Counterpart
['kaʊntəpɑːt] or ['kaʊntɚpɑrt]
Definition
(noun.) a duplicate copy.
(noun.) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another.
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
(n.) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.
(n.) A person who closely resembles another.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Sean
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Corresponding part.[2]. (Law.) Duplicate, copy.[3]. Correlative, complement, supplement, reverse.[4]. Match, fellow, mate, tally, twin, the very image.
Inputed by Erma
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Match, fellow, tally, brother, twin, copy
ANT:Correlative, complement, supplement, opponent, counteragent, reverse, obverse,opposite, antithesis, contrast, contradiction
Typed by Larry
Examples
- This must be a strange night to you, standing alone here with your counterpart on these street stones? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With Hegel the necessity of finding some working concrete counterpart of the inaccessible Absolute took an institutional, rather than symbolic, form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So far as regarded Rachel Verinder's pecuniary interests, it was, word for word, the exact counterpart of the first Will. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But these ideals had no counterpart in actual life. Plato. The Republic.
- The next step is to secure from this master record a metallic counterpart or shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The upward struggle of the English democracy to education, to political recognition, had no Irish counterpart. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The doctrine of formal discipline in education is the natural counterpart of the scholastic method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Each was a counterpart of the other and contained these words in a solid, plain hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For you can only revolt in pure reaction from her-and to be her opposite is to be her counterpart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Geography, of course, has its educative influence in a counterpart connection of natural facts with social events and their consequences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This scheme denotes, of course, simply a perpetuation of the older social division, with its counterpart intellectual and moral dualisms. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When the mental is regarded as a self-contained separate realm, a counterpart fate befalls bodily activity and movements. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is a second, I said, which is the counterpart of the one already named. Plato. The Republic.
- It has no counterpart in the world! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is not necessary to consider in detail the educational counterparts of the various defects found in these various types of philosophy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Is it not plain, from this, that the histories of Emmeline and Cassy may have many counterparts? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Peggy