copy
See also: copy.
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin cōpia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒpi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpi/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: copy
- Rhymes: -ɒpi
Noun edit
copy (plural copies)
- The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
- Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- 1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy:
- I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
- An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
- That handbag is a copy. You can tell because the buckle is different.
- (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
- (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
- (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
- (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
- Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
- A school work pad.
- Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy.
- A printed edition of a book or magazine.
- Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?
- The library has several copies of the Bible.
- Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
- (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
- His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:
- Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters.
- (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
- 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.
- (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- But in them nature's copy's not eterne
- (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- advance copy
- association copy
- backup copy
- carbon copy
- certified copy
- clean copy
- conformed copy
- courtesy copy
- deep copy
- duplicate copy
- fair copy
- hard copy
- image copy
- master copy
- microcopy
- office copy
- photocopy
- presentation copy
- promotional copy
- reading copy
- review copy
- scaled copy
- shallow copy
- soft copy
- time copy
- top copy
- xerox copy
Derived terms edit
- alibi copy
- armchair copy
- blind carbon copy
- blot one's copy book
- carbonless copy paper
- cop
- copier
- copious
- copyable
- copy area
- copy attack
- copybook
- copy boy
- copy cat
- copycat
- copy constructor
- copy desk
- copydesk
- copydom
- copy editor
- copy elision
- copy holder
- copy key
- copy machine
- copy menu
- copy number
- copy number polymorphism
- copy-number variant
- copy number variation
- copy-paste
- copy pronoun
- copy-protected
- copy protection
- copy room
- copy ruler
- copy shop
- copy song
- copy sort
- copy test
- copy typist
- copywrite
- copywriter
- DJ copy
- e-copy
- flap copy
- penalty copy
- photocopy
- pseudocopy
- shallow-copy
- telecopy
- wire copy
Translations edit
result of copying
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imitation, sometimes of inferior quality
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journalism: text to be typeset
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copy boy — see copy boy
marketing: output of copywriter
text of newspaper articles
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printed edition of a book or magazine
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writing paper of a particular size — see bastard
copyhold — see copyhold
genetics: result of gene or chromosomal duplication
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Verb edit
copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)
- (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
- Please copy these reports for me.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
- [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
- (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).
- Make sure you copy me on that important memo.
- (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
- First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.
- (transitive) To imitate.
- Don't copy my dance moves.
- Mom, he's copying me!
- 1793, Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy:
- We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.
- (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.
- Do you copy?
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:imitate
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
produce something identical
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place a copy in memory
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imitate
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radio term
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Chinese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
copy
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) copy (of a document or a file) (Classifier: 個／个 c; 份 c)
Verb edit
copy
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to copy
See also edit
- (clipping) cop
References edit
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copy
Finnish edit
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copy (slang)
- A copywriter.
- A copy (output of copywriter).
Declension edit
| Inflection of copy (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | copy | copyt | ||
| genitive | copyn | copyjen | ||
| partitive | copya | copyja | ||
| illative | copyyn | copyihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | copy | copyt | ||
| accusative | nom. | copy | copyt | |
| gen. | copyn | |||
| genitive | copyn | copyjen | ||
| partitive | copya | copyja | ||
| inessive | copyssa | copyissa | ||
| elative | copysta | copyista | ||
| illative | copyyn | copyihin | ||
| adessive | copylla | copyilla | ||
| ablative | copylta | copyilta | ||
| allative | copylle | copyille | ||
| essive | copyna | copyina | ||
| translative | copyksi | copyiksi | ||
| abessive | copytta | copyitta | ||
| instructive | — | copyin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Further reading edit
- “copy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02