clone
part of speech
noun (a clone, clones); verb (clone, clones, cloned, cloning)
meaning for a pupil
1) A living thing that is an exact copy of another, with the same genes, made naturally or by scientists. tree →
2) (verb) To make such a copy. tree →
3) (informal) Something or someone that is very like another: a cheap clone of a famous game. tree →
4) (computing) To make an exact copy of a disk, phone or code project. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons, Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell; gardeners make clones when they take cuttings, and identical twins are natural clones. In everyday talk, clone means copy. In online safety, criminals may clone a phone or bank card. Phrases: Dolly the sheep, clone a project.
examples
- Dolly the sheep was a clone. tree →
- A cutting from a plant grows into a clone of the parent. tree →
- Identical twins are a bit like natural clones. tree →
- Scientists cloned a mouse in a laboratory. tree →
- This game is a clone of a famous one. tree →
- We cloned the code from the website. tree →
- Criminals cloned his bank card, so he called the bank. tree →
note
Regular verb: cloned. A clone has the same genes but is not the same person: it has its own memories and life. Cloning people is not allowed in most countries.
In the corpora
- It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools.
- In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «clone» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.