What is another word for Xeroxing?

Pronunciation: [zˈi͡əɹɒksɪŋ] (IPA)

Xeroxing is the act of making a photocopy, and while it may be a trademarked term, it's also become a ubiquitous term for copying documents. However, there are several potential synonyms for "Xeroxing," including duplicating, replicating, photocopying, reproducing, cloning, mimicking, imitating, emulating, mirroring, and copying. Each of these words implies a slightly different approach to document copying, but all have the same basic meaning. Whether you're producing a hard copy of a document or reproducing important records, using synonyms for Xeroxing allows you to add some variety to your vocabulary while still communicating the same concept.

What are the hypernyms for Xeroxing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Xeroxing

  • —What did you do today? —Went to the grocery store and Xeroxed a box of English muffins, two pounds of ground veal and an apple. In flagrant violation of the Copyright Act. —You had your nap, I remember that— —I had my nap. —Lunch, I remember that, there was lunch, slept with Susie after lunch, then your nap, woke up, right?, went Xeroxing, right?, read a book not a whole book but part of a book— —Talked to Happy on the telephone saw the seven o’clock news did not wash dishes want to clean up some of this mess? —If one does nothing but listen to the new music, everything else drifts, frays. Did Odysseus feel this way when he and Diomedes decided to steal Athene’s statue from the Trojans, so that they would become dejected and lose the war? I don’t think so, but who is to know what effect the new music of that remote time had on its hearers? —Or how it compares to the new music of this time? —One can only conjecture.
    Donald Barthelme

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