PHOTOCOPY (photocopied)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: photocopied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does photocopy mean? 

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

1. a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work

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

• PHOTOCOPY (verb)
  The verb PHOTOCOPY has 1 sense:

1. reproduce by xerography

  Familiarity information: PHOTOCOPY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOCOPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

copy (a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing)

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

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

photostat (a photocopy made on a Photostat machine)

Derivation:

photocopy (reproduce by xerography)

• PHOTOCOPY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they photocopy    ... he / she / it photocopies   
Past simple: photocopied   
Past participle: photocopied   
-ing form: photocopying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reproduce by xerography

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

photocopy; run off; xerox

Hypernyms (to "photocopy" is one way to...):

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "photocopy"):

microcopy (photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size)

photostat (make a copy by means of a Photostat device)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

photocopier (a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies)

photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)

 Context examples 

Cadmium chloride is used in electroplating, printing, photocopying, dyeing, mirrors, vacuum tubes, lubricants, analytical chemistry and as a chemical intermediate to produce cadmium containing pigments and stabilizers.

(Cadmium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)