copy

Noun

• material suitable for a journalistic account
  • catastrophes make good copy
    

• matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials

• a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing
  • she made a copy of the designer dress
    
  • the clone was a copy of its ancestor
    

• a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

Verb

• make a replica of
  • copy that drawing
    
  • re-create a picture by Rembrandt
    

• reproduce or make an exact copy of
  • replicate the cell
    
  • copy the genetic information
    

• reproduce someone's behavior or looks
  • The mime imitated the passers-by
    
  • Children often copy their parents or older siblings
    

• copy down as is
  • The students were made to copy the alphabet over and over
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  written matter , transcript , re-create , replicate , imitate , simulate