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Duplicate vs Reprint - What's the difference?

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Duplicate is a related term of reprint.


As verbs the difference between duplicate and reprint

is that duplicate is to make a copy of while reprint is to print (something) that has been published in print before.

As nouns the difference between duplicate and reprint

is that duplicate is one that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy while reprint is a book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.

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

    reprint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.
    • The reprint is much less expensive than a first edition.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To print (something) that has been published in print before.
  • To renew the impression of.
  • * South
    • The whole business of our redemption is to reprint God's image upon the soul.

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms