REDUPLICATE

duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate

(verb) make or do or perform again; “He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick”

reduplicate, geminate

(verb) form by reduplication; “The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel”; “The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

reduplicate (comparative more reduplicate, superlative most reduplicate)

doubled

(botany) valvate with the margins curved outwardly

(botany) folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another

Verb

reduplicate (third-person singular simple present reduplicates, present participle reduplicating, simple past and past participle reduplicated)

(transitive) To double again: to multiply: to repeat.

(transitive, linguistics) To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*du"pli*cate (r*d"pl*kt), a. Etym: [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.]

1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

2. (Bot.)

Definition: Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the

Re*du"pli*cate (-kt), v. t. Etym: [Cf. LL. reduplicare.]

1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.

2. (Gram.)

Definition: To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication,3.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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