Word Finder - copying

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To produce an object identical to a given object.

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Please copy these reports for me.

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To give or transmit a copy to (a person).

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Make sure you copy me on that important memo.

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To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

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First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.

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To imitate.

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Don't copy my dance moves.

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To receive a transmission successfully.

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Do you copy?

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An instance of the making of a copy

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The practice of making one or more copies

In 1827 a combined expedition led by Champollion and Rosellini was despatched by the governments of France and Tuscany, and accomplished a great deal of valuable work in copying scenes and inscriptions.

Sonya sat in the drawing room at the round table, copying a design for embroidery.

The clerics preached and instructed the people, working chiefly among the poor; they also devoted themselves to the copying of manuscripts, in order thereby to earn something for the common fund; and some of them taught in the schools.

He notes the convenience of the method for solar observations and its previous use by some of the observers already mentioned, as well as its advantages for easily and accurately copying on an enlarged or reduced scale, especially for chorographical or topographical documents.

They laboured carefully in copying books, being instant continually in sacred study and devout meditation.

There are various copying processes by which it is possible to reproduce an original ruling in more or less perfection.

The copyist may erroneously suppose that something written in the margin, between the lines or at the top or the foot of the page which he is copying, is intended to be placed in the text.

This device was originally adopted in the d'Arlincourt copying telegraph.

The church was dedicated in 1260 by Walter Bronescombe, bishop of Exeter; and c. 1335 Bishop John Grandisson, on founding a secular college here, greatly enlarged the church; it has been thought that, by copying the Early English style, he is responsible for more of the building than is apparent.

He was not jealous of brother friars because of their funds, instruments and materials for copying and their ability as skilled copyists.

It was used largely for copying, for reducing or for enlarging existing drawings.

In the first place we shall discard all manuscripts which are derived by copying from other extant manuscripts.

If a MS. is immediately or ultimately derived by copying from another MS., it cannot, qua copy, tell us anything that we do not know already if the latter MS. is known to us.

They had begun it together in Syria, she copying the pages as he wrote them, with a New Testament and a Josephus for all his library.

The copying can be done under the ' fair dealing ' defense.

To use the mono copier, located in block A, students must first purchase a copying card from the Computer Helpdesk.

On the question of copying errors, in the many and various manuscripts that remain today, a large number have copyists ' errors.

Copying a compressed file from the Windows Setup CD-ROM automatically decompresses the file.

The values formed from direct copying have usually been created either mechanically or subconsciously, and hence are usually enshrouded in confusion and self-deception.

The objects are then copied into it using a copying garbage collector.

Dust and other particles can scratch the surface of your disk, causing imperfections in copying and playback.

Disabled access facilities, self-service microfilm and a chargeable copying service are provided.

Customized scanning, copying and faxing for complex jobs are simple one-step, one-touch, operations.

Yes to cover costs of photocopying, postage and copying images such as x-rays and photographs.

With the coming of digital, the need to prohibit illegal copying becomes even more pressing.

The trend in the European Union is not to allow exceptions for copying for a commercial purpose.

Why did copying what a mentally retarded person had to say seem like a good idea?

That fact, combined with his three-day, money-back guarantee, has resulted in lots of unauthorized copying and lost revenue, he says.

They may enact the rituals slightly differently, or embellish them a touch, so essentially they are copying them with slight variations.

The Microsoft Access format allows the backup of an entire database simply by copying a single file to a CD or a server.

The library does not permit the copying of any unpublished thesis without the prior permission of the author.

Copying from commercially produced videos or DVDs, including the capture of a single frame, requires permission from the copyright holder.

Several ingenious applications of his method were proposed and practically worked, as, for example, the copying telegraph of Bakewell and of Cros, by means of which a telegram may be transmitted in the sender's own handwriting; the pantelegraph of Caselli; the autographic telegraphs of Meyer, Lenoir, Sawyer and others; and the autographic typo-telegraph of Bonelli; all forms of the apparatus have, however, fallen into disuse.

He set at naught the jealousy of his superiors and brother friars, and despite the want of funds, instruments, materials for copying and skilled copyists, completed in about eighteen months three large treatises, the Opus Majus, Opus Minus and Opus Tertium, which, with some other tracts, were despatched to the pope.

According to Vasari, Marcantonio, in copying Diirer's series of the Little Passion on wood, had imitated the original monogram, and Darer, indignant at this fraud, set out for Italy in order to protect his rights, and having lodged a complaint against Marcantonio before the signory of Venice, carried his point so far that Marcantonio was forbidden in future to add the monogram of Darer to copies taken after his works.

The date of the Laocoon being now fixed (see Agesander) to 40-20 B.C., there can be no question of copying Virgil.

The success of the Etudes d'histoire religieuse and the Essais de morale had made the name of Renan known to a cultivated public. While Mademoiselle Renan remained shut up at home copying her brother's manuscripts or compiling material for his work, the young philosopher began to frequent more than one Parisian salon, and especially the studio of Ary Scheffer, at that time a noted social centre.

Then just copying from the RAM disk to hard drive.

Copying Website Information into a computer cache or storage device for private on or off-line browsing purposes is also permitted.

Second, the use of the term ' work ' means that the definition covers more than word-for-word copying.

Try searching for a newer version on the Internet or copying the file from your Workbench disks.

The changing of your voice and the emphasizing of certain syllables will hold onto your child's attention, and she'll become more fascinated with copying your sounds.

While people in America often choose names for their children based on the popularity of the word, copying someone else's exact name is often frowned upon in the Chinese culture.

Because you will want your baby's name to be special and unique, copying a name from a book or computer site may not be in your best interest.

Online, there are many sources to buy the perfect machine for your CD copying needs.

If they charge you anything at all, it will likely be a nominal fee to cover their operating costs, such as copying your paperwork.

If you covet a particular designer lamp but the price makes it out of your budget, consider copying the design yourself.

Once the code is created, it is simply a matter of copying and pasting the code to his website to offer visitors the ease of an online dictionary lookup.

It gets the book out there in one coherent piece, retaining all of your formatting, and you can set it up so no one can steal your text by copying and pasting it.

If you don't want the hassle of copying brackets and totaling each participant's points (a huge task, if you're in a big office), there are online services that will do it for you for a small fee.