute, retail, retape, retial, retied, retile, rictal, ritual, rutile, tailed, tailer, talced, teacup, teared, teledu, tercel, tierce, tiered, tirade, tirled, traced, trepid, triced, triple, truced, tuladi, updart, update, uprate, uptear, uracil, uratic, uredia, ureide, uretic.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: reduplicated, reduplicates.

 

+2 letters: recapitulated, reduplicative, unpredictable.

 

+3 letters: unpredictables.

 

+4 letters: reduplicatively.

 

+5 letters: perpendicularity, reconceptualized, undercapitalized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reduplicate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 64 75 70 6C 69 63 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100100 01110101 01110000 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#100 &#117 &#112 &#108 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0064 0075 0070 006C 0069 0063 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5271708782787569678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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