Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a reply.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who replies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
replicative - noun science fiction An
android that is an exactcopy of a specifichuman , or is indistinguishable from a human - noun archaic One who
replies .
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Examples
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(Conceptually, gene duplication is simply the duplication of a strand of information, so there is no logical requirement that this strand actually be a gene; it could be anything that conceivably encodes for a replicant, which is then subject to mutation and selection.)
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"I still don't buy that Ford's Deckard is a replicant, which is more a case of director Ridley Scott trying to get the unicorn back in the barn once the door had shut than anything concrete in the film, but you can speculate more easily on the notion now."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"I still don't buy that Ford's Deckard is a replicant, which is more a case of director Ridley Scott trying to get the unicorn back in the barn once the door had shut than anything concrete in the film, but you can speculate more easily on the notion now."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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In retrospect, maybe it was a mistake to give a phone a name reminiscent of the line of "replicant" androids hunted down in the movie Blade Runner.
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In retrospect, maybe it was a mistake to give a phone a name reminiscent of the line of "replicant" androids hunted down in the movie Blade Runner.
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Apparently, he's had a party switch since wrapping up the Republican nomination on Thursday with "replicant" Mitt Romney dropping out of the presidential race.
Fox News Labels McCain a Democrat Ron Buckmire 2008
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Topics discussed include “Californian hydropolitics, the line between architecture and photography, 'replicant' landscapes, the dusty fate of human remains, Iceland, The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, Mars rovers, 9/11, and the aesthetic power of sterility.”
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Topics discussed include “Californian hydropolitics, the line between architecture and photography, 'replicant' landscapes, the dusty fate of human remains, Iceland, The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, Mars rovers, 9/11, and the aesthetic power of sterility.”
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* I also remember this wonderful comic from Starlog magazine that showed Deckard having just blown away C-3PO, as a distraught Luke Skywalker looked on and said, "Han, what do you mean, 'replicant'?"
Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Jeff 2007
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* I also remember this wonderful comic from Starlog magazine that showed Deckard having just blown away C-3PO, as a distraught Luke Skywalker looked on and said, "Han, what do you mean, 'replicant'?"
Archive 2007-11-01 Jeff 2007
treeseed commented on the word replicant
A replicant is a bioengineered or biorobotic being created in the film Blade Runner (1982).
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February 6, 2008