Dope vs Duplicate - What's the difference?
dope | duplicate |
(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
(uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
(uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen,
(uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
* 1953 , , Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer , Pantheon, 1981, p. 18
(uncountable, slang) Information.
* What's the latest dope on the stock market?
(countable, slang) A stupid person.
(slang) To affect with drugs.
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
(electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
(slang) To use drugs.
(slang) Great, amazing or extraordinary.
being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.
to make a copy of
to do repeatedly; to do again
to produce something equal to
One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
* Sir W. Temple
(legal) 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.
The game of duplicate bridge.
* 1999 , Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table (page 6)
The game of duplicate Scrabble.
As verbs the difference between dope and duplicate
is that dope is while duplicate is to make a copy of.As adjectives the difference between dope and duplicate
is that dope is doped while duplicate is being the same as another; identical this may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.As a noun duplicate is
one that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.dope
English
Noun
- Here's a cure for all your troubles, here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler, with his powdered happiness.''
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* dope fiend * dope sheet * dope slap/dope-slapVerb
Adjective
(er)- That party was dope !
Anagrams
* * * * ----duplicate
English
Adjective
(-)- This is a duplicate entry.
Verb
(duplicat)- If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
- You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
- He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.
See also
* repeatNoun
(en noun)- This is a duplicate , but a very good replica.
- I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
- (Burrill)
- 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
