Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine that makes copies of printed or graphic matter.
- noun One that transcribes or copies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original or form; a transcriber.
- noun An imitator; a plagiarist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
- noun An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.
- noun a machine that makes copies of documents, especially by xerography; a photocopier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
machine thatcopies graphical material ; aduplicator . - noun A person who copies
documents .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material
Etymologies
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Examples
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In a regime obsessed with the control of information a copier is a dangerous instrument.
The Customer Connection: Strategies for Winning and Keeping Customers 2004
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I think I must be the only person here who thinks Wins file copier is fine.
Five Best Alternative File Copiers | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Someone demand to see the GOP version of Finance Reform and when they don't produce it or say sorry, the copier is jammed or my dog ate it, expose them for the obstructionists that they are.
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If you think the windows copier is fine, either you're using vista (i think the last one was fixed on vista) or you haven't had to copy huge amounts of files.
Five Best Alternative File Copiers | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Clad in steel, the GigaMatrix looks like a copier from the late 1980s, with two flat TV monitors on top and a door on the side.
Gut Reactions 2008
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Clad in steel, the GigaMatrix looks like a copier from the late 1980s, with two flat TV monitors on top and a door on the side.
Gut Reactions 2008
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An average cartridge for a good printer or copier is $100.
- Boing Boing 2006
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But when the copier broke down, she called the copier company and discovered that not only did she not have a maintenance contract, but she owed
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If you’re dumping gigabytes of data from one drive to another, however, you’ll quickly find that the default copier is sluggish and unreliable.
Five Best Alternative File Copiers | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Doing a cartwheel over a copier is a lot different than a leap over two semi trucks!
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