Copying
['kɔpiiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Copy
(a. & n.) From Copy, v.
Editor: Nita
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of copying, denotes unfavorable workings of well tried plans. For a young woman to dream that she is copying a letter, denotes she will be prejudiced into error by her love for a certain class of people.
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Examples
- One incident tells how he was found one day in the village square copying laboriously the signs of the stores. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This paper is really a valuable article, and is manufactured and sold under various names, such as the stylograph, rapid copying process, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With pleasure, I replied; and I felt a thrill of artist-delight at the idea of copying from so perfect and radiant a model. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss Mills was copying music (I recollect, it was a new song, called 'Affection's Dirge'), and Dora was painting flowers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You know what a curious power of eye he has and how he has been used to employ himself in copying things by eye alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Another United States patent, covering a method of duplicating or copying sound records, was granted to Charles Sumner Tainter in 1886. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much skill and vividness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The person who does copying. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For what is termed dry copying mix about 1/3 pint of glycerine to a pint of any good black ink. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Langley had adopted wings that slanted upward from the point at which they joined, copying the wings of a soaring buzzard. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The confined room, strong of parchment-grease, is warehouse, counting-house, and copying-office. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The length and breadth of the pans is determined by the class of copying to be done. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- By this time, we were quite settled down in Buckingham Street, where Mr. Dick continued his copying in a state of absolute felicity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I glanced my eyes over it, and then settled down to my task of copying. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Ora