copy and paste

A form of copy-paste — The action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else.

Meanings

verbcopy and paste (third-person singular simple present copies and pastes, present participle copying and pasting, simple past and past participle copied and pasted)

present singular third person copies and pastes · participle present copying and pasting · participle past copied and pasted · past copied and pasted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of copy-paste.
nouncopy and paste (plural copy and pastes)

plural copy and pastes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of copy-paste.

    The log should include links, screenshots, or copy and pastes of the specific commands you ran as well as a short explanation for why you did this.

    2015, Megan Squire, Clean Data: Save Time by Discovering Effortless Strategies for Cleaning, Organizing, and Manipulating Your Data (Community Experience Distilled), Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 4
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    Note that the console listings are straight copy and pastes from the machines used to actually run this exploit—you see exactly what I saw while I ran it.

    2010, Ryan Trost, Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century, Pearson Education, →ISBN

    One of the concerns I had when considering adopting PeerWise was in relation to students doing a copy and paste of questions and not creating their own.

    2019, Suzanne Fergus, “Using PeerWise to support the transition to higher education”, in Michael K. Seery, Claire Mc Donnell, editors, Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Tina Overton, Creathach Press, →ISBN, page 184
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “copy and paste,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copy%20and%20paste.

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