something made like another
duplicate, imitation
Cases of word usage
1) a person employed in an office etc to keep records and accounts, copy letters etc. (clerk)
2) an exact copy or reproduction of writing, a picture etc (facsimile)
3) a workshop where metals are heated and shaped, especially one used for making shoes for horses; (a workshop with) a furnace for melting metal; to make a copy of (e.g. a signature, banknote, will) in order to deceive (forge)
4) a likeness of copy of a god or person, especially made in wood, stone etc; a mental picture (image)
5) to (try to) copy the behaviour, appearance, sound, actions etc of (a person, animal, thing) (imitate)
6) (to make) a copy of (a document etc) using a photographic method (photocopy)
7) the quality of being real; something seen or experienced; (in art etc) a lifelike copy of the original (reality)
8) an exact copy (especially of a work of art) (replica)
9) a plastic copy of a nipple, e.g. on a baby's bottle (teat)
10) to copy (something) in ordinary writing, especially from shorthand notes or from recorded tape; to write (words) in a special form (transcribe)