The meaning of Facsimiles

noun

A facsimile.

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Also known as autotypes, carbon printing was first patented in 1855 by alphone poitevin.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 6, a non-metal which has two main forms (diamond and graphite) and which also occurs in impure form in charcoal, soot, and coal.

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Combustion, or burning, is a chemical process involving carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

noun

An organism or cell, or group of organisms or cells, produced asexually from one ancestor or stock, to which they are genetically identical.

Usage examples:

Vines representing all the 15 existing clones were planted

verb

Propagate (an organism or cell) as a clone.

Usage examples:

Of the hundreds of new plants cloned the best ones are selected

noun

A cell or organism that has the exact same chemical patterns in its cells as the original from which it was artificially produced

noun

A thing made to be similar or identical to another.

Usage examples:

The problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy

verb

Make a similar or identical version of; reproduce.

Usage examples:

Each form had to be copied and sent to a different department

verb

To produce something that is exactly like another thing, or to do something meant to be like someone or something else

Usage examples:

The design was copied from a 19th-century wallpaper., he copied the file onto a diskette., she writ…

adjective

Consisting of two equal, identical, or similar parts or things.

Usage examples:

Double doors

predeterminer

Twice as much or as many.

Usage examples:

The jail now houses almost double the number of prisoners it was designed for

adverb

At or to twice the amount or extent.

Usage examples:

You have to be careful, and this counts double for older people

adjective

Exactly like something else, especially through having been copied.

Usage examples:

A duplicate set of keys

noun

One of two or more identical things.

Usage examples:

Books may be disposed of if they are duplicates

verb

Short for duplicate bridge.

noun

An exact copy of a document made by electronic scanning and transmitted as data by telecommunications links.

Usage examples:

We got a three-page fax from her assistant

verb

Send (a document) by fax.

Usage examples:

Please fax the agreement to me

noun

Non-standard spelling of ‘facts’.

Usage examples:

Food fax

noun

A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.

Usage examples:

Her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art

verb

Make a representation of the external form of.

Usage examples:

Artworks which imaged women's bodies

noun

An idea, esp. a mental picture, of what something or someone is like

Usage examples:

I had an image of texas in my head that was totally different from how it really is., he’s trying t…

noun

The fact or quality of being alike; resemblance.

Usage examples:

Her likeness to him was astonishing

noun

A similarity

Usage examples:

Sandy bears a much stronger likeness to her mother than to her father.

noun

Someone or something very similar in physical appearance to someone or something else

Usage examples:

An elvis presley lookalike

noun

Short for mimeograph.

noun

A duplicating machine which produces copies from a stencil, now superseded by the photocopier.

Usage examples:

When e. joyce matheny produced church bulletins, she brought them to life the old-fashioned way: wi…

verb

Make a copy of (a document) with a mimeograph.

Usage examples:

A mimeographed letter

noun

A machine that produces copies of a document using a stencil (= a piece of plastic or metal into which shapes have been cut, through which ink is forced)

Usage examples:

If we needed to copy a document, we usually used a mimeograph or carbon paper., what happened to th…

noun

A printed copy of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.

Usage examples:

They signed up for two copies of the book and ordered an additional two hundred offprints of the li…

noun

A photographic copy of printed or written material produced by a process involving the action of light on a specially prepared surface.

Usage examples:

The library provided 6,866 photographs and 51,211 photocopies of the material to its readers.

verb

Make a photocopy of.

Usage examples:

You can photocopy the entry form

noun

A copy of a document made on a photocopier

noun

A type of machine for making photocopies on special paper.

Usage examples:

What appeared to be the ink drum of a broken photostat machine rolled across the floor and glass cr…

verb

Copy (a document) with a photostat.

Usage examples:

He refused to let me photostat the book

noun

A machine used especially in the past to make photographic copies of documents, or a copy made by such a machine

Usage examples:

We like to photostat any useful pieces and circulate them to all the interested groups., it took us…

verb

Produce (books, newspapers, etc.), especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.

Usage examples:

A thousand copies of the book were printed

noun

The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication, especially with reference to its size, form, or style.

Usage examples:

She forced herself to concentrate on the tiny print

verb

The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication

noun

An exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale.

Usage examples:

A replica of the empire state building

verb

Print again or in a different form.

Usage examples:

His book was reprinted several times after his death

noun

An act of printing more copies of a work.

Usage examples:

The publishers had nearly sold out of the initial run of copies and ordered a reprint

verb

To print a book again

Usage examples:

The first edition sold out, so it is being reprinted.

noun

The action or process of copying something.

Usage examples:

The cost of colour reproduction in publication is high

noun

The act or process of producing new life

noun

A copy of something, especially a work of art or a piece of furniture

Usage examples:

The museum sells cheap reproductions of some of its key artefacts., allow plenty of time for the ph…

noun

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noun

A xerographic copying process.

Usage examples:

Printing methods include acrylic printing and colour xerox

verb

Copy (a document) by the xerox process.

Usage examples:

I shall have the typescript xeroxed today

noun

A copy of a document or other piece of paper with writing or printing on it made by a machine that uses a process similar to that for making photographs

Usage examples:

I can give you a xerox of the letter if you like., would you xerox six copies of the report, please?