copy
See also: copy.
English
Alternative forms
- coppy, coppie, copie (all obsolete)
Etymology
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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒpi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpi/
- Hyphenation: copy
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpi
Noun
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
- 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), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, (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.
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- (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 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- But in them nature's copy's not eterne
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- (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
Synonyms
- duplicate
- facsimile
- image
- likeness
- reduplication
- replica
- replication
- reproduction
- simulacrum
- fake
- forgery
- phony
- sham
Antonyms
- original
Hyponyms
- advance 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
- top copy
- xerox copy
Derived terms
- alibi copy
- armchair copy
- blind carbon copy
- blot one's copy book
- carbonless copy paper
- cop
- copier
- copious
- copyable
- copy area
- copy book
- copy boy
- copycat
- copy cat
- 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 sort
- copy test
- copy typist
- copywrite
- copywriter
- DJ copy
- e-copy
- flap copy
- penalty copy
- photocopy
- pseudocopy
- shallow-copy
- wire copy
Translations
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
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text of newspaper articles
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school work pad
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printed edition of a book or magazine
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writing paper of a particular size — see bastard
that which is to be imitated
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abundance or plenty
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copyhold — see copyhold
genetics: result of gene or chromosomal duplication
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Verb
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
- See also Thesaurus:imitate
Derived terms
- copyable
- copy-edit
- copy-on-write proxy
- copy-paste
- deep-copyblind-copy
Related terms
- copy and paste
- copy down
- copy out
Translations
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
Etymology
From English copy.
Pronunciation
Noun
copy
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) copy (of a document or a file) (Classifier: 個／个 c; 份 c)
Verb
copy
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to copy
See also
- (clipping) cop
References
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sopɪ]
Noun
copy
- nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of cop
Finnish
Etymology
From English copy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkopy/, [ˈko̞py]
- Syllabification(key): co‧py
Noun
copy
- (slang) A copywriter.
- (slang) A copy (output of copywriter).
Declension
| 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 | |
| instructive | — | copyin | |
| abessive | copytta | copyitta | |
| comitative | — | copyineen | |
| Possessive forms of copy (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | copyni | copymme |
| 2nd person | copysi | copynne |
| 3rd person | copynsa | |