cloning
part of speech
noun (cloning — uncountable); verb (-ing form of clone: clone, clones, cloned, cloning)
meaning for a pupil
1) (science) Making an exact copy of a living thing, with the same genes, from one of its cells. tree →
2) Making copies of plants from cuttings, which are clones of the parent plant. tree →
3) (computers) Copying something exactly, such as a hard drive or a website. tree →
4) (crime) Copying someone's bank card or phone details secretly to steal money. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons cloning is linked with Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, and with identical twins, who are natural clones. Gardeners clone plants by taking cuttings. Ethics lessons discuss whether cloning animals or people is right. In computing, cloning copies a disk or project. In money safety lessons card cloning is a crime. Phrases: animal cloning, card cloning, cloning a plant.
examples
- Dolly the sheep was made by cloning. tree →
- Taking a cutting from a geranium is a kind of cloning. tree →
- Identical twins are natural clones of each other. tree →
- Scientists debate whether cloning animals is fair. tree →
- Card cloning is when criminals copy your bank card. tree →
- We are cloning the project so each of us has a copy. tree →
note
Uncountable as a noun. Verb: clone (cloned, cloning — drop the e). Myth: a clone is not a grown-up copy that appears at once; it starts as a baby and grows normally. A clone has the same genes but is still its own individual.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cloning» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.