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      "\u02c8dupl\u0259k\u0259t",
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      "PIE worddw\u00f3h\u2081\nBorrowed from Latin duplic\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of duplic\u014d."
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            "mean": "Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original.\nThis is a duplicate entry."
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            "mean": "(games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.\nduplicate whist\nduplicate Scrabble"
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            "mean": "(transitive) To make a copy of.\nIf we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?\nCan you duplicate this kind of key?"
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            "mean": "(transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.\nYou don't need to duplicate my efforts."
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            "mean": "(transitive) To produce something equal to.\nHe found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife."
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            "mean": "One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.\nThis is a duplicate, but a very good replica.\nJuly 20, 1678, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer\nI send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch."
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            "mean": "(law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original"
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            "mean": "A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.\n1819, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, Vol. II, Chapter VI, p. 207:\"Sir, I hope you will excuse what I am going to say; but having observed that you frequently pledge similar goods to these at our shop, which are afterwards taken out by other persons, I take for granted you are in the habit of selling the duplicates;\u00a0\""
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            "mean": "(uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.\n1999, Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table, page 6:The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge and duplicate; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships"
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            "mean": "(uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble."
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            "mean": "(botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.\n2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer, An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status, Koninklijke Brill, \u2192ISBN, page 3:Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens as duplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database."
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            "mean": "^  1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary\n\n\n\u201cduplicate\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC."
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