Dictionary

copy-paste en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste

Meanings

1. (informal) Identical or very similar, as though copied and pasted.

Forms

copy-paste en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else.
   • Optimizing your META Keywords field is remarkably easy, especially if you have just optimized your page titles. All you need to do is a simple copy-paste. 2009, Stephen Woessner, The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization: Increase Your Google Rankings, Double Your Site Traffic... in Just 15-Steps - Guaranteed, Atlantic Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 114:
   • Paragraphs, images or diagrams are frequently assembled manually by copy-paste actions. 2007, Katrien Herbert, Erik Duval, "Evaluating the ALOCOM Approach for Scalable Content Repurposing", Creating New Learning Experiences on a Global Scale (), Springer →ISBN, page 364
   • It also has disadvantages; for one thing, the lack of focus on program structure leads to lots of copy-paste programming and poorly structured programs. Language workbenches support developing new kinds of programming platforms like this. 2010, Martin Fowler, Domain-Specific Languages, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
2. (countable, informal, uncountable) Material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes.
   • The interesting fact, however, is that the Regulation takes as a model, or better to say it is mostly a copy-paste of the text, of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods rather than being adjusted to the needs of Kosovo. 2013, Ronald A Brand, D Wes Rist, The Export of Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 101:
3. (countable, uncountable) An idea, design, or action lacks originality, as if it was simply duplicated from somewhere else.
4. (countable, uncountable) A clone of something, figuratively or otherwise.

Forms

Translations (15)

fr copier-coller (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · id salinan tempel (material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes) · nl copy-pasten (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · es copia y pega (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · gl copiar e pegar (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · nl kopiëren en plakken (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · ca copienganxar (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · es copia y pegado (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · id salin tempel (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · ca copienganxa (material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes) · ja コピペ (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · fr copié-collé (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting) · es copipega (material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes) · fr copié-collé (material incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes) · es copipega (action of duplicating by copying and later pasting)

copy-paste en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste

Meanings

1. (transitive) To copy (text, an object, etc.) and later paste it somewhere else.
   • It can be useful to copy-paste frames to transfer a sequence from the main timeline to the timeline of a clip symbol. 2004, Corinne Hervo, Straight to the Point: Flash 5, Firewall Media, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

copypasta · copy-paster · copy-pasto · copy-pasteable

Relateds

cut and paste

Translations (20)

co copià è collà (to copy and paste) · fr copier-coller (to copy and paste) · it copincollare (to copy and paste) · ru копипа́стить (to copy and paste) · af kopieer en plak (to copy and paste) · tr kopyalayıp yapıştırmak (to copy and paste) · sv kopiera och klistra in (to copy and paste) · pt copiar e colar (to copy and paste) · co cupià è cullà (to copy and paste) · de kopieren und einfügen (to copy and paste) · ru скопипа́стить (to copy and paste) · ar نسخ ولصق (to copy and paste) · ja コピペする (to copy and paste) · tr kopyalamak ve yapıştırmak (to copy and paste) · ca copienganxar (to copy and paste) · oc copiar e pegar (to copy and paste) · es copipegar (to copy and paste) · oc copiar-pegar (to copy and paste) · ko 복붙하다 (to copy and paste) · id menyalin tempel (to copy and paste)