copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpi/
ipa: /ˈkɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: copies
form: coppy
form: coppie
form: copie
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English copy
English copy
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.
Senses: examples: text: Please bring me at least 200 copies of this report. The photocopier is down the hall on the right.
text: His new book is out. I have a signed copy. He'll send you a copy if you want one. He's giving free copies to his former colleagues who want one. The press run is 3000 copies, and he hopes to sell more press runs after this one.
text: I already saw their draft. She emailed me a copy yesterday. I can forward it to you so that you have your own copy.
text: I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
ref: 1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy:
glosses: The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
examples: text: Every cell in this organism contains a copy of each gene, but whether that copy will be expressed depends on complex factors of cell differentiation and epigenetics.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
examples: text: That handbag is a copy. You can tell because the buckle is different.
glosses: An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
examples: text: This organization doesn't publish any copy that hasn't been edited by a good copy editor.
topics: journalism
media
publishing
typography
glosses: The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.
topics: advertising
business
journalism
marketing
media
publishing
typography
glosses: The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.
The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
examples: text: Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
topics: journalism
media
publishing
typography
glosses: The text (words, content) that is to be typeset or similarly prepared and published.
The text to be set into newspaper articles, magazine pages, or similar.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A person employed to carry copy and run errands.
examples: text: Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy.
glosses: A schoolwork pad or workbook.
examples: text: Our town's public library has several copies of the Bible, in each of several editions.
text: Our town's public library has several copies of the second edition of Smith's textbook, but it doesn't yet have any copies of any newer edition.
glosses: A particular instance of a book: a single printed impression or digital file representing it.
examples: text: Have you seen the latest copy of Newsweek yet?
glosses: A particular instance of an issue of a periodical (e.g., magazine, journal, bulletin): a single printed impression or digital file representing that issue; (metonynmically) the issue.
glosses: Writing paper of a particular size: Synonym of bastard.
examples: text: His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
text: Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters.
ref: 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:
glosses: That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
examples: text: [S]he was bleſt with no more Copie of wit, but to ſerue his Humor thus.
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature F, verso:
glosses: An abundance or plenty of anything.
examples: text: But in them nature's copy's not eterne
ref: 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]:
glosses: copyhold; tenure; lease.
Synonyms: duplicate
facsimile
fake
forgery
image
likeness
phony
reduplication
replica
replication
reproduction
sham
simulacrum
Hyponyms: advance copy
association copy
backup copy
carbon copy
certified copy
clean copy
conformed copy
courtesy copy
deep copy
defensive 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
true 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 art
copy attack
copyback
copybook
copy boy
copycat
copy cat
copy constructor
copydesk
copy desk
copydom
copy editor
copy elision
copyfraud
copygirl
copygraph
copy holder
copyholder
copyism
copyist
copy key
copyline
copylore
copy machine
copy menu
copy number
copy number polymorphism
copy-number variant
copy number variation
copyparty
copy-paste
copy pronoun
copy-protected
copy protection
copyright
copy room
copy ruler
copy shop
copy song
copy sort
copytaker
copytaking
copy test
copytext
copy trading
copy typist
copywrite
copywriter
DJ copy
e-copy
flap copy
genocopy
intercopy
macrocopy
miscopy
monocopy
mopy
multicopy
penalty copy
phenocopy
photocopy
pseudocopy
reader copy
retrocopy
shallow-copy
telecopy
wire copy
xerocopy
xeroxcopy