Book vs Copy - What's the difference?
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A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
A major division of a long work.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
The script of a musical.
(usually, in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
(legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
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(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
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To reserve (something) for future use.
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(slang) To travel very fast.
To record bets as bookmaker.
(law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
(slang) To leave.
(bake)
The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
* Denham
An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
(journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
(journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy
(marketing) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
(uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
A school work pad.
A printed edition of a book or magazine.
Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
(obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
* Holder
(obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
(genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
(label) To produce an object identical to a given object.
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(label) To imitate.
* (Dugald Stewart) (1753–1828)
To receive a transmission successfully.
In transitive terms the difference between book and copy
is that book is to write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book while copy is to imitate.book
English
(wikipedia book)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates)Cognate with (etyl) (m), . The sense development of beech'' to ''book'' is explained by the fact that smooth gray beech bark was commonly used as bookfell.J.P. Mallory, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "beech" (London: Fitroy-Dearborn, 1997), 58.Noun
(en noun)- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book .
- I have three copies of his first book .
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' to be confusing.
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
Synonyms
* (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) tome (especially a large book) * booklet * tome, volume * (script of a musical) libretto * (records of the accounts of a business) accounts, recordsDerived terms
* address book * audiobook * book account * book agent * book-answerer * book award * book-bearer * bookbinder * book-board * book-bosomed * book-bound * book-boy * book-burning * book canvasser * bookcase * book-cloth * book club * book concern * book-crab * book-credit * book-debt * book-edge gilder * book-edge marbler * book end, bookend * bookery * booketeria * book-farmer * book-folder * book-form * bookful * book-ghoul * book-gill * book hand * book-holder * bookhood * book-house * book-hunt * bookie * bookish * bookism * bookjacket * bookkeeper * bookkeeping * book-label * book-lare * book-law * book-lear * book-learned * book-learning * book-length * bookless * booklet * booklike * bookling * booklore * booklouse * book lung * bookly * bookmaker * bookmaking * bookman * bookmark, bookmarker * book match * book-mate * book-mindedness * book mite * bookmobile * book-muslin * book name * book-number * book-oath * book of first entry * book of original entry * Book of the Dead * book of the film * Book of God * book of lading * book of life * book of rates * book of reference * book of the living * book of words * book-packet * book piles * bookplate * book pocket * book-post * book-postage * book-press * book price * book prop * book-rate * book-read * bookrest * book-scorpion * bookseller * bookselling * bookshelf * bookshop * book-shy * booksie, booksy * book-slide * book-society * book-stack * bookstall * book-stamp * bookstand * bookstore * book support * booksy * book-table * book token * book trade * book-tray * book-trough * book type * book value * bookwards * book-ways * bookwise * bookwork * book-world * bookworm * book-wright * booky * bring to book * burn book * by the book * casebook * closed book * close the books * coffee-table book * comic book * cookbook * cookery book * cook the books * copybook * coursebook * e-book * exercise book * the Good Book * guidebook * handbook * hymn book * in anyone's book * in my book * in someone's bad books * in someone's good books * in the books * know like a book * logbook * make book * matchbook * notebook * off the books * on the books * open book * passbook * pension book * phrasebook * pocket-book, pocketbook * prayer book * ration book * reading book * read like a book * reference book * rough book * scrapbook * sketch book * songbook * storybook * suit one's book * take a leaf out of someone's book * talk like a book * textbook * throw the book at * without book * wordbook * workbook * yearbookSee also
* incunable * scroll * tome * volumeVerb
(en verb)- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- They booked that message from the hill
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- He was really booking , until he passed the speed trap.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- He was here earlier, but he booked .
Synonyms
* (to reserve) reserve * (to write down) make a note of, note down, record, write down * (to travel very fast) bomb (slang), hurtle, rocket (informal), speed, shoot, whiz (informal)Derived terms
* bookable * double-book * overbook * rebook * unbook * underbookEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* (l) * (l)copy
English
Noun
(copies)- Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
- That handbag is a copy . You can tell because the buckle is different.
- Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
- Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy .
- Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?
- The library has several copies of the Bible.
- His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
- Let him first learn to write, after a copy , all the letters.
- She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* carbon copy * duplicate * facsimile * image * likeness * reduplication * replica * replication * reproduction * simulacrum * fake * forgery * phony * shamAntonyms
* originalDerived terms
* advance copy * backup copy * deep copy * carbon copy * certified copy * clean copy * conformed copy * copy area * copy book * copy boy * copy cat/copycat * copy constructor * copy desk * copydom * copy editor * copy holder * copy key * copy menu * copy number * copy protection * copy room * copy ruler * copy shop * copy test * copy typist * copywriter * courtesy copy * duplicate copy * fair copy * hard copy * image copy * master copy * office copy * photocopy * presentation copy * promotional copy * reading copy * review copy * scaled copy * shallow copy * soft copy * top copy * xerox copyVerb
(en-verb)Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
- We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.