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Cloned vs Cloyed - What's the difference?

cloned | cloyed |

As verbs the difference between cloned and cloyed

is that cloned is (clone) while cloyed is (cloy).

cloned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (clone)

    • Anagrams

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    clone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
  • A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
  • A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.[http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2754]

    • Derived terms

    * holoclone * meroclone * paraclone * polyclone

    Verb

    (clon)
  • To create a clone.

    • References

    * C.L. Pollard. "'Clon' versus 'clone'". Science (new series) 22:469, 1905. * C.L. Pollard. "On the spelling of 'clon'". Science (new series) 22:87-88, 1905. * W.T. Stearn. "The use of the term 'clone'". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 74:41-47, 1949. ----

    cloyed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cloy)

    • cloy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  • To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

    Synonyms

    * (fill or choke up) block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up * (satiate) fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up * (fill to loathing) jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit