verb

copy

Translation

to copy, to duplicate, to imitate

Please copy this text for me.

He copied the answers from his friend.

The child copies everything her brother does.

((sth.)) to make a duplicate of (sth.) Can you copy this document?

((sth.)) ((from sb./sth.)) to write down (sth.) exactly as it appears somewhere else She copied the recipe from a magazine.

((sb./sth.)) to imitate (sb./sth.) He copies his father's way of walking.

Synonyms: duplicate, imitate, reproduce, plagiarize

From Latin 'copia' meaning 'abundance', which later came to mean 'transcript'.

Think of a photocopier making a duplicate or the 'copy-paste' function on a computer.