clone

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/kloʊn/

noun 5verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

able, digital, identical, live, loose, many, original, walid

Scientists created identical clone sheep in the laboratory decades ago.

VERB + CLONE

cloning, creating, decided, died, glanced, make

The scientists decided to clone the sheep in order to study genetic diseases.

CLONE + NOUN

army, conlangs, himself, hundreds, mammoths, mimosa, minecraft, nobody

Scientists are working to clone woolly mammoths using preserved DNA from frozen remains.

PREP.

on, out, without

Scientists were able to clone the sheep without using any genetic material from the mother.

Definitions

noun

A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.

This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.

A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.

A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.

The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.

A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.

Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.”

A Castro clone.

Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.

By mid-1983, I had grown weary of reading literature by white gay men who fell, quite easily, into three camps: the incestuous literati of Manhattan and Fire Island, the San Francisco cropped-mustache-clones, and the Boston-to-Cambridge politically correct radical faggots.

verb

To create a clone of.

The scientists were able to clone a sheep.

We cloned the database to perform some testing.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an unauthorized copy or imitation

knockoff

noun — a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived

clon

noun — a person who is almost identical to another

ringer

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.

Wiktionary

The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.

Wiktionary

The scientists were able to clone a sheep.

Wiktionary

We cloned the database to perform some testing.

Wiktionary

Living in a colony on Titan, Tomas' grandson was a clone of his son, who was a clone of himself, Tomas. They were three generations of clones.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, clone is marked as informal, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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