Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- UK Pronunciation
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- [klohn]
- /kloʊn/
- /kləʊn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [klohn]
- /kloʊn/
Definitions of clone word
- countable noun clone If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them. 3
- countable noun clone A clone is an animal or plant that has been produced artificially, for example in a laboratory, from the cells of another animal or plant. A clone is exactly the same as the original animal or plant. 3
- verb clone To clone an animal or plant means to produce it as a clone. 3
- noun clone a group of organisms or cells of the same genetic constitution that are descended from a common ancestor by asexual reproduction, as by cuttings, grafting, etc, in plants 3
- noun clone a segment of DNA that has been isolated and replicated by laboratory manipulation: used to analyse genes and manufacture their products (proteins) 3
- noun clone a person or thing bearing a very close resemblance to another person or thing 3
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Origin of clone
First appearance:
before 1900 One of the 17% newest English words
First recorded in 1900-05, clone is from the Greek word klṓn a slip, twig
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Clone
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
clone popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
clone usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for clone
verb clone
- reproduce — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- copy — If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
- repeat — repeat loop
noun clone
- replica — a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
- twin — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
adjective clone
- aforementioned — If you refer to the aforementioned person or subject, you mean the person or subject that has already been mentioned.
- carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
- lookalike — a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
- selfsame — being the very same; identical.
Antonyms for clone
noun clone
- original — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
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