Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An exercise book containing models of penmanship, used in teaching handwriting.
- adjective Unoriginal; trite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A student’s
exercise book containing samples of goodhandwriting to be copied - noun computing A series of
instructions or data definitions copied into multipleprograms from a sharedlibrary ;boilerplate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship
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Examples
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The only blot on his copybook was the booking he earned for his cellies as he launched himself into the fans.
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The only blot on his copybook was the booking he earned for his cellies as he launched himself into the fans.
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"Instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook, which is sad for him.
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"Instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook, which is sad for him.
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He added: "It should have been seen as the crowning moment of a great performance but instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook which is sad for him.
unknown title 2009
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He added: "It should have been seen as the crowning moment of a great performance but instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook which is sad for him.
unknown title 2009
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He added: "It should have been seen as the crowning moment of a great performance but instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook which is sad for him.
icCoventry 2009
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He added: "It should have been seen as the crowning moment of a great performance but instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook which is sad for him.
unknown title 2009
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He added: "It should have been seen as the crowning moment of a great performance but instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook which is sad for him.
icLiverpool 2009
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He added: "It should have been seen as the crowning moment of a great performance but instead it is going to be seen as a glaring miss and a blot on his copybook which is sad for him.
unknown title 2009
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