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Definition of reduplicate in English: reduplicateverb 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 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.
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: reduplicateverb [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 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). |