copy

copy is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An abundance or plenty of anything. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An abundance or plenty of anything.
2. noun. An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.
3. noun. An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.
4. noun. That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
5. noun. Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
6. noun. A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.
7. noun. Copyhold; tenure; lease.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.
10. intransitive verb. To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
11. intransitive verb. To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.
12. noun. a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing

    "she made a copy of the designer dress"

    "the clone was a copy of its ancestor"

13. noun. matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials
14. noun. a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

    Synonyms: transcript

15. noun. material suitable for a journalistic account

    "catastrophes make good copy"

16. verb. make a replica of

    "copy that drawing"

    "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"

17. verb. reproduce or make an exact copy of

    "replicate the cell"

    "copy the genetic information"

    Synonyms: replicate

18. verb. reproduce someone's behavior or looks

    "The mime imitated the passers-by"

    "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

    Synonyms: imitate, simulate

19. verb. copy down as is

    "The students were made to copy the alphabet over and over"

Synonyms

transcript, replicate, imitate, simulate

Common word forms

copied, copier, copies, copying, copyable

Words from these letters

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