Meaning of "copies" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF COPIES

copies

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COPIES

Copies is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb copies in English.

WHAT DOES COPIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Copy

Copy may refer to: to copy a word from a book to a paper or laptop or computer ▪ Copying or the product of copying; the duplication of information or an artifact ▪ Cut, copy and paste, a method of reproducing text or other data in computing ▪ Photocopying, a process which makes paper copies of documents and other visual images ▪ Fax, a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, especially over the telephone network ▪ Facsimile, a copy or reproduction that is as true to the original source as possible ▪ Replica, a copy closely resembling the original concerning its shape and appearance ▪ Term of art in US copyright law meaning a material object in which a work of authorship has been embodied, such as a book ▪ Copy, a response indicating satisfactory receipt of last radio transmission ▪ Copy, a shell command ▪ Copy, written content in publications, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout ▪ Copy, the debut album of the electronica artist Mitsuki Aira ▪ Copy, the Portland-based electronic music artist...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COPIES

PRESENT

Present

I copy

you copy

he/she/it copies

we copy

you copy

they copy

Present continuous

I am copying

you are copying

he/she/it is copying

we are copying

you are copying

they are copying

Present perfect

I have copied

you have copied

he/she/it has copied

we have copied

you have copied

they have copied

Present perfect continuous

I have been copying

you have been copying

he/she/it has been copying

we have been copying

you have been copying

they have been copying

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I copied

you copied

he/she/it copied

we copied

you copied

they copied

Past continuous

I was copying

you were copying

he/she/it was copying

we were copying

you were copying

they were copying

Past perfect

I had copied

you had copied

he/she/it had copied

we had copied

you had copied

they had copied

Past perfect continuous

I had been copying

you had been copying

he/she/it had been copying

we had been copying

you had been copying

they had been copying

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will copy

you will copy

he/she/it will copy

we will copy

you will copy

they will copy

Future continuous

I will be copying

you will be copying

he/she/it will be copying

we will be copying

you will be copying

they will be copying

Future perfect

I will have copied

you will have copied

he/she/it will have copied

we will have copied

you will have copied

they will have copied

Future perfect continuous

I will have been copying

you will have been copying

he/she/it will have been copying

we will have been copying

you will have been copying

they will have been copying

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would copies

you would copies

he/she/it would copies

we would copies

you would copies

they would copies

Conditional continuous

I would be copying

you would be copying

he/she/it would be copying

we would be copying

you would be copying

they would be copying

Conditional perfect

I would have copies

you would have copies

he/she/it would have copies

we would have copies

you would have copies

they would have copies

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been copying

you would have been copying

he/she/it would have been copying

we would have been copying

you would have been copying

they would have been copying

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you copy
we let´s copy
you copy

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to copy

Past participle

copied

Present Participle

copying

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «COPIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «copies» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of copies

ape · carbon copy · counterfeit · duplicate · echo · emulate · facsimile · fake · fax · follow · follow suit · forgery · image · imitate · imitation · likeness · mimic · mirror · parrot · photocopy · print · repeat · replica · replicate · replication · representation · reproduce · reproduction · simulate · transcribe · transcription · Xerox

TRANSLATION OF COPIES

Find out the translation of copies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of copies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «copies» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 副本
• Translator English - Spanish: copias
• English: copies
• Translator English - Hindi: प्रतियां
• Translator English - Arabic: نسخ
• Translator English - Russian: копии
• Translator English - Portuguese: cópias
• Translator English - Bengali: কপি
• Translator English - French: copies
• Translator English - Malay: Salinan
• Translator English - German: Kopien
• Translator English - Japanese: コピーを
• Translator English - Korean: 복사
• Translator English - Javanese: Salinan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bản sao
• Translator English - Tamil: பிரதிகள்
• Translator English - Marathi: प्रती
• Translator English - Turkish: kopyalar
• Translator English - Italian: copie
• Translator English - Polish: kopie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: копії
• Translator English - Romanian: copii
• Translator English - Greek: αντίγραφα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: afskrifte
• Translator English - Swedish: kopior
• Translator English - Norwegian: kopier

10 QUOTES WITH «COPIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word copies.

1

Jensen Ackles

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

2

Jensen Ackles

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

3

Renata Adler

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

4

Colin Angle

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

5

Kurt Angle

When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I didn't come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock.

