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noun
- A being involved in the action of a story.
- A symbol used to represent a sound or a word.
- A distinguishing feature; characteristic; A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
- A moral strength.
- "You may not like to eat liver," said Calvin's father, "but it builds ."
- A person with many notable or eccentric features.
- (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
- (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. Synonymous with byte in some environments.
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noun
- (greekmyth) A mythical monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
- (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.
- A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
- (architecture) A gargoyle that does not work as a waterspout.
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noun - (genetics) Either of the two strands of a chromosome that separate during mitosis.
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noun (plural: chromosomes)
- (cytology) A structure in the cell nucleus that contains DNA, histone protein, and other structural proteins.
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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.
verb (clon, ing)
- To create a clone
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noun
- A very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents
- You assigned the same "unique" to two intake-categories, causing a database error!
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- "The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code"." -Wharton
- Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (crypto) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts word, words or phrase, phrases into codeword, codewords.
- source code, Source code.
verb (codes, coding, coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (crypto) To encode.
- We should the messages we sent out on usenet.
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noun (copies)
- The result of copying (confer original); an identical duplication.
- Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- An imitation of inferior quality.
- That handbag is a . You can tell because the buckle is different.
- (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
- (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
- Submit all to the appropriate editor.
- A school work pad.
- Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths .
- A printed edition of a book or magazine.
- Have you seen the latest of "Newsweek" yet?
verb (cop, i, ed)
- (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
- Please these reports for me
- (transitive) To imitate.
- Don't my dance moves.
- Mom, he's copying me!
- (transitive) (context, radio) Receive a transmission successfully.
- Do you ?
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proper noun
- An English topographic surname for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road
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adjective
- produced by breeding from two breeds, varieties or species
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noun
- An organism produced by mate, mating of individuals of different variety, varieties or breeds.
verb (crossbreeds, crossbreeding, crossbred)
- (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mate, mating of individuals of different breeds, variety, varieties, or species; hybridize.
- (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
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noun
- fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species)
- (context, by extension) the mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit
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