different between scripting vs copy

English

Etymology

From script +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk??pt??/
• Hyphenation: script?ing

Noun

scripting (plural scriptings)

1. The act by which something is scripted.
   • 2003, Javier A. Treviño, Goffman's Legacy (page 130)

     After all, dramatic scriptings of behavior are everywhere present in our media-drenched society, and these scriptings guide and organize real experience (Goffman 1974:55).

Hyponyms

• cross-site scripting

Verb

scripting

1. present participle of script

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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Translations

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).

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