COPY (copied)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copy mean? 

• COPY (noun)
  The noun COPY has 4 senses:

1. a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

2. a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing

3. matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials

4. material suitable for a journalistic account

  Familiarity information: COPY used as a noun is uncommon.

• COPY (verb)
  The verb COPY has 4 senses:

1. copy down as is

2. reproduce someone's behavior or looks

3. reproduce or make an exact copy of

4. make a replica of

  Familiarity information: COPY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

copy; transcript

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

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

copy (copy down as is)

copyist (someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A thing made to be similar or identical to another thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the clone was a copy of its ancestor

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

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copy"):

photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)

anamorphism; anamorphosis (a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner)

xerox; xerox copy (a copy made by a xerographic copier)

triplicate (one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly)

replica; replication; reproduction (copy that is not the original; something that has been copied)

quadruplicate (any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly)

print (a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it))

modification (slightly modified copy; not an exact copy)

miniature; toy (a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size)

clone; knockoff (an unauthorized copy or imitation)

imitation (something copied or derived from an original)

autotype; facsimile (an exact copy or reproduction)

duplicate; duplication (a copy that corresponds to an original exactly)

cast; casting (object formed by a mold)

carbon; carbon copy (a copy made with carbon paper)

Derivation:

copy (make a replica of)

copy (reproduce someone's behavior or looks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

copy; written matter

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

text; textual matter (the words of something written)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copy"):

dump ((computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs)

fair copy (a clean copy of a corrected draft)

filler (copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Material suitable for a journalistic account

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

catastrophes make good copy

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

material (information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form)

Holonyms ("copy" is a substance of...):

journalism; news media (newspapers and magazines collectively)

• COPY (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Copy down as is

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The students were made to copy the alphabet over and over

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

write (mark or trace on a surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "copy"):

recopy (copy again)

copy out (copy very carefully and as accurately as possible)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

copy (a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record))

copying (an act of copying)

copyist (someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reproduce someone's behavior or looks

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

copy; imitate; simulate

Context example:

Children often copy their parents or older siblings

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

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "copy"):

conform to; follow (behave in accordance or in agreement with)

emulate (strive to equal or match, especially by imitating)

follow; take after (imitate in behavior; take as a model)

model; pattern (plan or create according to a model or models)

mime; mimic (imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect)

take off (mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner)

mock (imitate with mockery and derision)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

copying (an act of copying)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reproduce or make an exact copy of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

copy; replicate

Context example:

copy the genetic information

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

double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat; replicate (make or do or perform again)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a replica of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

copy; re-create

Context example:

re-create a picture by Rembrandt

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

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "copy"):

imitate (make a reproduction or copy of)

trace (copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of)

back up (make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy)

hectograph (copy on a duplicator)

clone (make multiple identical copies of)

mimeo; mimeograph (print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph)

roneo (make copies on a Roneograph)

manifold (make multiple copies of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

copier (apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material)

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

copying (an act of copying)

copyist (someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts)

 Context examples 

The conversion of CTP to its analog, ddhCTP, throws a monkey wrench into virus' ability to copy its genome.

(Scientists Discover How Antiviral Gene Works, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

First, the gene's DNA sequence is copied into RNA, a similar but less stable molecule.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

Mutations in certain parts of mitochondrial DNA were more likely to be transmitted, such as those in the so-called D-loop region, which controls how mitochondrial DNA copies itself.

(Interplay between mitochondria and the nucleus may have implications for changing cell’s ‘batteries’, University of Cambridge)

Every person has two copies, or alleles, T and C, of each gene, inheriting one copy from each parent.

(Researchers link single gene variation to obesity, NIH)

The surface of the flavivirus is composed of a shell made of 180 copies of both an envelope glycoprotein and 1 of 2 other proteins anchored in a lipid membrane.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

Bioinformatics expert identified a subset of one-to-one corresponding genes (single-copy orthologs) in the liverwort and wild tobacco and analysed their level of activity during the infection.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Gaucher disease occurs when a person inherits 2 defective copies of the GBA gene, which codes for glucocerebrosidase.

(Molecule may impact Gaucher, Parkinson’s disease, NIH)

However, she also had two copies of the APOE3ch gene variant, while no other affected family member carried two copies of this variant.

(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)

While common genetic variations linked to schizophrenia individually exert only tiny effects on risk, having just one mutant copy of SETD1A is sufficient to confer a large increase in disease risk.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Transposons, more commonly called jumping genes, are mobile snippets of DNA code that can copy themselves into new positions within the genome - the genetic code of an organism.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)