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# clone

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

«clone» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A living thing that is an exact copy of another, with the same genes, made naturally or by scientists. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#m1)
2. (verb) To make such a copy. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/#m4)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clone» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clone/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clone» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/clone.html) on Mova free.