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What (who) is copy - definition
Copy (command)
COMMAND OF RT-11, RSX-11, OPENVMS, DOS, OS/2 AND MICROSOFT WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS
Copy Con; Copy con; COPY (command); COPY (DOS command); COPY (DOS); COPY/FTP (command)
In computing, copy is a command in various operating systems. The command copies computer files from one directory to another.
copy
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Coppie; Copy (disambiguation); Copies; COPY
(copies, copying, copied)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
The reporter apparently obtained a copy of Steve's resignation letter...
= duplicate
N-COUNT: usu N of n
2.
If you copy something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
She never participated in obtaining or copying any classified documents for anyone.
...top designers, whose work has been widely copied...
He copied the chart from a book.
VERB: V n, V n, V n from n
3.
If you copy a piece of writing, you write it again exactly.
He would allow John slyly to copy his answers to impossibly difficult algebra questions...
He copied the data into a notebook...
We're copying from textbooks because we don't have enough to go round.
VERB: V n, V n into n, V from n
•
He wrote the title on the blackboard, then copied out the text sentence by sentence...
'Did he leave a phone number?'-'Oh, yes.' She copied it out for him.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
4.
If you copy a person or what they do, you try to do what they do or try to be like them, usually because you admire them or what they have done.
Children can be seen to copy the behaviour of others whom they admire or identify with...
...the coquettish gestures she had copied from actresses in soap operas.
= imitate
VERB: V n, V n from n
• copying
Children learn by copying.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
A copy of a book, newspaper, or CD is one of many that are exactly the same.
I bought a copy of 'USA Today' from a street-corner machine...
You can obtain a copy for $2 from New York Central Art Supply.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
6.
In journalism, copy is written material that is ready to be printed or read in a broadcast. (TECHNICAL)
...his ability to write the most lyrical copy in the history of sports television.
...advertising copy.
N-UNCOUNT
7.
In journalism, copy is news or information that can be used in an article in a newspaper. (TECHNICAL)
...journalists looking for good copy.
N-UNCOUNT
8.
copy
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Coppie; Copy (disambiguation); Copies; COPY
n.
reproduction
1) to make, run off a copy
2) to Xerox (T) a copy
3) to print copypies (the publisher decided to print ten thousand copypies of the book)
4) to inscribe a copy (the author inscribed a copy of her book for him)
5) (a) clean, fair copy; hard ('readable') copy (from a computer); a rough; true copy
6) a backup; carbon; extra; master copy; photocopy; presentation; top (BE) ('original'); Xerox (T) copy
manuscript
draft of material to be printed
7) to edit copy
issue
8) an advance; back copy
news
9) to make good copy ('to be newsworthy')
Examples of use of copy
1. Copy editor Copy editors mostly review and edit a writer‘s copy for accuracy, content, grammar and style.
2. One in hard copy and the other one in electronic copy.
3. They are more like copy bands, cover bands that copy the lifestyle.
4. Consumers would not be able to save a copy on their computer or copy pages from the book.
5. Last month Amazon began offering a digital copy with the hard copy, at up to 20% over the usual price.