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copy verb1. LME.
[Old & mod. French copier from medieval Latin copiare from Latin copia (see COPY noun1).]
verb trans. Make a copy of (a text, work of art, etc., also foll. by out); transcribe (from an original); design or produce by making a copy of something else (foll. by from the original). LME.
R. W. Emerson The potters copied his ugly face on their stone jugs. B. Hines He copied age, address and other details from the record card.
b. Computing. Read (data stored in one location), read the data in (a disk etc.), and reproduce in another. (Foll. by from one, into, to another.) M20.
c. Send a copy of (a document) to a person etc. L20.
verb trans. Imitate, follow the example of; follow in behaviour, mode, etc. M17.
T. Hardy This scheme of extinction by death was but tamely copying her rival's method.
verb intrans. Imitate or follow the example of another or others; make a copy or copies rather than create something original. (Foll. by after, from.) L17.
J. Ruskin No painter who is worth a straw ever will copy.
Comb.: copycat noun, adjective, & verb (colloq.) (a) noun an unimaginative or slavish imitator; (b) attrib. adjective characterized by or consisting in imitation; (c) verb trans. imitate unimaginatively. copying-pencil: used for indelible writing and for duplicating by a direct-transfer process.