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Duplex vs Mansion - What's the difference?

duplex | mansion |

As nouns the difference between duplex and mansion

is that duplex is house made up of two dwelling units while mansion is (large house or building) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

As an adjective duplex

is double, made up of two parts.

As a verb duplex

is to make duplex.

duplex

English

Adjective

(-)
  • double, made up of two parts
  • bidirectional (in two directions)
    • duplex telegraphy

    Hyponyms

    (bidirectional) * full-duplex * half-duplex * semiduplex

    Antonyms

    * (bidirectional) simplex (unidirectional)

    Derived terms

    * duplex escapement * duplexity * duplex lathe * duplex pumping engine * duplex querela * duplex watch * half-duplex * semiduplex

    Noun

    (es)
  • house made up of two dwelling units
  • (philately) a cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
  • (juggling) throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.

    • Related terms

    * triplex * quadruplex * * * *

    See also

    * bungalow * semi-detached * townhouse * rowhouse

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make .
  • To make into a .
  • (jugging) To make a series of duplex throws.

    • Related terms

    (terms related to duplex) * contraplex * diplex * double * duplicity * multiplex * quadruplex * simplex * single * triple * triplex ----

    mansion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mansioun (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
  • (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
  • (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
  • (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
  • (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
  • * Late 14th century: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
  • An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
  • * 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
    • In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.
  • * Denham
    • These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
  • * 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
    • The many mansions in one east London house of God.
  • Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

    • Derived terms

    * mansion house * mansion place * mansionette * mansionry

    Related terms

    * manor * manse

    Descendants

    * Japanese: (borrowed)

    Anagrams

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