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# clone

«clone» in Mova's school dictionary: **an exact copy of another, with the same genes, made…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a clone, clones); verb (clone, clones, cloned, cloning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A living thing that is an exact copy of another, with the same genes, made naturally or by scientists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#m1)

2) (verb) To make such a copy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#m2)

3) (informal) Something or someone that is very like another: a cheap clone of a famous game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#m3)

4) (computing) To make an exact copy of a disk, phone or code project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, Dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell; gardeners make clones when they take cuttings, and identical twins are natural clones. In everyday talk, clone means copy. In online safety, criminals may clone a phone or bank card. Phrases: Dolly the sheep, clone a project.

### examples

- Dolly the sheep was a clone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x1)
- A cutting from a plant grows into a clone of the parent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x2)
- Identical twins are a bit like natural clones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x3)
- Scientists cloned a mouse in a laboratory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x4)
- This game is a clone of a famous one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x5)
- We cloned the code from the website. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x6)
- Criminals cloned his bank card, so he called the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: cloned. A clone has the same genes but is not the same person: it has its own memories and life. Cloning people is not allowed in most countries.

### In the corpora

- [It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/11/)
- [In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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