Reduplicating

Word REDUPLICATING
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Definitions and meanings of "Reduplicating"

What do we mean by reduplicating?

To double again: to multiply: to repeat.

To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.

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The word "reduplicating" in example sentences

He is reduplicating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon right in his own backyard! ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)

However, science, in particular quantum mechanics, is really nothing but our new mythology and our new high priests are the particle physicists who fire subatomic particles through highly expensive tubes, hoping to come close to reduplicating the theoretical Big Bang of the origin of the universe. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the other hand, i-reduplication can then be blamed on the schwa found in the middle of the Late IE period which would be a natural vowel to initially use when reduplicating a present form to convey the iteration of an action. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The PCR method can be used for reduplicating a segment of a DNA molecule, e.g. from a blood sample. ❋ Unknown (1993)

The monosyllabic or reduplicating word of native growth, without contact with Latin or Greek, meets with little favor. ❋ Unknown (1969)

-- In the following verbs the perfects were originally reduplicated, but have lost the reduplicating syllable: -- per-cellō percellere perculī perculsus _strike down_ findō findere fidī fissus _split_ scindō scindere scidī scissus _tear apart_ tollō tollere sus-tulī sublātus _remove_ ❋ Charles E. Bennett (N/A)

John Lavington, during his nephew's blundering attempt to drop the wax and apply the seal, continued to fasten on him a look of half-amused affection; while the man behind the chair, so oddly reduplicating the lines of his features and figure, turned on the boy a face of pale hostility. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)

Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears! ❋ Various (N/A)

Initially reduplicating are, for instance, Shilh ggen “to be sleeping” (from gen “to sleep”); Ful pepeu-’do “liar” (i.e., “one who always lies”), plural fefeu-’be (from fewa “to lie”); Bontoc Igorot anak “child, ” ananak “children”; kamu-ek “I hasten, ” kakamu-ek “I hasten more”; Tsimshian gyad “person, ” gyigyad “people”; Nass gyibayuk “to fly, ” gyigyibayuk “one who is flying. ❋ Unknown (1921)

In such Greek forms, nevertheless, as pepomph-a “I have sent, ” as contrasted with pemp-o “I send, ” with its trebly symbolic change of the radical element (reduplicating pe -, change of e to o, change of p to ph), it is rather the peculiar alternation of the first person singular - a of the perfect with the - o of the present that gives them their inflective cast. ❋ Unknown (1921)

So with reduplicating speech she conveyed intelligence to his mind. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)

All was motionless and silent as a stereoscopic picture; the rocketing palms bursting into sprays of emerald green, the n'sambyas with their trumpet-like yellow blossoms, the fern fronds reduplicating themselves in the water's glass, all and each lent their motionless beauty to the completion of the perfect picture. ❋ Unknown (1907)

It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth! ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)

John Lavington, during his nephew's clumsy attempt to drop the wax and apply the seal, continued to fasten on him a look of half-amused affection; while the man behind the chair, so oddly reduplicating the lines of his features and figure, turned on the boy a face of pale hostility. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

No amount of after manipulation could condone so vicious a slaughter of space and line opportunities which the background, with its reduplicating edge, accomplishes. ❋ Henry Rankin Poore (1899)

Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears! what jubilant hymns to Adonais would have thrilled the illumined air! ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)

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