clone

UK /kloʊn/ US /kloʊn/
noun 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.

3

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

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

4

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.”

5

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

1

To create a clone of.

The scientists were able to clone a sheep.

We cloned the database to perform some testing.

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