6

Gerry Beckley

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

7

Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

8

William S. Burroughs

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

9

John Carmack

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

10

Jung Chang

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COPIES»

Discover the use of copies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to copies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown ...

David Owen's fascinating narrative tells the story of the machine nobody thought we needed but now we can't live without.

David Owen, 2008

Ancient Sculptural Copies in Miniature

By examining the popular genre of the copy, the book illuminates broad questions of Roman sculptural production and the methodological limitations of traditional approaches to the subject.

Elizabeth Bartman, 1992

Copies Versus Cognates in Bound Morphology

Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology puts genealogical and areal explanation for shared morphology in a balanced perspective.

Lars Johanson, Martine Robbeets, 2012

Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries

This book aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the subject over a wide range of materials, emphasising how the fakes and forgeries are produced and how they may be detected by technical and scientific examination.

Paul Craddock, 2009

Fair Copies: Reproducing the English Lyric from Tottel to ...

In the latter half of the sixteenth century, English poets and printers experimented widely with a new literary format, the printed collection of lyric poetry.

Matthew Zarnowiecki, 2014

Summary: Copies In Seconds - David Owen

This work offers a summary of the book “COPIES IN SECONDS: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg – Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine” by David Owen.

BusinessNews Publishing, 2013

Pantographia;: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known ...

A work on printing featuring two hundred alphabets including Chaldee and Greek.

Edmund Fry, 1799

Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China

Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and spot-welded to ...

Bianca Bosker, 2013

My Cat Copies Me

A shy little girl and her very independent cat play, hide, and comfort one another as the cat silently encourages the girl to explore the bigger world and experience new things.

‎2007

Two copies of verses, on the meeting of king Charles the ...

... TWO COPIES OF VERSES, mttttnq of King otarle» tir ¿Fíwt anB mi* Oueeii Igenrietta^jHaria, IN THE VALLEY OF KINETON, BELOW EDGE-HILL, IN WARWICKSHIRE, July 13, 1043. □»««♢*♢» 'XIII- IW ^CAROIl-iFir-ÄW 'M-B-F-E1T -H- ...

William Hamper, 1822

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COPIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term copies is used in the context of the following news items.

Steam hit Ark: Survival Evolved has already sold 1m copies

Ark: Survival Evolved, the dinosaur game currently the top selling title on Steam, has sold one million copies. It hit the milestone in just 30 days ... «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»

Vince Staples' “Summertime 06” Album Sold Under 5K Copies…or Not

Through a little bit of common sense, one could only assume that Vince Staples sold under the the 5,413 copies the current #50 (the Alabama ... «DJBooth.net, Jul 15»

Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other …

Carson's book, One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America's Future, has sold a whopping 362,813 hardcover copies to date, according ... «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»

Hrithik Roshan Copies Salman Khan

We know how Salman Khan is a big fan of Sylvester Stallone! He had even revealed it on Twitter as to how much Sylvester Stallone inspires ... «FilmiBeat, Jul 15»

Mighty No 9 Copies Mega Man And Insults Comcept's Old Home …

Kamiya had some words for the highly successful Kickstarter headed by former coworker Keiji Inafune. by Ryan Parreno on 7th Jul, 2015 ... «Gameranx, Jul 15»

Literally, Dulat's book sells like hot cakes in Valley: 100 copies in 2 …

Former Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief AS Dulat's book is selling like hot cakes in Kashmir, literally. Hundred copies vanished in ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»

'PE Express' grows to 100?000 copies

“The demand from our readers for more copies to be printed proves that print is indeed not a dying breed if a publication, while changing with ... «News24, Jul 15»

Robbins to sign copies of new book on July 10

Local children's book author Patricia “Willy” Robbins will autograph copies of her book “Brooding School Blues” on July 10 at All Star Sports in ... «Buffalo Reflex, Jul 15»

Jimmy Carter signs copies of his book 'A Full Life'

Former United States President Jimmy Carter signs copies of his book "A Full Life" at Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue in New York City on July 7, ... «UPI.com, Jul 15»

July Brings Three Times as Many Complimentary Author Copies For …

Leading self-publishing services provider Outskirts Press offers three times the amount of complimentary author copies to authors publishing a ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»