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Clone   /kloʊn/   Listen
Clone

noun
1.
A person who is almost identical to another.  Synonyms: dead ringer, ringer.
2.
A group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction.  Synonym: clon.
3.
An unauthorized copy or imitation.  Synonym: knockoff.
verb
1.
Make multiple identical copies of.





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"Clone" Quotes from Famous Books



... eagerly, "the owner's name is upon the box; and see! here is a letter addressed to 'Arthur Montgomery, Bart., Clone, Lancaster County, England.' I think I ...
— Eric - or, Under the Sea • Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels
... contrariety to everything hitherto heard of, as any of our voyagers and travellers of discovery have been by the barbarous tribes who had never before seen civilized man, or as the Spaniards on their arrival in Mexico or Peru. They might, as the voyagers have clone, experience every local difference of moral temperament, from that which hailed them with acclamations, to that which often exploded in a volley of mud and stones; but through all these varieties of greetings, there was a strong sense of something ...
— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster
... set will be the people that do not belong to Him. Then He will welcome the first set, and bless them, because they have done things to the poor and miserable such as they would have liked to have done to themselves. And He will say 'Inasmuch as ye have clone it to one of the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.' " Daisy's eyes were full of ...
— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell
... to hire a girl "for general house-work," and train her for her work as waitress, than to take one who has clone nothing else but wait at table. Be particular, when engaging a girl, to tell her what she has to do, as many of the lofty kind object particularly to blacking boots; and as it must be done, it is better to define ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood


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