different between copy vs incarnation

English

Alternative forms

• coppy, coppie, copie (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin c?pia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• Hyphenation: copy
• Rhymes: -?pi

Noun

copy (plural copies)

1. The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
   • 1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy

     I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.

2. An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.

3. (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
4. (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
5. (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
6. (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.

7. A school work pad.

8. A printed edition of a book or magazine.

9. Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
10. (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

      Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters.

11. (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
    • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

      She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.

12. (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
13. (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• original

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Verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

1. (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
2. (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).

3. (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

4. (transitive) To imitate.
   • 1793, Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy

     We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.

5. (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

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Finnish

Etymology

From English copy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kopy/, [?ko?py]
• Syllabification: co?py

Noun

copy

1. (slang) A copywriter.
2. (slang) A copy (output of copywriter).

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??(?)?ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

incarnation (countable and uncountable, plural incarnations)

1. An incarnate being or form.
   • 1815, Francis Jeffrey, Wordsworth's White Doe (review)

     She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.

   • 1922, Baroness Orczy, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

     Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by..
2. A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
3. An assumption of human form or nature.
4. A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

5. The act of incarnating.
6. The state of being incarnated.
7. (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
8. (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Related terms

• carnal
• incarnate
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Translations

Further reading

• incarnation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• incarnation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ka?.na.sj??/

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

1. embodiment (entity typifying an abstraction)

Related terms

• incarner

Further reading

• “incarnation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French incarnacion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarn?ti?, incarn?ti?nem.

Noun

incarnation f (plural incarnations)

1. (Christianity) Incarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God in the form of Jesus Christ.

Descendants

• French: incarnation

References

• incarnation on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)