单词 | carbon copy |
释义 | carbon copyn. 1. A copy of a document made by using carbon paper or carbon tissue. Abbreviated c.c. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [noun] > carbon paper > copy made by carbon copy1876 carbon1916 1876 Scribner's Monthly July 445/2 Another process employs ‘carbon tissue’, instead of the colored solution of gelatine. The tissue softened in water is laid directly on the iron-paper print, and both are heavily pressed together. Warm water is then used to separate them, and the carbon copy is finished. 1893 Amer. Law Reg. & Rev. 41 3 One counterpart was originally propounded for probate: the other counterpart was a carbon copy of the first. 1919 H. Etheridge Dict. Typewriting 68 If an error is made whilst taking carbon copies, it is a lengthy process to make the correction. 1988 V. Eliot in T. S. Eliot Lett. I. p. xv I have been unable to trace his correspondence with Charles Whibley, J. M. Robertson or Frederic Manning, but fortunately there are some carbon copies. 2004 Learning Disability Q. 27 187/1 Among the historical treasures found in the move was a carbon copy of a letter written by..Danielson to a university professor. 2. figurative. An exact replica or repeat. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > duplicate or exact copy counterpanec1475 counterparta1676 facsimile1691 duplicate1701 rescript1729 double1798 reduplicate1803 duplication1872 dupe1916 carbon copy1926 spit1929 clone1977 1926 M. Connelly Wisdom Tooth i. iii. 35 A carbon copy of everybody else! 1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 58 Everything, the massacres, the whippings, the lies, the twaddle, and all their carbon copies are still present. a1985 W. Herman in I. Gitler Swing to Bop (1987) vii. 234 The general public wanted a carbon copy of what they'd heard before in '45 and '46, and they felt that I was blowing it. 2002 Darts World May 40/1 In the play-offs at Cowie Miner's Welfare Club, the prestigious Men's A championship was a carbon copy of the 2001 final with East Stirlingshire beating Lothian 7–3. Compounds attributive (chiefly appositive in sense 2). ΚΠ 1904 Collier's 7 May 22/2 (advt.) The ‘Y and E’ Rapid Roller Letter Copier makes from one to five good clean duplicates of any letter or paper written with copying ink, indelible pencil or copying ribbon... Costs $33—But it will quickly save its own cost in the expense of letter press or carbon copy supplies which it cuts off. 1936 L. I. Hutchinson Standard Handbk. Secretaries 287 The carbon copy notation, ‘c.c.’, should be the last notation. 1959 Observer 15 Mar. 11/5 A group of indolent, shiftless, carbon-copy ‘West Side’ youths. 1961 Daily Tel. 3 Apr. 7/4 Victim of the week-old ‘carbon copy’ murder. 1991 A. Roddick Body & Soul i. 19 All the big companies seem to be led by accountants and lawyers and become moribund carbon-copy versions of each other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). carbon copyv. 1. transitive. To make a carbon copy of. Frequently in extended use: to copy exactly, to replicate (cf. carbon copy n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy counterfeit1362 to take out1530 take1538 reduplicate1570 imitate1590 counter-make1595 ingeminate1625 replicate1661 recopy1684 takea1715 reproduce1838 duplicate1860 facsimile1862 carbon copy1914 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy > copy exactly replicate1661 carbon copy1914 1914 Man. Med. Dept. U.S. Navy viii. 59 All outgoing letters..and other communications of which a permanent record is desirable, shall be carbon copied when prepared and the copies carefully indexed and filed. 1939 San Antonio (Texas) Light 22 Sept. 2/1 (advt.) Elasticated shoes ‘carbon copied’ from high-priced styles. 1976 Boundary 2 5 244 Retype it, and photostat it, if you haven't carbon copied it. 2006 S. Holmes in K. J. Greenberg Torture Deb. in Amer. 132 The United States has carbon-copied the obnoxious arrogance of the jihadists with an obnoxious arrogance of its own. 2. transitive. To send a copy of (a communication). Also (usually with on): to send a copy of a communication to (a recipient). Cf. cc vb. at C n. Additions.Originally used with reference to carbon-paper copies; later used irrespective of medium. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > send copy of letter carbon copy1975 copy1985 cc1990 1975 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 6 Dec. 4/2 Commissioner Martin, who was carbon copied on my first letter, did consider the issue important enough to respond immediately. 1981 D. Wilcox & E. Rantzen Kill Chocolate Biscuit ii. 49 Conversations are not carbon copied to the mightiest bosses, as some memos are. 1992 Canad. Jrnl. Educ. 17 30 I quote from the teacher's letter of complaint addressed to his principal and carbon-copied to the superintendent. 2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. (FT Report section) 8 Bad manners, such as writing in capital letters to mimic shouting, carbon-copying a hundred other people on a message, [etc.]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1876v.1914 |
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