Copy vs Piece - What's the difference?
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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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, title= To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
(label) To imitate.
* (Dugald Stewart) (1753–1828)
To receive a transmission successfully.
A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
A single item belonging to a class of similar items: as, for example, a piece of machinery, a piece of software.
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, title= (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
* 1959 , (Hans Kmoch), Pawn Power in Chess , I:
A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
An artillery gun.
(US, Canada, colloquial) (short for hairpiece); a toupee or wig, usually when worn by a man.
A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 46:
(US, colloquial) A gun.
(US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail
(US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) (short for "piece of crap") a shoddy or worthless object, usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances.
(US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
(baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with got, and never used in the plural.
(dated, sometimes, derogatory) An individual; a person.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
(obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
(US) A pacifier.
(transitive, usually, with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
* Fuller
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out .
(slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)
* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
In obsolete terms the difference between copy and piece
is that copy is copyhold; tenure; lease while piece is a castle; a fortified building.As nouns the difference between copy and piece
is that copy is the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original while piece is a part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.As verbs the difference between copy and piece
is that copy is to produce an object identical to a given object while piece is to assemble (something real or figurative).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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* copyable * copy and paste * copy down * copy-edit * copy out * deep-copyStatistics
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Alternative forms
* peece (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
- Pawns, unlike pieces , move only in one direction: forward.
- a sixpenny piece
- My grannie came and gived them all a piece and jam and cups of water then I was to bring them back out to the street and play a game.
- If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him.
- Thy mother was a piece of virtue.
- His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoUsage notes
When used as a baseball term, the term is idiomatic in that the baseball is almost never broken into pieces. It is rare in modern baseball for the cover of a baseball to even partially tear loose. In professional baseball, several new, not previously played baseballs are used in each game. It could be argued that the phrase was never meant (not even metaphorically) to refer to breaking the ball into pieces, and that "get a piece of the ball" means the bat contacts only a small area of the ball - in other words, that the ball is hit off-center. In that case "get" would mean "succeed in hitting", not "obtain".Derived terms
* bits and pieces * piecemeal * piecen * piece of cake * piece of eight * piece of the actionSee also
*See also
* chunk * bitVerb
(piec)- These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.
- His adversaries pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.
- to piece a garment
- (Shakespeare)
- It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece ; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
- It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing .