Noun : a copy of a famous painting. ,The editor sent the copy for the next issue to the printer. ,The president is always good copy.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to copy a set of figures from a book.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : It copied poorly. ,Do you copy?.    From Dictionary.com. 

The reason for the great fidelity in copying is also known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adjusting Pre-configuration to Design Outcomes] Reference

At this point, I am still copying from the masters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to draw rocks and mountains] Reference

Just use caret mode for copying from a page when necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflective Surface - Ion3 and Conkeror] Reference

Great as in copying every bit from Kimmel and Howard Stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRAILER FOR THE ADAM CAROLLA MOVIE] Reference

Finally something good that McCain is copying from the Dems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential candidates sign joint statement on Darfur] Reference

And that for this reason, the optimal amount of copying is not zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Deadweight Loss] Reference

Your copying is not “theft”, simply “conspiracy to defraud”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creative Control - Part 3] Reference

But this home copying is fully legal: Petsynth has gone open source.    From Wordnik.com.  [hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » “The finest in 1-bit sound on the Commodore PET”] Reference

They show that not all unacknowledged copying is "plagiarism" in the pejorative sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Plagiarism] Reference

Well, for one thing, you should stop copying from the best 19th century english literature!.    From Wordnik.com.  [spiral] Reference

Since browsers make a copy in order for you to view anything on the net, copying is rampant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment industry bullshit] Reference

Encoding computer files in a way that prevents unauthorized copying is a form of cryptography.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Jukebox] Reference

I chose the word copying because they didn't clone it (although certainly, some gentlemen did).    From Wordnik.com.  [Waffle] Reference

Failure will show, instead, that stopping digital copying is much harder than Hollywood thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The DRM Revolution] Reference

Instead, they want kids to be told, at the youngest possible age, that copying is “stealing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred von Lohmann talks to p2pnet] Reference

If copying is the sincerest form of praise the British Press Council has undoubtedly been successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspapers and You] Reference

copying isn't what we do as an act of purchasing; copying is a thing we do to our valuable artifacts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

May 25, 2009 at 5: 33 PM was wondering if this will also assist in copying gamecube games????? must know please.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back Up And Play Your Wii Games From An External Hard Drive | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Whereas copying is far easier, encoding requires mechanisms to convert realized forms into a dissimilar symbolic form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

The built-in Windows copying is made for moving small files since that is what most home users will be doing. ossigeno.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best Alternative File Copiers | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Dawkins himself has pointed out that each act of of cultural transmission may involve some mistakes in copying, some mutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human-Computer Interaction: Cognitive Science, Memes and Evolution] Reference

The judge stated that "hyperlinking does not itself involve a violation of the Copyright Act ... since no copying is involved.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference

Of course, such an appeal would be useless; the papers now published there take pride in copying and crediting them to other papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Months in Mexico] Reference

No copying is permitted, not even a fraction of a second, as there is no such thing as fair use except when it works to our benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Use? ‘Not under the DMCA,’ says MPAA] Reference

The purpose of CCC is to assist you in copying your entire Mac OS X installation from one partition to another as easily as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 13, 2002 - January 19, 2002 Archives] Reference

According to the ruling, “Such copying is paradigmatic noncommercial personal use entirely consistent with the purposes of the Act.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIAA vs Diamond Rio] Reference

I don't think you will have much luck copying from a digital cable box, with out another special box sold by some cable companies up North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blocking of internet and cable programming to Mexico] Reference

(should have added): in other words, all of the copying is completely incidental to the relaying of the message.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail ] Reference

Wash., came up with the idea of copying ant behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Word-for-word copying from them is perfectly acceptable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

‘Your copying is not “theft”, simply “conspiracy to defraud”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creative Control - Part 5] Reference

It was an important part of my development, but the copying was a means, not an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Old, Something New «] Reference

Lahiri termed the copying an act of "cultural imperialism." posted by nerdlaw. org at.    From Wordnik.com.  [nerdlaw.org] Reference

Even though some of us were very allergic to the idea of copying the experiences of others, we did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castro Addresses Sixth UPEC Congress] Reference

The originator and moving spirit of this bad period was Miss Linwood, who conceived the idea of copying oil paintings in woolwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

Buffon's work on natural history, and it suggested the idea of copying and coloring the plates, after he had carefully studied the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference