| 单词 | replicate |
| 释义 | replicate (once / 4864 pages) 1v 2v Did you just figure out how to make that excellent pizza you had in Philadelphia? Then what you’ve done is replicate it, meaning you’ve been able to reproduce it. The word replicate carries different shades of meaning, but it generally involves repeating something. Students of biology will know that the word is often used to indicate that an exact duplicate has been made, such as chromosomes that replicate themselves. It can also be used in an unscientific sense to mean that something has been done again to match or repeat an earlier outcome, such as a political group that works to replicate a successful campaign. WORD FAMILYreplicate: replicated, replicates, replicating, replication+/replica: replicas, replicate/replication: replications USAGE EXAMPLESWill digital “television” simply replicate the TV we’re used to or become something else entirely? Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) That company's engineer, Carl Bosch, then managed to replicate Haber's process on an industrial scale. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) “I remember a time when Whoopi Goldberg was the lead actress in Hollywood, and I don’t see that replicated right now,” Spencer said. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1v reproduce or make an exact copy of replicate the cell Syn|Hyper copy double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat make or do or perform again 2v make or do or perform again 2He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick Syn|Hypo|Hyper double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat copy reproduce or make an exact copy of recapitulaterepeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life geminate, reduplicateform by reduplication reproduce make a copy or equivalent of v bend or turn backward Syn|Hyper retroflex bend, flex form a curve |
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