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copy and paste

copy and paste is the alternative form 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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Forms of copy and paste

Verb
third-person singular presentcopies and pastes
present participlecopying and pasting
past participlecopied and pasted
pastcopied and pasted
Noun
pluralcopy and pastes

Questions about copy and paste

What is copy and paste the alternative form of?
Copy and paste is the alternative form of copy-paste.

Words near copy and paste in the dictionary

  1. COPVs
  2. copweb
  3. copwebs
  4. copwise
  5. copy
  6. copy and paste
  7. copy and pastes
  8. copy art
  9. copy attack
  10. copy attacks
  11. copy boy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copy and paste (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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