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copying

copying

20 1.0
Making another thing that is the same as the first, for example a photo or someone else's answers
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑːpiɪŋ/
translation icon : copia
  • I did not mean to interrupt the copying process.
  • illegal copying
  • unauthorized copying
  • scribal copying

You'll be hard pressed to find an industry where copying doesn't happen.

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Examples

  • There's a great deal of copying to be done.

  • To what extent does the copying of a manuscript resemble the replication of DNA?

    Academic text (2001)
  • The board or management company may charge copying and time charges for providing the report.

    Blog text (17)
  • By mistake, both films had been sent from the copying lab at the same time.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • However, a positive outcome was that the costs of copying, telephone calls, and conference calls were shared by all.

    Academic text (1994)
  • We'll pay for copying and postage.

  • The project was begun years ago, and so copying was done photographically.

    Academic text (2000)
  • You'll be hard pressed to find an industry where copying doesn't happen.

  • Many artists openly acknowledge their debt to others and their practices of imitation, copying, and artistic appropriation.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The technician is responsible for managing the copying of important documents for the firm's records.

Synonyms

reproduction
vscopying
22 3.9

The act of making a copy of something like a photo or document

is the general act of producing another item across any domain
duplication
vscopying
17 3.5

The act of making an exact copy or the thing that is copied

is the general process of producing another item, not always identical
replication
vscopying
6 4.0

A copy of something made to look exactly like the original

is a general act of making another item that may be less exact
copyism
vscopying
  • Specialized
8.0

Making exact duplicates of a product or design so they are all the same

is the simple act of producing one new item rather than an organised system

How Exact

cloning
  • Specialized
85 4.0
duplication
17 3.5
copying
20 1.0
approximation
22 4.4

Surface Forms

copying singular
copyings plural

Morphology

copying = copy (transparent) = copy + ing

A straightforward gerund/nominalization from the verb 'copy' formed with the productive suffix '-ing'.

Etymology

Copying comes from copy, which comes from an old Latin word copia meaning 'plenty' or 'a lot' and later came to mean a written version you could make again, and you can see the same root in copious, which means 'a lot'. So, copying is making another version to create more of something.