Word Meanings - DUPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of duping.

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• DUPABLE
  Capable of being duped.
• DUPERY
  The act or practice of duping.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• DUPION
  A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• DUPER
  One who dupes another.
• DUP
  To open; as, to dup the door. Shak.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• DUPLICATIVE
  Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." Carpenter. (more info) 1. Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.
• DUPLICITY
  1. Doubleness; a twofold state. Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts. 2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists
• DUPLE
  Double. Duple ratio , that in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc.
• DUPE
  One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer. (more info) origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught. Cf.
• DUPLICATURE
  A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.
• DUPLICATION
  The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. Carpenter. Duplication of the cube , the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube. (more info)
• DUPLEX
  Double; twofold. Duplex escapement, a peculiar kind of watch escapement, in which the scape-wheel has two sets of teeth. See Escapement. -- Duplex lathe, one for turning off, screwing, and surfacing, by means of two cutting tools, on opposite sides
• DUPLICATE
  Double; twofold. Duplicate proportion or ratio , the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of
• REDUPLICATION
  The doubling of a stem or syllable , with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci. (more info) 1. The act of doubling, or the
• CONDUPLICATE
  Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.
• AVOIRDUPOIS
  where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are
• REDUPLICATIVE
  Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.
• REDUPLICATE
  Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the (more info) 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• SUBDUPLICATE
  Expressed by the square root; -- said of ratios. Subduplicate ratio, the ratio of the square roots, or the square root of a ratio; thus, the subduplicate ratio of a to b is *a to *b, or *a/b.
• INDUPLICATE
  Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation. Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation.
• CONDUPLICATION
  A doubling together or folding; a duplication.