copying
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈkɑːpiɪŋ/
:
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.
- You'll be hard pressed to find an industry where copying doesn't happen.
- So you have to provide the behavior of copying without doing the copy.
- And so when they make copies, there are little changes introduced.
- It can sometimes be described in harsher terms as copying or plagiarism or theft.
- And yeah, it's a process, but it's not just about copying what's here in the drawing.
Examples
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There's a great deal of copying to be done.
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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.
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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.
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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
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3.9
The act of making a copy of something like a photo or document
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3.5
The act of making an exact copy or the thing that is copied
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4.0
A copy of something made to look exactly like the original
Making exact duplicates of a product or design so they are all the same
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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.