copy
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
copy/ˈkɒpi/
▶noun (pl. copies)
- 1 a thing made to be similar or identical to another.
- 2 a single specimen of a particular book, record, etc.
- 3 matter to be printed.
■ material for a newspaper or magazine article.
- 1 make a copy of.
- 2 imitate the behaviour or style of.
– origin ME: from OFr. copie (n.), copier (v.), from L. copia ‘abundance’ (in med. L. ‘transcript’, from such phrs as copiam describendi facere ‘give permission to transcribe’).
'copy' also found in these Oxford entries:
artificial
- back
- backup
- bcc
- burn
- calque
- carbon
- carbon copy
- carbon paper
- carrier
- cast
- cc
- clone
- control
- copy-edit
- copyright library
- copy typist
- CRC
- crib
- diplomatic
- download
- dub
- dump
- duplicate
- electrotype
- estreat
- facsimile
- fair copy
- fax
- flimsy
- follow-the-leader
- forge
- forgery
- hard copy
- imitate
- imitation
- impression
- knock
- knock-off
- lection
- living
- master
- microcopy
- mimeograph
- minute
- mirror
- model
- offprint
- original
