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单词 reduplicate
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Definition of reduplicate in English:

reduplicate

verb rɪˈdjuːplɪkeɪt
[with object]
  • 1Repeat or copy so as to form another of the same kind.

    the upper parts of the harmony may be reduplicated at the octave above
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This way, you can reduplicate the blend if you ever need to.
    • When you find that perfect blend, you want to be able to reduplicate it, and it's near impossible if you didn't take notes!
    • Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
    • The above General Terms and Conditions were not reduplicated in the revised 4 vessel policy; but the case has been argued on the basis that they are properly incorporated.
    • Of course it was kind of hard to reduplicate it, it's not like a formula, you know something that happens to you.
    1. 1.1 Repeat (a syllable or other linguistic element) exactly or with a slight change (e.g. hurly-burly, see-saw).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An earlier paper had suggested that the phenomenon of transforming items by moving or reduplicating words might be connected with reactions to incongruity.
      • In two cases English words derive from Latin words in which the infinitive ends in atare and in which the at - is therefore reduplicated in the supine; they are dilatare, to spread out, and natare, to swim.
      • Then somehow the bye-part was reduplicated and the less formal version bye-bye was formed - don't ask me why, that's the part I couldn't figure out.
      • Rumah ‘house’, buku ‘book’, and ikan ‘fish’ are among those that can be reduplicated; air ‘water’, nasi ‘rice’, and gula ‘sugar’ cannot be reduplicated.

Derivatives

  • reduplication

  • noun rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
    • Elsewhere, Kothari instructs the spectator to ‘look for the symmetrical reduplication and repetitive parallelism of dance patterns’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A second case of grammatical negative transfer is the use of reduplication when using nouns, which is a common practice in Chinese, but indicates redundancy in English.
      • Whether full or partial, reduplication can serve to intensify an adjective, place a verb into the future or the past, pluralize a noun or scatter its distribution, render an action continuous, or simply imply repetition.
      • Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
      • I've never heard of it - the ‘razzle’ in razzle-dazzle is just a variant reduplication of dazzle.
  • reduplicative

  • adjective rɪˈdjuːplɪkətɪv
    • He makes the point that reduplicative is really tautologous - ‘duplicative’ would have been sufficient, if it were a noun.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This reduplicative lexicon vanishes entirely in lines 7-10, only to reappear (further emphasized by grammatical parallelism) in lines 11-13 - ‘Sweet roses sweet deaths sweetest odours beauteous.’
      • A number are reduplicative, as in Tilba Tilba, Wagga Wagga, and Woy Woy.

Origin

Late 16th century: from late Latin reduplicat- 'doubled again', from the verb reduplicare, from re- 'again' + duplicare (see duplicate).

 
 

Definition of reduplicate in US English:

reduplicate

verb
[with object]
  • 1Repeat or copy so as to form another of the same kind.

    the upper parts of the harmony may be reduplicated at the octave above
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This way, you can reduplicate the blend if you ever need to.
    • Of course it was kind of hard to reduplicate it, it's not like a formula, you know something that happens to you.
    • The above General Terms and Conditions were not reduplicated in the revised 4 vessel policy; but the case has been argued on the basis that they are properly incorporated.
    • Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
    • When you find that perfect blend, you want to be able to reduplicate it, and it's near impossible if you didn't take notes!
    1. 1.1 Repeat (a syllable or other linguistic element) exactly or with a slight change (e.g. hurly-burly, see-saw).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then somehow the bye-part was reduplicated and the less formal version bye-bye was formed - don't ask me why, that's the part I couldn't figure out.
      • Rumah ‘house’, buku ‘book’, and ikan ‘fish’ are among those that can be reduplicated; air ‘water’, nasi ‘rice’, and gula ‘sugar’ cannot be reduplicated.
      • In two cases English words derive from Latin words in which the infinitive ends in atare and in which the at - is therefore reduplicated in the supine; they are dilatare, to spread out, and natare, to swim.
      • An earlier paper had suggested that the phenomenon of transforming items by moving or reduplicating words might be connected with reactions to incongruity.

Origin

Late 16th century: from late Latin reduplicat- ‘doubled again’, from the verb reduplicare, from re- ‘again’ + duplicare (see duplicate).

 
 
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