Xerox
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5.1
- proper noun
- /ˈzɪrɒks/
- US
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Xerox
- Can you please make a Xerox of these documents before you leave?
- a Xerox copy
- Xerox Corporation
- companies like Xerox
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre was run off the Xerox publicity budget.
- The Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre was run off the Xerox publicity budget.
- And Apple and so on basically just got their ideas from Xerox Park and implemented it.
- It's the birth place of such fallen giants as Kodak and Xerox.
- I've been reading the book Dealers and Lightning about Xerox Park.
- I was working for Rank Xerox, doing stuff.
- Midway through that lawsuit, Xerox filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming Apple had infringed copyright Xerox held on its graphical user interface.
- He's you know, every, all of the ideas that go into the first, the Macintosh computer are all taken from Xerox Parc.
Examples
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I want to show you where the Xerox machine is.
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I need Xerox copies of this.
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This is a Xerox of a menu.
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There were three Xerox machines in use all the time, he says.
Academic text (2011) -
Listen, you wouldn't have a Xerox machine around here, would you?
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The number two thing we get is from teachers in high school and college professors saying, can I get the rights to make Xerox copies of this story for my class?
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Xerox copies of Stuart's journal.
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Erin is at the Xerox machine, copying a file while she tries to calm Beth.
Fiction book (2000) -
I need to make some Xerox copies of this report for the meeting.
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The teacher asked us to bring a Xerox of our assignments for review.
Synonyms
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2.9
A machine that makes copies of papers or pictures
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2.0
A machine that makes paper copies of documents and pictures
A copy of a document made with a photocopier
A machine that makes copies of papers or pictures using light and powder
A machine like a photocopier or laser printer that makes pages with toner
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Xerox comes from the word xerography, built from Greek parts xeros ('dry') and graphia ('writing'), meaning 'dry writing' or copying without wet ink. Because of this origin, the company name Xerox is often used to mean a photocopy or the act of copying.