COPYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copying mean? 

• COPYING (noun)
  The noun COPYING has 1 sense:

1. an act of copying

  Familiarity information: COPYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of copying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("copying" is a kind of...):

repeating; repetition (the act of doing or performing again)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copying"):

duplication; gemination (the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something)

replication; reproduction (the act of making copies)

imitation (copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else)

Derivation:

copy (make a replica of)

copy (reproduce someone's behavior or looks)

copy (copy down as is)

 Context examples 

While I was copying the plain inscription for him at his request, I saw him stoop, and gather a tuft of grass from the grave and a little earth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, but I had only the credit of servilely copying such sentences as I was ashamed to put my name to.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He continued copying lines and figures upon the transparent scale.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Was it in this room that you gave your instructions as to the copying of the document?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"With pleasure," I replied; and I felt a thrill of artist-delight at the idea of copying from so perfect and radiant a model.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It seemed altogether past belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Encyclopædia Britannica.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neither would Mr. Knightley's downright, decided, commanding sort of manner, though it suits him very well; his figure, and look, and situation in life seem to allow it; but if any young man were to set about copying him, he would not be sufferable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Little Raphael, as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He dropped his head to the scale and resumed the copying.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I glanced my eyes over it, and then settled down to my task of copying.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)