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Definition: Replicate |
ReplicateVerb1. 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 "replicate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonyms: ReplicateSynonyms: double (v), duplicate (v), reduplicate (v), repeat (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Replicate |
| English words defined with "replicate": double, duplicate ♦ reduplicate, repeat, Replicated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "replicate": 3C protease, 3D-polymerase ♦ autonomously replicating sequence ♦ clonebot ♦ Defective Viruses, defining contrast, defining relation ♦ Helper Viruses, HTLV-II ♦ memetics ♦ recombinant DNA molecule, replicate plant, replicate sampling, resolvable designs ♦ Sarcoma Viruses, Murine ♦ Virus Activation, Viruses. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hantaviruses replicate exclusively in the host cell cytoplasm. (references) | |
A clinical trial funded by the NIH and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation will try to replicate the Edmonton advance. (references) | ||
A nationwide clinical trial funded by the NIH and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is currently trying to replicate the Canadian advance. (references) | ||
Business | If other companies try to replicate the Dell model, then it could mean the end of the channel players. (references) | |
Many new pieces of equipment, such as intra-oral cameras and lasers, simply replicate the functions of existing and less expensive (ie., more cost-effective) devices. (references) | ||
The perceived advantages of U.S. equipment are its long history of successful application in the United States and its adaptability to Argentine conditions that in many parts replicate those found in the United States. (references) | ||
Economic History | Canada | An American company entering Canada should evaluate the system of after-sale service and support in the US market, and replicate that network as closely as possible in the Canadian market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Replicate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.19% of the time. "Replicate" is used about 146 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 82.19% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.38% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.42% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "replicate": replicate plant. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "replicate": half-replicate, self-replicate. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
replicate | 32 |
dvd replicate | 5 |
access control note replicate | 5 |
latin replicate square | 4 |
replicate virus | 4 |
host replicate site web | 3 |
replicate watch | 3 |
account active directory replicate restore | 3 |
replicate web site | 3 |
replicate software | 2 |
names.nsf replicate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "replicate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përsërit (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, reword, say over), përsëris (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recapitulate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, reword, say over), kopjoj (calk, copy, crib, duplicate, facsimile, imitate, pattern, transcribe, transfer, write out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تكاثر (breed, generation, increase, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, reproduce, reproduction, spawn, swarm), توالد (breed, luxuriate, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, reproduce, reproduction, spawn), طوى (double, double back, fold, lap, pleat, roll up, turn down, wreathe, writhe), ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, tribute, tuck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отговарям (accord, account, answer, correspond, fit, fulfill, match, rejoin, reply, respond, retort, vouch), отвръщам (avert, call back, reciprocate, rejoin, reply, requite, return, say back), прегъвам назад, правя точно копие от, правя точно копие на, имитирам точно. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 复制 (Copied, Copying, Dup, Duplicated, Duplicating, Duplication, Replicated, replication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | udìlat kopii. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reproduire (repeat, reproduce), replier, replié. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederholen (iterate, rebroadcast, recapitulate, reiterate, repeat, replay, retake, retry, review, revise, rollback, stay down, to execute successively a series of instructions, to iterate, to repeat, to replicate, to rerun, to retry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτοδιπλασιάζομαι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | replika, visszahajtott (turn-down, turned down), ismétel (re echo, recapitulate, reiterate, repeat, to chant, to iterate, to recap, to recapitulate, to rehearse, to reiterate, to repeat, to replicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ripetere (echo, iterate, recur, repeat, replay, retry, rollback, run through, say, say again, to execute successively a series of instructions, to repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | リ"ア山猫 (liberation, libido, Libyan wildcat, lift, liftback, living, living kitchen, living room, living room set, living stock, makeover, rebate, reboot, reference, reference guide, referencer, refinance, refine, reflation, reflect, reflection, reflective, reform instructor, reform plan, refrain, refresh, refreshment, repeat, repeater, replace, replication, reply, repression, reprint, reproduction, revision, rib, rib roast, rift, ripple, rivet, updating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リプリケート . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 복 하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eplicateray repetir (con, do up, double, ingeminate, iterate, iteration, play down, reduplicate, reecho, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, say again, to execute successively a series of instructions, to repeat), fazer cópia fiel, dobrar para trás. (various references) повторять (ingeminate, iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, resound, reword, say over). (various references) raditi kopiju, uzvratiti (answer, reply, respond, retort, return, turn around), ponoviti (play back, reduplicate, rehash, reiterate, repeat, restate, say over, work over), odgovoriti (answer, discourage, dissuade, re-join, reply). (various references) reproducir exactamente. (various references) göra en exakt kopia av (double). (various references) tekrarlamak (duplicate, go over, ingeminate, iterate, play back, rebroadcast, recap, recapitulate, recrudesce, recur, re-enact, rehearse, reiterate, relapse, renew, repeat, retell, return, revise, say, say over), kopya etmek (copy, trace, trace over, transcribe), aynını yapmak (retaliate). (various references) копіювати (calk, copy, trace), відгинати (double back), повторювати (iterate, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "replicate": replicated, replicates. (additional references) | |
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"Replicate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repleate, replicant, replicare, replicater, repricate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "replicate" (pronounced re"plukā't) |
| 6 | -p l u k ā' t | complicate. |
| 5 | -l u k ā' t | allocate, aluminosilicate, misallocate. |
| 4 | -u k ā' t | abdicate, authenticate, communicate, dedicate, deprecate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, indicate, intoxicate, pontificate, predicate, prognosticate, reciprocate, rededicate, reeducate, suffocate. |
| 3 | -k ā' t | adjudicate, bifurcate, cheapskate, confiscate, implicate, inculcate, locate, lubricate, medicate, obfuscate, prefabricate, sophisticate, truncate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: particle, pearlite, praelect, prelatic. | |
-2 letters: article, atelier, calipee, caliper, capelet, paretic, peatier, percale, perlite, petrale, picrate, pileate, plaiter, platier, pleater, plectra, plicate, prelate, prelect, receipt, recital, replace, replate, replica, reptile, reticle, tiercel, treacle. | |
-3 letters: apiece, aplite, atelic, caplet, carpel, carpet, cartel, ceiler, cerate, cereal, cerite, citral, claret, create, ecarte, eclair, elater, epical, lacier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: altarpiece, epicentral, preethical, replicated, replicates. | |
+2 letters: altarpieces, centripetal, perithecial, praelecting, predictable, reduplicate, replicative, telegraphic. | |
+3 letters: inoperculate, perceptional, perspectival, phylacteries, precentorial, preceptorial, precipitable, preeclamptic, recapitalize, recapitulate, reduplicated, reduplicates, ultraprecise. | |
+4 letters: centripetally, cephalometric, convertiplane, cooperatively, deprecatingly, deprecatorily, hypermetrical, inoperculates, interparticle, letterspacing, parenthetical, peculiarities, petrochemical, preceptorials, precipitately, precollegiate, predicatively, recapitalized, recapitalizes, recapitulated, recapitulates, reduplicative, specularities, stereotypical, unpredictable. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 6C 69 63 61 74 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .-.. .. -.-. .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p l i c a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 006C 0069 0063 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182787569678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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