Copier

Definition

copy /'kɒpi/ n ၁။ [C] ပံုတူ။ မိတၱဴ။ ေကာ္ပီ။ Is this the original drawing or is it a copy? ❍ a perfect copy ❍ Make three carbon copies of the letter. ၂။ = PHOTOCOPY ၃။ [C] (ေကာ္ပီ)တစ္ေစာင္။ Have you a copy of yesterday's 'Times', please? ❍ If you can't afford a new copy of the book, perhaps you can find a second-hand one. ❍ You receive the top copy of the receipt, and we keep the carbon. ၄။ [U] စာမူ။ She has handed in her copy to the editor. ❍ The government crisis will make good copy. ❍ prepare copy for a brochure. v ( pt, pp copied ) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (down/ out) (from/ off sth) (in/ into sth) (စာ)ကူးသည္။ The teacher wrote the sums on the board, and the children copied them down in their exercise books. ❍ copy out a letter (ie write it out again completely) ❍ copy notes (from a book, etc) into a notebook. (ခ) မိတၱဴပြားသည္။ မူပြားသည္။ copy documents on a photocopier. ၂။ အတုခိုးသည္။ တုသည္။ She's a good writer: try to copy her style. ❍ Don't always copy what the others do; use your own ideas. ၃။ ~ (from/ off sb) ကူးခ်သည္။ ခိုးခ်သည္။ She was punished for copying (off one of her friends) during the examination. ❏ copier n = PHOTOCOPIER

Examples

1. [copy of] : Please enclose a copy of your birth certificate.
2. Keep back-up copies of all your Word files.
3. [make a copy (of something)] : I made copies of the report for the meeting.
4. The disease occurs if someone inherits two copies of an abnormal gene.
5. It’s not a genuine Tudor table
6. but it’s a good copy.
7. Her first album sold 100
8. 000 copies.
9. [copy of] : Have you got a copy of yesterday’s newspaper?
10. Copy for our April issue must be submitted by 20th March.
11. [good/great/interesting etc copy] : His controversial remarks always make good copy.