Copy-and-paste

Full definition of copy-and-paste

Noun

1. Alternative form of en
• 2008, Bill Evjen, Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB, We mention XCOPY here because it is the command-line way of basically doing a copy-and-paste of the files you want to move.
• 2014, Laura Watts, Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design Chapter Liminal Futures: Poem for Islands at the Edge, I am not arguing for a copy-and-paste of Orkney future-making practices to urban centers of design and innovation.
• 2018, Youngjun Kim, Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War, The KPA’s works were beyond copy-and-pastes of the Soviet works.

Verb

1. Alternative form of en
• 1997, Elaine Weinmann, Photoshop 4 for Macintosh, Image and filter sequences were composed using Photoshop layers and then copy-and-pasted onto Director’s Internal Cast palette.
• 4 October 2013, Mallika Rao, Damien Hirst's Children's Book, Reviewed By A Six-Year-Old Painter (PHOTOS), But instead of designing new work for this new offering, Hirst, do-nothing artist of our time, simply copy-and-pasted his old stuff.
• 2014, Kjetil Tronvoll, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea, Even the very title of Proclamation No. 23/1992 was simply copy-and-pasted onto Proclamation No. 37/1993.
• 2016, Kakali Bhattacharya, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, I simply copy-and-pasted it from the original pilot-project article – the one I had turned over to Dr. Bhattacharya last fall because I could no longer bear looking at it.
• 2017, Yuriko Haga, New Technology, Big Data and the Law Chapter Right to be Forgotten: A New Privacy Right in the Era of Internet, Called in Japanese language “matome “compilation” site”; it designates a round-up and add-up site which collects and “copy-and-pastes” information from other websites, SNS or anonymous textboards,.
• 2022, Benedikt Peschl, The First Three Hymns of the AhunauuaitÄ« Gāθā: The Avestan Text of Yasna 28–30 and Its Tradition, Following his aim of linguistically adapting the quote to its new Young Avestan context, he replaced the Old Avestan stem drÉ™guuaṇt- by its regular Young Avestan equivalent druuaṇt- and removed the characteristic Old Avestan final long vowels, which are usually maintained when an Old Avestan passage is simply ‘copy-and-pasted’ into a Young Avestan environment.