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单词 carbon copy
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carbon copyn.

Brit. /ˌkɑːbən ˈkɒpi/, U.S. /ˌkɑrbən ˈkɑpi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: carbon n., copy n.
Etymology: < carbon n. + copy n.
1. A copy of a document made by using carbon paper or carbon tissue. Abbreviated c.c.
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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.
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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).
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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.

Brit. /ˈkɑːbən ˌkɒpi/, U.S. /ˈkɑrbən ˌkɑpi/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: carbon copy n.
Etymology: < carbon copy n.
1. transitive. To make a carbon copy of. Frequently in extended use: to copy exactly, to replicate (cf. carbon copy n. 2).
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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.
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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).
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