carbon copy

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
    — In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.
  2. A duplicate or lookalike. broadly
    — This new home is simply a carbon copy of the one down the street.
  3. A duplicate copy of an email. Internet
动词 v.
  1. To create a carbon copy of. transitive
    — Please carbon copy this contract for our records.
  2. To send a duplicate copy of an email to. Internet

词形变化

carbon copies plural carbon-copy alternative carbon copies present,singular,third-person carbon copying participle,present carbon copied participle,past carbon copied past carbon-copy alternative
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