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Duplicate vs Mimeograph - What's the difference?

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Duplicate is a related term of mimeograph.


As verbs the difference between duplicate and mimeograph

is that duplicate is to make a copy of while mimeograph is to make mimeograph copies.

As nouns the difference between duplicate and mimeograph

is that duplicate is one that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy while mimeograph is an invention of thomas a edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.

As an adjective duplicate

is being the same as another; identical this may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.

duplicate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.
    • This is a duplicate entry.

    Verb

    (duplicat)
  • to make a copy of
    • If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
  • to do repeatedly; to do again
    • You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
  • to produce something equal to
    • He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

    See also

    * repeat

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
    • This is a duplicate , but a very good replica.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
  • (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.
    • (Burrill)
  • The game of duplicate bridge.
  • * 1999 , Matthew Granovetter, Murder at the Bridge Table (page 6)
    • 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
  • The game of duplicate Scrabble.

    • Synonyms

    * reproduction

    mimeograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invention of Thomas A. Edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.
    • 1910' ''So it also is in regard to the '''mimeograph , whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device'' — Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin, ''Edison, His Life and Inventions , Chapter 27.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mimeograph copies.
    • 1919' ''Even the ultra-respectable "Evening Transcript", organ of the Brahmins of culture, was down for $144 for typing, '''mimeographing and sending out "dope" to the country press.'' — Upton Sinclair, ''The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation , Book 4.