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▪ I. copying, vbl. n.|ˈkɒpɪɪŋ|
[see -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb copy, q.v.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Doublement d'escripture, a copying out of a writing. 1712Addison Spect. No. 543 ⁋5 Those more numerous Copyings, which are found among the Vessels of the same Body. 1812R. H. in Examiner 25 May 327/2 Faithful copyings of nature.
2. attrib. and Comb., esp. of appliances for copying writing by some transfer process, as in copying-book, copying-ink, copying-machine (first patented in 1780 by James Watt), copying-paper, copying-pencil, copying-press; also copying (ink) pencil, a lead, or a pencil containing a lead, composed of graphite, aniline blue, and kaolin or gum arabic, and used for indelible writing, and duplicating in a copying press; copying-instrument, an instrument for copying outlines etc.; copying-lathe (see quot. 1889); copying-ribbon, a ribbon used in a type-writing machine, when a duplicate copy is taken; copying-telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus by which, a written message being placed in the transmitter, a copy of it is produced in the receiver on the passage of the current.
1879Print. Trades Jrnl. xxix. 36 Press *Copying-books have an unlucky knack of coming to pieces.
1813Jas. Watt & Co. Direct. for using Patent Copying Machine 6 A bottle of *copying ink. 1882Watts Dict. Chem. III. 271 Copying-inks.—Inks for this purpose must be rather thick, not dry too quickly, and soften when moistened again, without becoming too fluid. 1885Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 465 *Copying Ink Pencils. Automatic action.
1889E. Matheson Aid Bk. (ed. 2) 680 *Copying-lathes are those in which the shape is given to the article operated on.
1803A. Ellicott in C. V. Mathews Life & Lett. (1908) 209, I have enclosed a copy of this letter taken in 15 seconds, by which you will see the value of a *copying machine.
1813Jas. Watt & Co. Direct. for using Patent Copying Machine 6 To prepare the *Copying Paper.
1883R. Haldane Workshop Rec. 175/2 Copying... The subject may be divided into chemical..and mechanical methods, *copying pencils, and transferring. 1928E. Blunden Undertones of War ii. 18 The censoring of the letters scrawled in copying pencil by our home-yearning stalwarts.
1785Jefferson Let. in Writ. (1894) V. 110 Have you a *copying press? If not, you should get one.
▪ II. ˈcopying, ppl. a.
[see -ing2.]
That copies; engaged in transcription, as in copying clerk.
1836Dickens Sk. Boz 1st Ser. II. 198 Low copying-clerks in attorneys' offices. 1876Gladstone Synchr. Homer 56, I deny that the Poet is but the copying clerk of the actual world. 1882Besant Revolt of Man xiv. 346 They were chiefly turned into copying-clerks, the lowest and the meanest of all handicrafts. |