written account, written record - a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events

jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

anamorphosis, anamorphism - a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner

carbon copy, carbon - a copy made with carbon paper

casting, cast - object formed by a mold

duplication, duplicate - a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files"

facsimile, autotype - an exact copy or reproduction

counterfeit, forgery, imitation - a copy that is represented as the original

knockoff, clone - an unauthorized copy or imitation

miniature, toy - copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size

modification - slightly modified copy; not an exact copy; "a modification of last year's model"

photocopy - a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work

print - a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)

quadruplicate - any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly; "it was signed in quadruplicate"

replica, reproduction, replication - copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something

triplicate - one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly

xerox, xerox copy - a copy made by the xerox process

text, textual matter - the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"

dump - (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

fair copy - a clean copy of a corrected draft

filler - copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper

journalism, news media, fourth estate - newspapers and magazines collectively

material - information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"

write - mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"

recopy - copy again; "The child had to recopy the homework"

copy out - copy very carefully and as accurately as possible

conform to, follow - behave in accordance or in agreement with; "Follow a pattern"; "Follow my example"

mock - imitate with mockery and derision; "The children mocked their handicapped classmate"

reproduce - make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"

take off - mimic or imitate, especially in an amusing or satirical manner; "This song takes off from a famous aria"

mime, mimic - imitate (a person, a manner, etc.), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately"

model, pattern - plan or create according to a model or models

take after, follow - imitate in behavior; take as a model; "Teenagers follow their friends in everything"

emulate - strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister"

duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, double - make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

manifold - make multiple copies of; "multiply a letter"

create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

imitate - make a reproduction or copy of

trace - copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"

back up - make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security cop; "You'd better back up these files!"

hectograph - copy on a duplicator; "hectograph the hand-outs"

clone - make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays"

mimeo, mimeograph - print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus"

roneo - make copies on a roneograph