Lexic.us

Definition of Clone

1. Noun. A person who is almost identical to another.

2. Verb. Make multiple identical copies of. "People can clone a sheep nowadays"

3. Noun. A group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction.

4. Noun. An unauthorized copy or imitation.

Definition of Clone

1. Noun. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. ¹

2. Noun. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it. ¹

3. Noun. A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.[ ¹

4. Verb. To create a clone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clone

1. to reproduce by asexual means [v CLONED, CLONING, CLONES]

Medical Definition of Clone

1. A propagating population of organisms, either single cell or multicellular, derived from a single progenitor cell. Such organisms should be genetically identical, though mutation events may abrogate this. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clone

clompy clonable clonal anergy clonal deletion clonal deletion theory clonal expansion clonal selection clonal selection theory clonalities clonality

clonally clonazepam clone bank clone cells clone town clone towns cloneable cloned cloner cloners

clones clonewheel organ clong clonic clonic convulsion clonic seizure

Literary usage of Clone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"You can use the clone as a backup in case your system gets corrupted or as a ... Additionally, on request, clone'X can save your applications folder so that ..."

2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"... he think that the water hath done deliberating whether it will go over the banks, but hath not clone deliberating whether it will go up the channel". ..."

3. Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript by William Bradford, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (1899)
"And therfore in all respects I doe not see but you have clone marvelously discreetly, & advisedly, and no doubt but it gives all parties good con- ten tc ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"... that from the brightest ¡md highest exemplars of true practical religiou have come the severest rebukes of the bigotry and intolerance •which huve clone ..."

5. Opinions of Eminent Lawyers, on Various Points of English Jurisprudence by George Chalmers (1814)
"... as if clone by himself, and only to be set aside the same way : therefore, offices held tinder the seal of this province are no more voided by the ..."

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