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COPYING
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb copy
Context examples:
But I'll provide for her! I never spend the copying money. I put it in a box. I have made a will. I'll leave it all to her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You see, Watson, he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet at that moment Helen Burns wore on her arm the untidy badge; scarcely an hour ago I had heard her condemned by Miss Scatcherd to a dinner of bread and water on the morrow because she had blotted an exercise in copying it out.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
On a large transparent sheet, compass and square in hand, he was copying what appeared to be a scale of some sort or other.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And really his anxiety to be of use in the investigations we have been making, and his real usefulness in extracting, and copying, and fetching, and carrying, have been quite stimulating to us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Not me!” raising her cheerful face from the music she is copying.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
By this time, we were quite settled down in Buckingham Street, where Mr. Dick continued his copying in a state of absolute felicity.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Miss Mills was copying music (I recollect, it was a new song, called “Affection's Dirge”), and Dora was painting flowers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My aunt informed me how he incessantly occupied himself in copying everything he could lay his hands on, and kept King Charles the First at a respectful distance by that semblance of employment; how it was one of the main joys and rewards of her life that he was free and happy, instead of pining in monotonous restraint; and how (as a novel general conclusion) nobody but she could ever fully know what he was.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
