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Copy   /kˈɑpi/   Listen
noun
Copy  n.  (pl. copies)  
1.
An abundance or plenty of anything. (Obs.) "She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus."
2.
An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue. "I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original."
3.
An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.
4.
That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation. "Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters."
5.
(print.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
6.
A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.
7.
Copyhold; tenure; lease. (Obs.)
Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.
Examined copies (Law), those which have been compared with the originals.
Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court.
Certified copies or Office copies, those which are made or attested by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially.
Synonyms: Imitation; transcript; duplicate; counterfeit.


verb
Copy  v. t.  (past & past part. copied; pres. part. copying)  
1.
To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; often with out, sometimes with off. "I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd have it copied." "Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance."
2.
To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life. "We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation."


Copy  v. i.  
1.
To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
2.
To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well. "Some... never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good things."





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"Copy" Quotes from Famous Books



... otherwise I might have remained incredulous. "These scarabs," he went on, "are from Birmingham, I know the glaze. That gold Egyptian ring, Queen TAIA's do you say, is Coptic, Cairo is full of them. That head of CAESAR is a copy from the one in ...
— Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892 • Various
... besides the daily transactions and observations throughout the whole voyage, a series of thirty-eight manuscript charts, views, and figures. The expression by me, which often occurs in it, and followed by the signature Abel Jansz Tasman, shows that if this were not his original journal, it is a copy from it: probably one made on board for the governor and council of Batavia. With this interesting document, and a translation made in 1776, by Mr. C. G. Woide, chaplain of His Majesty's Dutch chapel at St. James's, I was favoured by the Right Hon. ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... in, from errands of marketing, with a copy of the early special of the Signal, containing a description of the accident. Mrs. Tams had never before bought such a thing as a newspaper, but an acquaintance of hers who "stood the market" with tripe and chitterlings had ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... Gladstone, roused intelligent persons in England, and in Europe generally, to the atrocities perpetrated upon virtuous, loyal, and even illustrious subjects, in sheer wantonness of power, by the Neapolitan king. Lord Palmerston, then at the head of foreign affairs, sent a copy of the pamphlet to the English minister at every court of Europe, with the design of calling the attention of all civilized nations to the oppression with which the people of the kingdom of Naples were overwhelmed by their perjurious prince. ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... latter: thus children, as to the body, are a belonging of their father, and slaves are a possession of their master. Secondly, when one person's sin is transmitted to another, either by imitation, as children copy the sins of their parents, and slaves the sins of their masters, so as to sin with greater daring; or by way of merit, as the sinful subjects merit a sinful superior, according to Job 34:30, "Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas


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