copy-paste

plural copy-pastes · alternative copy/paste · alternative copypaste · alternative copy and paste · alternative copy-and-paste

1. countableuncountablecomputingThe action of duplicating (text, an object, etc.) by copying it and later pasting somewhere else.

   Paragraphs, images or diagrams are frequently assembled manually by copy-paste actions.

   2007, Katrien Herbert, Erik Duval, "Evaluating the ALOCOM Approach for Scalable Content Repurposing", Creating New Learning Experiences on a Global Scale (), Springer →ISBN, page 364

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   Optimizing your META Keywords field is remarkably easy, especially if you have just optimized your page titles. All you need to do is a simple copy-paste.

   2009, Stephen Woessner, The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization: Increase Your Google Rankings, Double Your Site Traffic... in Just 15-Steps - Guaranteed, Atlantic Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 114

   It also has disadvantages; for one thing, the lack of focus on program structure leads to lots of copy-paste programming and poorly structured programs. Language workbenches support developing new kinds of programming platforms like this.

   2010, Martin Fowler, Domain-Specific Languages, Pearson Education, →ISBN

2. countableinformaluncountablecomputingMaterial incorporated into another work with minimal or no changes.

   The interesting fact, however, is that the Regulation takes as a model, or better to say it is mostly a copy-paste of the text, of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods rather than being adjusted to the needs of Kosovo.

   2013, Ronald A Brand, D Wes Rist, The Export of Legal Education, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 101

3. countableuncountableAn idea, design, or action lacks originality, as if it was simply duplicated from somewhere else.
4. countableuncountableA clone of something, figuratively or otherwise.

present singular third person copy-pastes · participle present copy-pasting · participle past copy-pasted · past copy-pasted · alternative copy/paste · alternative copypaste · alternative copy and paste · alternative copy-and-paste

1. transitivecomputingTo copy (text, an object, etc.) and later paste it somewhere else.

   It can be useful to copy-paste frames to transfer a sequence from the main timeline to the timeline of a clip symbol.

   2004, Corinne Hervo, Straight to the Point: Flash 5, Firewall Media, →ISBN

comparative more copy-paste · superlative most copy-paste · alternative copy/paste · alternative copypaste · alternative copy and paste · alternative copy-and-paste

1. informalIdentical or very similar, as though copied and pasted.