clone

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Related topics: Biology, Computers, Microbes, genetics, biochem

clone1 /kləʊn $ kloʊn/ noun [countableC]

1. HB technical an animal or plant produced by scientists from one cell of another animal or plant, so that they are exactly the same 克隆动物[植物]，无性繁殖的个体

2 TD technical a computer that is built as an exact copy of a more famous computer 仿制的计算机

an IBM clone

IBM仿制机

3 informalSAME someone or something that looks and behaves exactly the same as someone or something else 极为相似的人[物]

clone of

She’s an exact clone of her sister!

她简直就是她姐姐的翻版！

Examples from the Corpus

clone• The 50 clones differed on average from one another in 3. 3 vegetative characters.• These plants are all clones of the same original plant.• He produced bigger clones by embryo splitting, once deriving a set of quin lambs from an eight-cell embryo.• The cDNA clones were sequenced from both ends using standard forward and reverse primers.• It is making arrangements outside for continued support of its clone customers.• Power Computing was packed with show-goers curious to see the new, low-cost, high-performance Mac clones.• When counting the number of links between two probes, missing clones are clearly of no relevance.• Can the day of the Stratocaster clone be gone?• Quite distinct phenotypic modifications were elicited from the clone by the different ryegrass strains.

Related topics: Microbes, genetics, biochem

clone2 verb [transitiveT]

1. COPYto make an exact copy of a plant or animal by taking a cell from it and developing it artificially 克隆，使无性繁殖

2. to copy the number of someone else’s mobile phone onto a new chip and then use that number on a different telephone, so that the mobile phone’s owner receives the telephone bill 盗用〔他人的手机号码〕

Examples from the Corpus

clone• It is only a matter of time before we are able to clone human beings.• The process allowed Scottish scientists to clone the sheep named Dolly.• Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves.

From Longman Business Dictionary

cloneclone1 /kləʊnkloʊn/ noun [countableC]

COMPUTING a computer that is almost an exact copy of a different type of computer and can use programs that were written for it

an IBM clone

cloneclone2 verb [transitiveT]

to copy the details from someone’s bank card or credit card in order to illegally create a new card

I contacted the bank and was told my debit card had been cloned and my account had been emptied.

Origin clone1

(1900-2000) Greek klon “small branch”

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