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Definition of replicant in English:

replicant

noun ˈrɛplɪk(ə)ntˈreplikənt
  • (in science fiction) a genetically engineered or artificial being created as an exact replica of a particular human being.

    (科幻小说中的)复制人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gary Sinise plays a government scientist who may or may not be a replicant planted by a hostile alien race.
    • His obstacle is primarily his own conscience, as he comes to identify more closely with the replicants than with the police force, and the stakes are raised when Deckard falls in love with Rachel, one of his marks.
    • The story revolves around Harrison Ford's policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as replicants, in a dystopian version of Los Angeles.
    • As an aside, Ridley Scott last year came out and said that Deckard was actually a replicant, apparently putting to rest years of speculation.
    • So much of this is lost on the viewer looking only for replicants and unicorns.
    • As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
    • Their intention: kill him and replace him with a replicant who looks and acts perfectly human but has a bomb embedded in its chest that can cause mass destruction.
    • The director's cut is far heavier on the hints that Deckard is a replicant than is the original cut.
    • If you've seen BladeRunner, you know the short soliloquy at the end by one of the android replicants, Roy, as he's about to expire from a genetically programmed early death.
    • In the film, Harrison Ford plays a retired Blade Runner - a cop who hunts artificial humans, or replicants - who is brought back to kill four renegade replicants amid a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles.
    • When the replicants rebel, their leader, Roy Batty, demands of Tyrell, ‘I want more life, Father’.
    • PET Scans might be used to detect the equivalent of Blade Runner replicants.
    • In the movie Blade Runner the lead character falls in love with a beautiful female replicant, a human-like machine with an unknown but pre-set expiry date.
    • We believe that Deckard was not a replicant, although we never actually finished watching ‘Blade Runner.’
    • ‘There are no answers,’ the cloned replicant of a suicide says.
    • The FBI or CIA or NAACP or whomever clone the killer so they can use the replicant to hunt down his evil twin.
    • While Roy Batty gets most of the good moments in Blade Runner, somehow I find the scene with the other male replicant going through his photos very effective.
    • In the film, the replicants show strong feelings and attachments.
    • For every successful human replicant there is likely to be a clutch of monstrous failures.
    • In the film, retired cop Harrison Ford hunts down renegade human replicants amid a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles.

Origin

From replica + -ant: first used in the film Blade Runner (1982).

Definition of replicant in US English:

replicant

nounˈreplikənt
  • (in science fiction) a genetically engineered or artificial being created as an exact replica of a particular human being.

    (科幻小说中的)复制人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The director's cut is far heavier on the hints that Deckard is a replicant than is the original cut.
    • In the film, Harrison Ford plays a retired Blade Runner - a cop who hunts artificial humans, or replicants - who is brought back to kill four renegade replicants amid a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles.
    • PET Scans might be used to detect the equivalent of Blade Runner replicants.
    • If you've seen BladeRunner, you know the short soliloquy at the end by one of the android replicants, Roy, as he's about to expire from a genetically programmed early death.
    • So much of this is lost on the viewer looking only for replicants and unicorns.
    • Gary Sinise plays a government scientist who may or may not be a replicant planted by a hostile alien race.
    • We believe that Deckard was not a replicant, although we never actually finished watching ‘Blade Runner.’
    • The FBI or CIA or NAACP or whomever clone the killer so they can use the replicant to hunt down his evil twin.
    • When the replicants rebel, their leader, Roy Batty, demands of Tyrell, ‘I want more life, Father’.
    • The story revolves around Harrison Ford's policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humanoids, known as replicants, in a dystopian version of Los Angeles.
    • His obstacle is primarily his own conscience, as he comes to identify more closely with the replicants than with the police force, and the stakes are raised when Deckard falls in love with Rachel, one of his marks.
    • For every successful human replicant there is likely to be a clutch of monstrous failures.
    • In the movie Blade Runner the lead character falls in love with a beautiful female replicant, a human-like machine with an unknown but pre-set expiry date.
    • Their intention: kill him and replace him with a replicant who looks and acts perfectly human but has a bomb embedded in its chest that can cause mass destruction.
    • As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
    • As an aside, Ridley Scott last year came out and said that Deckard was actually a replicant, apparently putting to rest years of speculation.
    • ‘There are no answers,’ the cloned replicant of a suicide says.
    • In the film, retired cop Harrison Ford hunts down renegade human replicants amid a dark futuristic vision of Los Angeles.
    • In the film, the replicants show strong feelings and attachments.
    • While Roy Batty gets most of the good moments in Blade Runner, somehow I find the scene with the other male replicant going through his photos very effective.

Origin

From replica + -ant: first used in the film Blade Runner (1982).

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