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PHOTOCOPY
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Irregular inflected form: photocopied
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("photocopy" is a kind of...):
copy (a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing)
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photocopy"):
photostat (a photocopy made on a Photostat machine)
Derivation:
photocopy (reproduce by xerography)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they photocopy ... he / she / it photocopies
Past simple: photocopied
-ing form: photocopying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "photocopy" is one way to...):
reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "photocopy"):
microcopy (photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size)
photostat (make a copy by means of a Photostat device)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
photocopier (a copier that uses photographic methods of making copies)
photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)