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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copy, reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, analogue, carbon, carbon copy, chip off the old block, clone, companion, coordinate, copycat, correlate, counterfeit, counterpart, counterscript, dead ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplication, facsimile, fake, fellow, germination, imitation, knockoff, likeness, lookalike, match, mate, obverse, parallel, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate, reciprocal, recurrence, repetition, replica, replication, repro, ringer, second, similarity, spitting image, stat, twin |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
| Antonyms: | archetype, model, original, prototype |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equivalent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equal, counterpart |
| Synonyms: | carbon copy, correspondent, dead ringer, ditto, like, match, obverse, opposite, parallel, peer, reciprocal, same difference, spitting image, substitute, twin |
| Antonyms: | difference |
| Main Entry: | facsimile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon, carbon copy, chip off old block, clone, copy, copycat, dead ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplicate, knock-off, likeness, look-alike, mimeo, miniature, mirror, photocopy, photostat, print, reduplication, replica, replication, repro, ringer, spitting image, stat, transcript, twin |
| Antonyms: | original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fellow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male or female colleague, friend |
| Synonyms: | assistant, associate, cohort, companion, compeer, comrade, concomitant, confrere, consort, coordinate, counterpart*, coworker, double, duplicate, equal, instructor, lecturer, match, mate, member, partner, peer, professor, reciprocal, twin |
| Antonyms: | enemy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counterfeiting; counterfeit item |
| Synonyms: | bogus*, carbon copy, carbon, cheat, coining, copy, fabrication, fake, faking, falsification, fraudulence, imitating, imitation, imposition, imposture, lookalike, phony, pseudo, sham*, twin, workalike |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | identical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike, equal |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon copy, corresponding, dead ringer, ditto*, double, duplicate, equivalent, exact, identic, indistinguishable, interchangeable, like, like two peas in a pod, look-alike, matching, one and the same, same, same difference, selfsame, spitting image, tantamount, twin, very, very same |
| Antonyms: | different, dissimilar, distinct, diverse, opposite, unequal, unlike |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indistinguishable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike |
| Synonyms: | duplicate, equivalent, identic, identical, like, same, tantamount, twin |
| Antonyms: | different, distinguishable, unalike, unlike |
| Main Entry: | like |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | similar |
| Synonyms: | according to, agnate, akin, alike, allied, allying, analogous, approximating, approximative, close, coextensive, cognate, commensurate, comparable, compatible, conforming, congeneric, congenerous, consistent, consonant, corresponding, double, equal, equaling, equivalent, homologous, identical, in the manner of, jibing, matching, much the same, near, not far from, not unlike, on the order of, parallel, related, relating, resembling, same, selfsame, such, twin, undifferentiated, uniform |
| Notes: | use 'like' when no verb follows; use 'as' when a clause follows (which has a subject and a verb) |
| Antonyms: | different, dissimilar, unlike |
| Main Entry: | look-alike |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone closely resembling another |
| Synonyms: | carbon copy, clone, copy, dead ringer, dead ringer, double, duplicate, impersonator, match, mirror image, replica, ringer, spitting image, spitting image, stand-in, twin |
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