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verb

Copy v. t. (past & past part. copied; pres. part. copying)

To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; often with out, sometimes with off. "I like the work well; ere it be demanded (As like enough it will), I'd have it copied." "Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance."

To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life. "We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation."

Copy v. i.

To make a copy or copies; to imitate.

To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well. "Some... never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good things."

adjective

Copying adj., n. From Copy, v.

Copying ink. See under Ink.

Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press.

Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

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Etymology of 'Copying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Copying" Quotes from Famous Books

... were deposited, and numerous attendants moved to and fro among the readers, supplying them with such manuscripts as they desired, and taking away those they had done with. Leaving the hall they passed through a series of large apartments, in which hundreds of men were at work copying manuscripts. ...

— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

... the doctor for the priest, with the all-sided impressionability characteristic of her sex which, when cultivated, is so like an awakened child. She perhaps even affects mannish ways, unconsciously copying from those not most manly, or comes to feel that she has been robbed of something; competes with men, but sometimes where they are most sordid, brutish, and strongest; always expecting, but never finding, she turns ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... same love of Roman books seized others, and princes spent large sums of money in collecting and copying ancient writings. At this time a beginning of the great libraries of Europe was made, Petrarch tried to learn Greek, but could find no one in ...

— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

... used and combined by Mr. Payne with which Burton was then acquainted. [357] Mr. Payne's first volume was completely in type and had for some weeks been held over for Burton's return to England. Of the remaining volumes three were ready for press, and the rest only awaited fair copying. Burton's thoughts, however, were then completely occupied with the Gold Coast, consequently the whole project of collaboration fell through. Mr. Payne's first volume duly appeared; and as the result of further conversations it was arranged that Burton should read Mr. ...

— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... lodgings! A bright inspiration came to me one day; I thought how glad I should be if I could get some work to do at night, if it were but possible to earn a few shillings. I advertised again, and after some time succeeded in getting copying to do, for which I ...

— Coralie • Charlotte M. Braeme

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