Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that closely resembles another.
- noun One that has the same functions and characteristics as another; a corresponding person or thing.
- noun A duplicate of a legal document.
- noun One of two parts that fit and complete each other.
- noun One that serves as a complement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A correspondent part; a part that answers to another, as the several parts or copies of an indenture corresponding to the original; a copy; a duplicate.
- noun The complement, as a certificate of hiring given by a tenant to his landlord on receiving from him a certificate of letting, or a bought note given to the seller on receiving the sold note.
- noun A person or thing exactly resembling another or corresponding to another in appearance, character, position, influence, and the like; a representative; a match; a fellow.
- noun One of two parts which fit each other, as a cipher and its key, or a seal and its impression; hence, a thing that supplements another thing or completes it, or a person having qualities wanting in another, and such as compensate for the other's deficiencies.
- noun In music, the part to be arranged or used in connection with another: as, the bass is the counterpart to the treble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
- noun (Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.
- noun A person who closely resembles another.
- noun A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Either of two
parts thatfit together, orcomplement one another. - noun law A
duplicate of a legal document. - noun One which
resembles another - noun One which has
corresponding functions orcharacteristics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a duplicate copy
- noun a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
Etymologies
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Examples
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My favorite thing about her is that when she first launched I always thought she was going to have a huge, successful, long career, while her label counterpart Rihanna was an annoying one-hit wonder.
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I am posted to be working with the local district hospital here in Banyo and my counterpart is the head nurse who is originally from the western part of Cameroon.
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I am posted to be working with the local district hospital here in Banyo and my counterpart is the head nurse who is originally from the western part of Cameroon.
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And while some may gripe that he sometimes loses his soul when he achieves perfect happiness, his evil, soulless, counterpart is even more entertaining to watch.
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And while some may gripe that he sometimes loses his soul when he achieves perfect happiness, his evil, soulless, counterpart is even more entertaining to watch.
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On Macs, The Boy Genius Report recommends iTuneMyWalkman for a similar experience to iTunes Agent, although that software actually looks more integrated and easier to manage than its Windows counterpart from the screenshots.
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She accesses a shortcut to achieving this goal when she meets her counterpart from a parallel Magical Kingdom, Princess Erika.
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Story: In New York City, an office building is violently jolted, leading the Fringe team to discover a lone survivor — well, technically, a pair of survivors, as the man in the wreckage has physically merged with his counterpart from the alternate reality.
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She accesses a shortcut to achieving this goal when she meets her counterpart from a parallel Magical Kingdom, Princess Erika.
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She accesses a shortcut to achieving this goal when she meets her counterpart from a parallel Magical Kingdom, Princess Erika.
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