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copy-pasting

copy-pasting is the present participle and gerund of copy-paste.

Meaning of copy-paste

Verb

copy-paste (third-person singular simple present copy-pastes, present participle copy-pasting, simple past and past participle copy-pasted)

  1. (transitive) To copy (text, an object, etc.) and later paste it somewhere else.
    • It can be useful to copy-paste frames to transfer a sequence from the main timeline to the timeline of a clip symbol.2004, Corinne Hervo, Straight to the Point: Flash 5, Firewall Media, →ISBN

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Questions about copy-pasting

What is copy-pasting the present participle and gerund of?
Copy-pasting is the present participle and gerund of copy-paste.

Words near copy-pasting in the dictionary

  1. copy-pasteable
  2. copy-pasted
  3. copy-paster
  4. copy-pasters
  5. copy-pastes
  6. copy-pasting
  7. copy-pasto
  8. copy-pastos
  9. copy-protected
  10. copy.
  11. copy/paste

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copy-pasting (page history and authors); copy-paste (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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