ditto
Part of speech: noun
adv
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Etymology: First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography.
The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator.
Inflected forms:
form: dittos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dittoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dittos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dittoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dittoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dittoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
pos: noun
examples: [...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…]
[…]a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners:[…]
Well say he's got the constitution of a dinosaur, recuperative powers ditto. And as we both know, I'm a bright young medic with a miraculous touch. Well why then, when I returned, there wasn't a trace of that wound on his forehead. Not even a bruise. It was like he had never been injured.
The opening shot of "Crystal Skull" shows the playful side of director Steven Spielberg, who seems to have a weak spot for cute animals. See "AI Artificial Intelligence" for Exhibit A. Ditto for executive producer George Lucas. See "Return of the Jedi" for Exhibit B.
He has created for himself a honed, primed-for-victory body and is working hard on a ditto mind.
gloss: The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
pos: noun
gloss: A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
pos: noun
tags: historical
in-plural
gloss: A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.
Mr. Zappadia gave each student a ditto of a black-and-white cow.
gloss: A copy; an imitation.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.
Last year, Argenta-Oreana blanked the Chiefs 23-0 in a second-round game Dee-Mack coach Jim McDonald said was "pretty much a ditto" of what transpired Saturday.
The intent of the policy, she said, is "not to put everybody in a ditto environment," where all are expected to look and act exactly like all others.
gloss: As said before, likewise.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank.
Some of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts. Ditto many members of staff.
gloss: To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
gloss: To make a copy using a ditto machine.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
examples: But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee.
I was going to join a commune of my friends. I sort of issued a declaration of independence which I dittoed up and put in everybody's mail box in the department.
gloss: Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.
pos: intj
examples: I'm really busy today! —Ditto!
"Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?" "Ditto," said Tweedledum. "Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.
Derived words: dittohead
dittoism
dittology
ditto master
dittoship
ditto suit
ditto worksheet
suit of dittoes
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: копие
roman: kopie
lang: Dutch
word: kopietje
lang: Finnish
word: kopsu
lang: French
word: copie
lang: German
word: Dublikat
lang: German
word: Kopie
lang: Hungarian
word: másolat
lang: Italian
word: fac-simile
lang: Russian
word: ко́пия
roman: kópija
lang: Swedish
word: kopia
lang: Turkish
word: kopya