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copying down

copying down is the present participle and gerund of copy down.

Meaning of copy down

Verb

copy down (third-person singular simple present copies down, present participle copying down, simple past and past participle copied down)

  1. To copy something written, drawn, spoken (e.g. on a whiteboard) onto a sheet of paper, notebook etc.

Questions about copying down

What is copying down the present participle and gerund of?
Copying down is the present participle and gerund of copy down.

Words near copying down in the dictionary

  1. copyholding
  2. copyholdings
  3. copyholds
  4. copying
  5. copying and pasting
  6. copying down
  7. copying paper
  8. copying press
  9. copying presses
  10. copyings
  11. copyism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copying down (page history and authors); copy down (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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