Duplicate in a sentence as a noun

I wish I could downvote this as -1, duplicate.

He wished he could downvote it as a duplicate, that is, that it hadn't happened again.

There's a little bit more going on with the expensive ones than just being a heap of plastic that you can duplicate at home, I think.

Duplicate in a sentence as a verb

We had to facilitate them to set up a duplicate port to tap in to monitor that customers traffic.

So, for example, one has to duplicate code between multiple spreadsheets rather than being able to import it as one would expect.

The PDF menu already looks good, they already put a ton of time into it to get it exactly right, and they don't want to duplicate that effort.

Duplicate in a sentence as an adjective

> The problem in the research community is that scientists have little incentive to duplicate earlier work just to check if it’s correct.

It's so bad that it has become common behavior to copy/paste the report to openradar and then have other developers submit duplicate reports as a way to "upvote" a bug.

What if I want to "duplicate" a file but not save it anywhere, because I just want to mess around with changes for a while?I've been using Lion since it came out, and I don't really know the correct answers to any of those questions.

Duplicate definitions

noun

something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency"

See also: extra

noun

a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files"

See also: duplication

verb

make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

See also: reduplicate double repeat replicate

verb

duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

See also: twin parallel

verb

make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?"

verb

increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years"

See also: double

adjective

identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

adjective

being two identical

See also: matching twinned