clone
See also: cloné
English
Etymology
Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.
Pronunciation
- enPR: klōn
- (General American) IPA(key): /kloʊn/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kləʊn/
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Noun
clone (plural clones)
- A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (cytology) A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
- The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.
- (informal) A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
- 2017, Allyson Kennedy, Can't Beat the Heart of a Carolina Girl:
- Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.”
- (LGBT, slang) A Castro clone.
- 1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7:
- Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.
- 1991 August 31, Arnold M. Zwicky, “What the hell is a TWINKIE?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
- these are cultural categories. they change over time. new ones appear (the Leatherman is recent, the Bear very recent), old ones vanish (though individual aunties and clones are still to be found - arch-clone jimmy pike is still making videos and keeping his stomach muscles in great shape - the Auntie and the Clone as generally recognized categories are no longer with us).
- 2022, Richard Vytniorgu, “Effeminate Gay Bottoms in the West”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 70, number 10, page 2113:
- Since the Second World War and the rise of the middle-class “clone gay” in the US and a similar move away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.
Derived terms
- agroclone
- binary clone
- clonability
- clonable
- clonal
- cloneable
- cloneless
- clonelike
- clonemate
- clone town
- clonewheel organ
- clonish
- clonism
- clonology
- clonotype
- Doom clone
- epiclone
- Euroclone
- Famiclone
- hemiclone
- holoclone
- interclone
- meroclone
- microclone
- monoclone
- nonclone
- oligoclone
- paraclone
- Pikaclone
- polyclone
- protoclone
- re-clone
- snowclone
- subclone
- superclone
- teleclone
Translations
living organism (originally a plant)
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group of identical cells derived from a single cell
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copy of something already existing
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Verb
clone (third-person singular simple present clones, present participle cloning, simple past and past participle cloned)
- (transitive) To create a clone of.
- The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
- We cloned the database to perform some testing.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Thai: โคลน (kloon)
Translations
create a clone
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References
- H.J. Webber. "New Horticultural and Agricultural Terms". Science (new series) 18:501-503, 1903, DOI: 10.1126/science.18.459.501-b.
- C.L. Pollard. "'Clon' versus 'clone'". Science (new series) 22:469, 1905.
- C.L. Pollard. "On the spelling of 'clon'". Science (new series) 22:87-88, 1905.
- W.T. Stearn. "The use of the term 'clone'". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 74:41-47, 1949.
Asturian
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”).
Derived terms
Verb
clone
- inflection of cloner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “clone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklo.ne/[1]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -one
- Hyphenation: cló‧ne
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklo.ne/, /ˈklon/[1]
- Rhymes: -one, -on
- Hyphenation: cló‧ne, clóne
References
- clone in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈklo.ni/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈklo.ne/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈklɔ.nɨ/
- Hyphenation: clo‧ne
Noun
clone m (plural clones)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
clone
- inflection of clonar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
clone
- inflection of clonar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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