| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | element |
| Synonyms: | charcoal, coal, coke, copy, graphite, lead, replica, soot |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off, limn, manifold, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe |
| Notes: | Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make deceitful imitation |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, circulate bad money, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, do like, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, go like, imitate, impersonate, knock off, make like, make money, mimeo, mimic, mint, phony up, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, stat |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copy, reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, analogue, carbon, carbon copy, chip off the old block, clone, companion, coordinate, copycat, correlate, counterfeit, counterpart, counterscript, dead ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplication, facsimile, fake, fellow, germination, imitation, knockoff, likeness, lookalike, match, mate, obverse, parallel, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate, reciprocal, recurrence, repetition, replica, replication, repro, ringer, second, similarity, spitting image, stat, twin |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
| Antonyms: | archetype, model, original, prototype |
| Main Entry: | equivalent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | same, similar |
| Synonyms: | agnate, akin, alike, analogous, carbon, commensurate, comparable, convertible, copy, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, ditto*, duplicate, equal, even, homologous, identical, indistinguishable, interchangeable, like, of a kind, parallel, proportionate, reciprocal, same difference, substitute, synonymous, tantamount |
| Antonyms: | changeable, different, dissimilar, mismatched, unequal, unlike |
| Main Entry: | facsimile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon, carbon copy, chip off old block, clone, copy, copycat, dead ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplicate, knock-off, likeness, look-alike, mimeo, miniature, mirror, photocopy, photostat, print, reduplication, replica, replication, repro, ringer, spitting image, stat, transcript, twin |
| Antonyms: | original |
| Main Entry: | forgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counterfeiting; counterfeit item |
| Synonyms: | bogus*, carbon copy, carbon, cheat, coining, copy, fabrication, fake, faking, falsification, fraudulence, imitating, imitation, imposition, imposture, lookalike, phony, pseudo, sham*, twin, workalike |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
| Main Entry: | image |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | representation; counterpart |
| Synonyms: | angel*, appearance, carbon copy, carbon, carved figure, chip off old block, copy, dead ringer, double, drawing, effigy, equal, equivalent, facsimile, figure, form, icon, idol, illustration, likeness, match, model, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, reflection, replica, reproduction, similitude, simulacre, simulacrum, spitting image, statue |
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, be like, borrow, burlesque, carbon, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do likewise, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, forge, impersonate, look like, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, model after, parallel, parody, pattern after, personate, play a part, pretend, put on*, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, reproduce, resemble, send up, sham, simulate, spoof, take off, travesty |
| Notes: | emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks |
| Antonyms: | be original, clash, differ, oppose, reverse |