clone

US: /ˈkɫoʊn/
UK: /klˈə‍ʊn/


English Vietnamese dictionary


clone /kloun/
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Advanced English dictionary


noun, verb
+ noun
1 (biology) a plant or an animal that is produced artificially from the cells of another plant or animal and is therefore exactly the same as it
2 (sometimes disapproving) a person or thing that seems to be an exact copy of another: Caroline's brothers grinned alongside her, clones of their father.
3 (computing) a computer designed to work in exactly the same way as another, usually one made by a different company and more expensive
+ verb [VN] to produce an exact copy of an animal or a plant from its cells: A team from the UK were the first to successfully clone an animal. + Dolly, the cloned sheep
cloning noun [U]

Concise English dictionary


clones|cloned|cloningkləʊn
noun
+a person who is almost identical to another
+a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction
+an unauthorized copy or imitation
verb
+make multiple identical copies of