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copy English

Meaning copy meaning

What does copy mean?
Definitions in simple English

copy Noun

— A copy of something looks or acts like it. They took the diamond and replaced it with a cheap copy. — A copy of a book, newspaper, painting, etc. is one of many that are exactly the same. Please bring me the copies of those reports.

copy Verb

— If you copy something, you make something look exactly the same as it. Good artists copy. Great artists steal. She copies the tests on the photocopier.

copy

— noun (= transcript) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) — noun a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing she made a copy of the designer dress the clone was a copy of its ancestor — verb copy down as is The students were made to copy the alphabet over and over — verb (= imitate) reproduce someone's behavior or looks The mime imitated the passers-by Children often copy their parents or older siblings — noun matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials — noun material suitable for a journalistic account catastrophes make good copy — verb (= re-create) make a replica of copy that drawing re-create a picture by Rembrandt — verb (= replicate) reproduce or make an exact copy of replicate the cell copy the genetic information

Synonyms copy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as copy?

copy English » English

imitate duplicate mimic replica transcribe transcript imitation reproduction reproduce facsimile photocopy fake ape counterfeit simulate emulate transcription replicate mock follow specimen record manuscript clone trace pattern model compare write down write print photostat make a copy forge counterpart xerox tracing rewrite replication reduplicate re-create make a copy of likeness issue image echo crib copying cheat written matter

Topics copy topics

What do people use copy to talk about?
States Quality Type, kind

Copy
States Quality Type, kind

Imitate
States Quality Type, kind Compare

Same

Conjugation copy conjugation

How do you conjugate copy?

copy · verb

Examples copy examples

How do I use copy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Can you make me a copy?
Please send me another copy.
That's a copy.
The copy agrees with the original.
The author presented a copy of his latest book to me.
This is an exact copy of the original.
Give me a copy of this book.
Make a copy of this report.
Please copy this page.
That copy differs from the original.
That painting is a copy.
Subtle differences in tone discriminate the original from the copy.
The original and the copy are easily distinguished.
The picture you are looking at is a copy of a Picasso.
I am sending a copy of my letter to you.
Please copy this.
Compare the copy with the original.

Movie subtitles

Who would like their very own copy of the Book of Mormon?
Yeah, copy that.
Yeah, I've sent a copy through to the station.
Oh. Save me a copy.
It's a myth that locksmiths can't copy these.
You don't need to copy my driver's license, my credit cards.
A copy, please.
This copy allows us to use the original tinting.
From the silent film produced in Munich, Nathan the Wise, only one copy has been found.
In 1997, the Munich Film Museum obtained a copy.
The intertitles were - when available - taken from the copy of the Bundesarchiv- Filmarchiv or corrected electronically.
The missing scenes were found in a fragment of a copy with french intertitles, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana made available. The german intertitles correspond as far as possible to the original negative.
They were complemented with translations from the french copy.
I sent Berryman a copy last week, and his secretary wrote me a nice note saying they were studying my plans.
It was published in three thick volumes. A copy can be found at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen.
I see now, Emperor. Your ability is to copy the powers of others.
I make a copy, leaving the donor's power in place, and so, they never realize it's mine.
Have you birds got your copy ready?
He permitted you to copy his dispatches.
A carbon copy!
I got all your copy.
I'm having a copy made for you.
I appreciate that spirit of fair play, Mr. Haggerty. but you see, my office cabled me a copy of your little item.
Here, son. Tell Douglas to print up one copy of the evening edition.
One copy?
There was an unopened copy of the Evening Chronicle found on the divan.
Okay. Copy that.
This film has been restored in 35 mm from a special copy in 9.5 mm.
I gave all the reporters a copy of my speech.
Yeah, I got all your copy.
Tell Douglas to print up one copy of the evening edition.
Frankly, V.S., well, I think the value lies in the copy and not the picture.
Yes, but how do you know they'll read the copy?

News and current affairs

As the world's leading-edge economy, America faces the hardest work in ensuring growth, for it must create - not only copy and adapt - new technologies, better forms of capital, and more productive business organizations.
The story of an erratic kid from Brooklyn taking on the Soviet empire in its national sport made good copy for journalists, who understood the significance of the event.
Without its gradual imposition, an Asian Union could at best remain only a pale and hollow copy of its European model.
What if Russia were to inadvertently use a copy of the film that was pirated, as one imagines is true of most copies floating around in Russia?
Financial innovators might not incur these costs if they expect that others will copy their ideas at little or no cost to themselves as soon as they are shown to work.
While Wikipedians do not need to pass around copies of their text - everyone owns a virtual copy - Wikipedia 's content policy remains deeply medieval in spirit.
When people in a country begin to illicitly copy the intellectual achievements of a fellow citizen, IPR becomes a real domestic political issue dividing special interest groups.
He suggested that I produce a typed copy, and provided me with the office of a general who was away.
It is less important, for instance, to steal a copy of North Korea's bomb designs than to know the morale and capability of its scientists.
In both organisms, if an extra copy of SIR2 is added by genetic intervention, the life span is extended.
Rather than slavishly copy the United States, I think most countries should have a chief information officer - someone who thinks about information as an agent of change, not just as an agent of efficiency.
One can copy movements and motor acts without understanding their meaning.
You select the book you need, push a button, and the machine will print and bind your copy.
They could only pretend to judge events and values on their own; in reality, they would merely copy the rough and simplified opinions of the masses.
Yet there he lay, and with a copy of my book The Man Died beside him.
One is that, if the current process fails, Obama might issue his own plan, which many expect would be a near-carbon copy of the proposal made by Bill Clinton's administration in its last days ten years ago.
Imagine getting a copy of Tolstoi's War and Peace in Russian and (assuming you can't read Russian) trying to figure out the story.
I have a framed copy of the Act of Parliament by Dail Eireann that was needed.
First, software with a slight edge tends to get a significantly greater share of the available market; and, second, the available market is global, because it costs so little to make an extra copy and send it anywhere in the world.
If a left party's economic policy is perceived as a weak copy of the right's agenda, the poorest segments of the population will gravitate to chauvinist forces and their false promises of protection from the consequences of globalization.
The EU would do well, in this regard, to copy a page from the history of the reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II.

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