Definition of a-copy in English English dictionary
- blind carbon copy
- A copy of an email message that is sent to a person (often one of many) other than the primary recipient without the express knowledge of the other recipients
- blot one's copy book
- to damage one's own reputation through bad behavior
- carbon copy
- Any duplicate
This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
- carbon copy
- A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper
Please make a carbon copy of this contract for our records.
- carbon copy
- To create a carbon copy of
Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
- carbon copy
- make a copy for, send a duplicate to, cc
- carbon-copy
- Attributive form of carbon copy
Nor does television screen violence provoke nationwide carbon-copy murders.
- clean copy
- A copy of a draft of a document without editing notations
Print everyone a clean copy so they can read it over the weekend.
- copy
- To produce an object identical to a given object
Please copy these reports for me.
- copy
- An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality
That handbag is a copy. You can tell because the buckle is different.
- copy
- Receive a transmission successfully
Do you copy?.
- copy
- The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services
- copy
- The result of copying (confer original); an identical duplication
Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- copy
- The text that is to be typeset
- copy
- A printed edition of a book or magazine
Have you seen the latest copy of Newsweek yet?.
- copy
- To place a copy of an object in memory for later use
First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.
- copy
- A school work pad
Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy.
- copy
- The text of newspaper articles
Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
- copy
- To imitate
Mom, he's copying me!.
- copy and paste
- to copy date from one location and paste it to another
- copy boy
- A person employed to carry copy and run errands
- copy boys
- plural form of copy boy
- copy constructor
- A constructor that takes an existing instance as a parameter and copies its values
- copy desk
- The staff responsible for editing copy
- copy desk
- The desk at which newspaper copy is edited
- copy edit
- To correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing
- copy edited
- Simple past tense and past participle of copy edit
- copy editing
- The correction of the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and preparation of it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing
- copy editor
- someone who corrects printed material and prepares it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing
- copy edits
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copy edit
- copy number
- The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work
In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its copy number on the shelf list.
- copy number
- The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome
Reconstruction or titration experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene copy numbers in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.
- copy number polymorphism
- The normal variation in the number of copies (normally two) of a gene, or of sequences of DNA, in the genome of a specific individual
- copy number variation
- The variation of the number of copies (normally two) of a gene, or of sequences of DNA, in the genome of a specific individual; has been linked to some diseases
- copy protection
- A software or hardware mechanism designed to prevent copying
- copy room
- A room in a school or business set aside for the copy machines
- copy shop
- A shop that offers photocopying and printing services
The copy shop had the most intoxicating smell — sweet and chemical.
- copy shops
- plural form of copy shop
- copy sort
- an advertising research technique measuring individual phrases and verbal ideas in a commercial by the audience's levels of attention or recall, relevance, and feelings
The copy sort results showed few people noticed the company name at the end of the commercial.
- copy sort
- An advertising research technique designed to complement the Picture Sort when deconstructing the audience's experience of a television commercial
Results of the copy sort were more meaningful after we saw the Picture Sorts results.
- copy sorts
- plural form of copy sort
- copy test
- A method of market research that predicts in-market performance of an ad before it airs
- copy test
- A method of also known as a pre-test
- copy test
- A research tool that evaluates the execution and promise of an ad by analyzing audience levels of attention, brand linkage, motivation, entertainment, communication, as well as breaking down the ad’s Flow of Attention and Flow of Emotion
Thankfully, the company’s copy test included Flow of Emotion results that showed the ad’s tagline (slogan) made female consumers angry.
- copy typist
- A typist who types up written notes or drafts, rather than typing from dictation
- copy writer
- a writer of advertising copy
- copy-number variant
- a DNA sequence 1000 nucleotides (or synonymously base pairs) in length or longer that is present a variable number of times as copies in a genome relative to a reference genome
- courtesy copy
- carbon copy
- courtesy copy
- A copy of an email sent to a person other than the main recipient
- deep copy
- To make a deep copy of
I'd prefer to deep copy that in order to avoid complications with updates.
- deep copy
- A copy of a data structure duplicating not only the structure itself, but all structures to which it is linked
Don't try to make a deep copy of that -- you'll pull in half the database.
- deep copy
- To make a deep copy
This is a situation where you either have to deep copy or handle the complication of updates.
- deep-copy
- Alternative spelling of deep copy
- fair copy
- A handwritten document that has been corrected and written neatly
- hard copy
- A printed copy of a digital document, as opposed to a copy in electronic form
- image copy
- A backup copy of a database in a format that may be used, along with incremental logs, to recreate the database after a hardware failure
- penalty copy
- Copy (text to be typeset) containing much mathematics or similar notation
- reading copy
- A used book, that may include highlighting or marginalia, and is suitable for reading, but is usually not collectible. This is a term used in the used book business, to indicate the lack of collectible value, while claiming that the book is in sufficiently good condition for a purchaser whose interest is primarily in actually reading the book. A reading copy is typically less expensive than a collectible copy
- shallow copy
- To make a shallow copy of
The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.
- shallow copy
- A copy of a data structure which shares any linked structures with the original
If you modify that, you'll modify all the shallow copies of the header that points to it.
- soft copy
- A digital copy of a document, rather than a copy printed on paper
- top copy
- the typescript of a document that has carbon copies underneath
- xerox copy
- A xerox; a photocopy
Bring a xerox copy of your driver's licence.
- hard copy
- (Antika) In information handling, a hard copy is a permanent reproduction, or copy, in the form of a physical object, of any media suitable for direct use by a person (in particular paper), of displayed or transmitted data. Examples of hard copy include teleprinter pages, continuous printed tapes, computer printouts, and radio photo prints
- copy
- {n} a manuscript, imitation, pattern to write after, duplicate of an original writing, picture
- copy
- {v} to transcribe, write from or out, imitate
- advance copy
- An advance copy, also known as an advance reading copy or ARC, is a copy of a book released by its publisher before the book has gone to press for a complete printing. ARCs generally do not have the final dust jacket, formatting or binding of the finished product; the text of an ARC may also differ from that of the published book if the book is edited after the ARC is produced. ARCs are normally distributed to reviewers, bookstores, magazines, and (in some cases) libraries between three and six months before the book is officially released
- A copy
- replica
- A copy
- imitation
