Crossword clues for copies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copy \Cop"y\ (k[o^]p"[y^]), n.; pl. Copies (-[i^]z). [F. copie, fr. L. copia abundance, number, LL. also, a transcript; co- + the root of opes riches. See Opulent, and cf. Copious.]
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An abundance or plenty of anything. [Obs.]
She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus.
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An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.
I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
--Denham. 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.
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That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters.
--Holder. (print.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.
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Copyhold; tenure; lease. [Obs.]
--Shak.Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.
Examined copies (Law), those which have been compared with the originals.
Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court.
Certified copies or Office copies, those which are made or attested by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially.
--Abbot.Syn: Imitation; transcript; duplicate; counterfeit.
Wiktionary
n. (copy English) vb. (en-third-person singularcopy)
Usage examples of "copies".
These include early romances of chivalry, of which few copies are found today.
So it is hardly surprising that only six perfect copies of the first edition exist.
There may perhaps have been as many as three hundred copies printed of this masterpiece, esteemed by admirers of the printed word as the most beautiful book ever printed, a work in which printing seems to spring fully perfected from nothingness in one magnificent leap.
More than ten million copies of the Bible in whole or part are now annually printed here and sent worldwide.
Aldus would not have minded so much the filching of the text, but when the unscrupulous printers ventured to copy his types and his original style of typography, and sold their counterfeit copies as the product of the Aldine Press, his indignation knew no bounds.
In his library of some eight thousand books Grolier had several copies of the same title, so that no one of his friends need be deprived of the pleasure which he himself secured.
If one hundred copies were printed and most of them landed in institutional collections, the chances are the price will be prohibitive.
I knew that it must be worth having, because it said in the front that the edition consisted of one hundred and seventy copies, of which mine was number thirty-nine.
We have only error-ridden copies, and the vast majority of these are centuries removed from the originals and different from them, evidently, in thousands of ways.
And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places.
He used to say that every gentleman needed at least three copies of a book, one for his country house library, one for reading, and one to lend to friends.
Beautiful copies were made, but production in quantity was simply not possible.
One of three known copies of the Missal is now owned by the Pierpont Morgan library of New York.
The edition was 1,250 copies, but barely half sold at the price of four guineas per copy, about twenty dollars, a fairly high price almost two hundred years ago.
Those copies in which the remarks did not turn out to be so humorous as I had planned had to be put aside.