What's the difference between copier and copy?

Copier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
  • (n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A gray scale hard copy unit has been adapted to an ultrasound B-scanner equipped with a video gray scale system and a conventional hard copier and a Polaroid camera.
  • (2) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Only buy newspapers, magazines, books, toilet paper and copier paper made from recycled materials 0.1 Block direct mail, choose electronic bills and statements, buy secondhand books and share papers 0.1 'I'm a frequent flyer.
  • (3) This article highlights only a few of the ways we utilize our copier.
  • (4) This article describes a simple way to circumvent major internal alteration to the Blue Ray copier to permit an easy and effective lightening process.
  • (5) Back in 1969, a graduate named Gary Starkweather, working in the copier department at Xerox in the US, had a visionary idea.
  • (6) Photographers with access rights to copiers and printers are also under strict surveillance from law enforcement agencies.
  • (7) A method of reporting results of tests performed in a hospital bacteriological laboratory is described in which a modified commercially available electrostatic copier is used.
  • (8) A report from the user's point of view, describes a system comprising the copier with computer input, slide scanner and flat copy capacity.
  • (9) The ability to link the new Canon Colour Laser Copier to a computer opens up new boundaries of data manipulation.
  • (10) Nowadays you can have full colour prints, with a scanner and copier option throw in and with pages flying out at a rate of 30 a minute, and still have change out of £50.
  • (11) A method of reproducing 35 mm slides from CT images is described which is suited to a department with access to a Delcomat film copier.
  • (12) The availability of high-resolution image digitizers, display units, and digital hard copiers has made high-resolution digital teleradiology a feasible concept.
  • (13) Our savings in both time and production costs more than offset the copier's limitations.
  • (14) The method presented in this article uses a specially constructed frame used as an accessory for one of the common commercial slide copiers.
  • (15) The latter method requires the camera back to be mounted on the photo slitlamp eyepiece and the resulting slide to be magnified by being rephotographed with a slide copier.
  • (16) We have found our office copier an indispensible aid to the department's work production.

Copy


Definition:

  • (n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.
  • (n.) An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.
  • (n.) An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.
  • (n.) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
  • (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
  • (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.
  • (n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.
  • (n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off.
  • (n.) To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.
  • (v. i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
  • (v. i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (2) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
  • (3) We have generated a series of mutants in the two copies of this motif present in human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
  • (4) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
  • (5) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (6) A method for constructing Ti plasmids bearing multiple copies of a sequence integrated in tandem is described.
  • (7) Overexpression of asparagine synthetase in beta-aspartyl hydroxamate-resistant lines without amplified copies of the gene was also correlated with DNA hypomethylation.
  • (8) This 54-bp fragment is present at about 2000-2500 copies in the bovine male genome.
  • (9) Construction of a repR-lacZ fusion proved that the increase in copy number was due to a proportional increase in the amount of RepR protein.
  • (10) The E2A mutants were propagated by growth in human cell lines which express an integrated copy of the DBP gene under the control of a dexamethasone-inducible promoter (D. F. Klessig, D. E. Brough, and V. Cleghon, Mol.
  • (11) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
  • (12) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
  • (13) All 51 undifferentiated NPCs contained significant numbers of EBV-genome copies per cell.
  • (14) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
  • (15) Programmed gene rearrangements are used in nature to to alter gene copy number (gene amplification and deletion), to create diversity by reassorting gene segments (as in the formation of mammalian immunoglobulin genes), or to control the expression of a set of genes that code for the same function (such as surface antigens).
  • (16) All three units are present in the same, probably single, copy number.
  • (17) Some derivatives of pIJ101, a 8.9 kb Streptomyces multi-copy plasmid, can co-exist with each other at similar copy numbers but others are strongly incompatible.
  • (18) Genomic southern hybridization experiments clearly indicate that the ribosomal RNA genes are unique single-copy DNA in H. cutirubrum.
  • (19) We demonstrate here that this transporter is encoded by a single family of tandemly clustered genes containing approximately 8 copies of the 3.6 kilobase repeat unit.
  • (20) There are approximately 20 copies of Tc1(Hin) amongst the Tc1's present in the Bergerac genome.

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