to copy out

Examples

• All

• Do you know, it's true, I once copied out a whole novel on the typewriter.

  Crutch (2004)

• He frowned as he copied out the address.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Now, let's copy out the fugue and see what the world thinks of it.

  Copying Beethoven (2006)

• I finally copied out the entire dictionary.

  Malcolm X (1992)

• Here's what I copied out of the book that Paul published.

• He begins to copy out the sonnet.

  Fiction book (1995)

• My guilt was such that after four years I went to the university library and copied out a few pages of a nineteenth-century work on medieval thought by a Reverend, updating a number of the verbs.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I'm too busy copying out paragraphs from Truman Capote or trying to figure out how Agatha Christie's sentences work.

  Academic text (2010)

• Before the exam, she decided to copy out all the important formulas from her notes.

• The student was asked to copy out the poem from the book carefully during the lesson.

Synonyms

C

to copy

vsto copy out

328 1.0

Make the same words or pictures as the original

is limited to producing text by writing or typing with careful accuracy

D

to duplicate

vsto copy out

84 3.5

To make an exact copy of something

focuses on producing text precisely by transcribing with careful accuracy

R

to replicate

vsto copy out

• Specialized

66 4.9

To make an exact copy of something, often in a lab

is about carefully transcribing text exactly rather than technical duplication

R

to reproduce

vsto copy out

41 4.0

To make a copy of something that looks like the original

emphasizes exact written or typed transcription with precise accuracy

W

to write out

vsto copy out

25 2.4

Put all the details on a form or paper

requires transcribing text exactly from another place with strict accuracy

How Exact

to transcribe

27 4.2

to copy out

1 2.8

to write down

214 1.1

to scribble

55 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology