CLONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clone mean? 

• CLONE (noun)
  The noun CLONE has 3 senses:

1. a person who is almost identical to another

2. a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction

3. an unauthorized copy or imitation

  Familiarity information: CLONE used as a noun is uncommon.

• CLONE (verb)
  The verb CLONE has 1 sense:

1. make multiple identical copies of

  Familiarity information: CLONE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is almost identical to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clone; dead ringer; ringer

Hypernyms ("clone" is a kind of...):

double; image; look-alike (someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

clon; clone

Hypernyms ("clone" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Derivation:

clone (make multiple identical copies of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An unauthorized copy or imitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clone; knockoff

Hypernyms ("clone" is a kind of...):

copy (a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing)

• CLONE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they clone    ... he / she / it clones   
Past simple: cloned   
Past participle: cloned   
-ing form: cloning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make multiple identical copies of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

people can clone a sheep nowadays

Hypernyms (to "clone" is one way to...):

copy; re-create (make a replica of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

clone (a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction)

 Context examples 

The PTCH gene is a cloned gene for Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome, associated with skin cancer and childhood brain cancer.

(Patched, NCI Thesaurus)

In reference to DNA: To clone a gene, one finds the region where the gene resides on the DNA and copies that section of the DNA using laboratory techniques.

(Clone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A preparation of T lymphocytes harvested from a patient with cancer and transduced with the PG13/Lnc8 retroviral vector, a clone of the LN vector that encodes the neomycin phosphotransferase gene.

(PG13/LNc8 Retroviral Transduced Cloned T-Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Clone cells also include populations of recombinant DNA molecules all carrying the same inserted sequence.

(Cell Clone, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Following second-strand synthesis, the double-stranded cDNAs are cloned.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

The MET oncogene is derived from a chromosomal rearrangement involving the MET and TPR (translocated promoter region) loci and is a cloned gene for Hereditary Papillary Renal Carcinoma.

(Oncogene MET, NCI Thesaurus)

A physical map based on an overlapping series of clones for the whole genome.

(Clone-Based Physical Map, NCI Thesaurus)

Inserts up to 100Kb can be cloned in PACs.

(P1-derived Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)

A breast carcinoma characterized by the presence of multiple cancerous tumors that originate from the same clone and are usually located in the same quadrant of the breast.

(Multifocal Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Cloned by its ability to interact with the death domain of nerve growth factor receptor.

(Nerve Growth Factor Receptor Associated Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)