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# clon

«clon» in Mova's school dictionary: **not an English word on its own** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

fragment

### meaning for a pupil

1) «Clon» is not an English word on its own. It is usually a piece of a longer word such as «clone», «cyclone» or «colon», cut off in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#m1)

2) In Irish place names «Clon-» (from Irish «cluain», a meadow) begins names such as Clonmel and Clontarf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

You meet «clon» only as part of words: «clone» (an exact copy of a living thing), «cyclone» (a huge storm). In Ireland, «Clon» begins many town names.

### examples

- «Clon» is the start of «clone». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#x1)
- A cyclone is a giant spinning storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#x2)
- Clonmel is a town in County Tipperary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#x3)
- Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#x4)
- The game lets you clone your character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#x5)
- We drove through Clontarf on the way to Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/#x6)

### note

A fragment, not a word: do not use it alone. Pronounced like «clon» in «Clonmel» (klon).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.