Word Finder - copy

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The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.

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Please bring me the copies of those reports.

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An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.

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That handbag is a copy. You can tell because the buckle is different.

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The text that is to be typeset.

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A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.

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The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.

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The text of newspaper articles.

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Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.

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A school work pad.

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Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy.

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A printed edition of a book or magazine.

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Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?

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Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.

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That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.

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His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.

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An abundance or plenty of anything.

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Copyhold; tenure; lease

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(genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

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To produce an object identical to a given object.

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Please copy these reports for me.

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To give or transmit a copy to (a person).

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Make sure you copy me on that important memo.

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To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

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First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.

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To imitate.

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Don't copy my dance moves.

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To receive a transmission successfully.

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Do you copy?

But we have a copy of it.

Each of those new cells has a new copy of your DNA.

Dean started to copy the names but Monica stopped him.

That was why he asked for a copy of them.

Byrne could read his own copy for at least another month.

A small door—possibly leading to a bathroom or closet—was closed and blocked by one of Ully.s science toys the size of a copy machine.

His best known work was Die Betooverde Wereld (1691), or The World Bewitched (1695; one volume of an English translation from a French copy), in which he examined critically the phenomena generally ascribed to spiritual agency, and attacked the belief in sorcery and "possession" by the devil, whose very existence he questioned.

Like the college buildings, they are almost an exact copy of those of New College, mutatis mutandis.

Pick up a copy of your schedule as you head out.

He had not taken steps to publish this, but by some unknown channel a copy reached the council, and it could not be ignored.

The earliest known edition of the Compendious Book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs (of which an unique copy is extant) dates back to 1567, though the contents were probably published in broad sheets during John Wedderburn's lifetime.

Perhaps, if you would send a copy of this to the head of the Cambridge School, it might enlighten his mind on a few subjects, on which he seems to be in total darkness just now....

The original story was read to her from a copy of "Andersen's Stories," published by Leavitt & Allen Bros., and may be found on p. 97 of Part I. in that volume.

Each was nearly a copy of the others, unremarkable in its cold formality.

Dean explained how Annie Quincy too had ended her life, in a carbon copy fashion, with Edith mimicking the century-old life to its final extreme.

She has since secured and forwarded to me a copy of the first edition.

I saw the copy Cynthia made for him in his and Edith's room.

What happened to your copy of the notebook Cynthia made for you?

Edith had to know about Annie's death—otherwise her carbon copy suicide is just too much of a coincidence.

Let them have the copy, for whatever it's worth to them.

He fished around until he found his copy of the bicycle magazine he'd seen at the Byrne home.

I was told that it had been printed, but that every copy had been at the same time burnt at Rome, and that Galileo had been himself condemned to some penalty" 14 He has also seen a copy of Galileo's condemnation .

Two years after his marriage he became possessed of a copy of the Kabbalistic " Bible " - the Zohar of Moses de Leon.

The mosaic representing Christ surrounded by the four-and-twenty elders," which originally lined the cupola, had almost entirely perished by the 19th century, but was restored in 1882 from a copy made in the 17th century.

Those who believe the " Declaration " to be spurious argue that survivors remembered only one such document, that the Resolutions might easily be thought of as a declaration of independence, that Governor Martin in all probability had knowledge only of these and not of the alleged " Declaration," and that the dates of publication in the Raleigh and Charleston newspapers, and the politics of those papers, show that the Resolutions are authentic. In July 1905 there appeared in Collier's Weekly (New York) what purported to be a facsimile reproduction of a copy of the Cape Fear Mercury which was referred to by Governor Martin and which contained the " Declaration "; but this was proved a forgery.'

Only two of the volumes are known to be in existence; one is a copy of John of Salisbury's works in the British Museum, and the other some theological treatises by Anselm and others in the Bodleian.

In 1902, an American named Walter Sutton noticed that chromosomes duplicated themselves before cells divided so that each new cell had a full copy of the chromosomes.

There were biographical forms and consent forms she hadn't really read, all signed in a loopy, angry signature, and a copy of Toby's birth certificate.

I might make 'em a copy, but the original stays in Ouray.

Did you get her to send a copy of the registration card so we could check the signature?

Scott Muldrow must have given Dad a copy of the map.

But the tale is not contemporary, and is an obvious copy of the story told of Jacques de Molay, grand-master of the Temple, and Philippe Le Bel.

A third theory, advanced by Professor Witherow and others, is that the modern elder is intended to be, and should be, recognized as a copy of the scriptural presbyter.

Furtwangler proposes to find in a statue of which the head is at Bologna, and the body at Dresden, a copy of the Lemnian Athena of Pheidias; but his arguments (Masterpieces, at the beginning) are anything but conclusive.

Apellicon's library contained a remarkable old copy of the Iliad.

Each took a copy and one was held by the scribe to be stored in the archives.

This machine reproduces a copy of the original transmitting slip, which can be passed on to any other Wheatstone circuit or can be run through a " Creed printer," which is a pneumatic machine actuating a typewriter by means of valves.

Although no contemporary copy of Bagimond's Roll is known to exist, at least three documents give particulars of the taxation of the Church of Scotland in the 16th century, which are based upon the original roll.

Its most important feature on the theological as distinct from the political side was the endeavour to promote the circulation of the Bible in the vernacular, by encouraging translation and procuring an order in 1538 that a copy of the Bible in English should be set up in every church in a convenient place for reading.

Bernini showed his design to Wren, but would not let him copy it, though, as he said, he "would have given his skin" to be allowed to do so.

A note of Fox, however, on the margin of a copy of The Decline and Fall records a very distinct remembrance of the historian's previous vituperation of the ministry; within a fortnight of the date of his acceptance of office, he is there alleged to have said that " there was no salvation for this country until six heads of the principal persons in administration were laid upon the table."

As for the " Declaration," the original records of the transactions of Mecklenburg county were destroyed by fire in 1800, but it is claimed that a copy of the " Declaration " was made from memory in the same year, and when, in 1819, a controversy had arisen as to where the movement for independence originated, this copy was published, first in the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette and then in many other newspapers.

It is noteworthy, however, that Gerbert never writes for a copy of one of the Christian fathers, his aim being, seemingly, to preserve the fragments of a fast-perishing secular Latin literature.

Of this work, which exists in only one imperfect copy, the later portion was edited by Baethgen in 2884, and the earlier by Lamy in 1888.

The whole aim of Terence was to present a faithful copy of the life, manners, modes of thought and expression which had been drawn from reality a century before his time by the writers of the New Comedy of Athens.

A copy of the orders and an explanatory letter were in fact despatched to the II.

An excuse was provided in the fact that the poet had a copy of some unpublished poems of Frederick's, and as soon as Voltaire arrived hands were laid on him, at first with courtesy enough.

The Company of Parish Clerks is named in an ordinance of 1581 (of which there is a copy in the Record Office) as the body responsible for the bills, and their duties were then said to be " according to the Order in that behalf heretofore provided."

Chosen to represent the provincial synod of Anjou, Touraine and Maine at the national synod held in 1631 at Charenton, he was appointed as orator to present to the king "The Copy of their Complaints and Grievances for the Infractions and Violations of the Edict of Nantes."

He made no attempt at a fair copy, and, when fresh information occurred to him, inserted it at random.