Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense clones, present participle cloning, past tense, past participle cloned
1. countable noun
If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that theyseem to be exactly the same as them.
Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.
Designers are mistaken if they believe we all want to be supermodel clones.
2. countable noun
A clone is an animal or plant that has been produced artificially, for example in a laboratory, from the cells of another animal or plant. A clone is exactly thesame as the original animal or plant.
3. verb
To clone an animal or plant means to produce it as a clone.
The idea of cloning extinct life forms still belongs to science fiction. [VERB noun]
clone in British English
(kləʊn)
noun
1.
a group of organisms or cells of the same genetic constitution that are descended from a common ancestor by asexual reproduction, as by cuttings, grafting, etc, in plants
2. Also called: gene clone
a segment of DNA that has been isolated and replicated by laboratory manipulation: used to analyse genes and manufacture their products (proteins)
3. informal
a person or thing bearing a very close resemblance to another person or thing
4. slang
a.
a mobile phone that has been given the electronic identity of an existing mobile phone, so that calls made on the second phone are charged to the owner of the first phone
b.
any similar object or device, such as a credit card, that has been given the electronic identity of another device usually in order tocommit theft
verb
5.
to produce or cause to produce a clone
6. informal
to produce near copies (of a person or thing)
7. (transitive) slang
to give (a mobile phone, etc) the electronic identity of an existing mobile phone(or other device), so that calls, purchases, etc made with the second device are charged to the owner of the first device
Derived forms
clonal (ˈclonal)
adjective
clonally (ˈclonally)
adverb
Word origin
C20: from Greek klōn twig, shoot; related to klan to break
clone in American English
(kloʊn)
US
noun
1. Biology
all the descendants derived asexually from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, etc. or by fission, parthenogenesis, etc.
2.
an individual produced by cloning
3. Informal
a person or thing very much like another
4. Computing
a hardware or software product, esp. a personal computer, designed to function like an original, typically higher-priced, productfrom another manufacturer
verb transitiveWord forms: cloned or ˈcloning
5.
to produce by cloning
6. Informal
to make a copy of; imitate
Derived forms
clonal (ˈclonal)
adjective
clonally (ˈclonally)
adverb
Word origin
< Gr klōn, a twig < klan, to break: see clastic
Examples of 'clone' in a sentence
clone
Cambridge is already becoming a clone town.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Such attempts typically produce hollow clones who mirror one another in an embarrassing spectacle of political pandering.
Christianity Today (2000)
Yet with free smartphone apps crooks can clone the card just by standing next to their victim.
The Sun (2013)
The details were then used to clone bank cards and withdraw cash.
The Sun (2006)
Are the animals in question clones?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We are just a clone town.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The mentality that now promotes the cloning of farm animals is no different from the one that championed factory farming and chicken nuggets.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We don't want a clone high street.
The Sun (2012)
Then the criminals use a magnet strip card writer - also bought on the internet - to clone your cards.
The Sun (2006)
In other languages
clone
British English: clone /kləʊn/ NOUN
similar If someone or something is a clone of another person or thing, they are so similar to this person or thing that they seem to be exactly the same as them.
Tom was in some ways a younger clone of his handsome father.
American English: clone
Arabic: اِسْتِنْسَاخ
Brazilian Portuguese: clone
Chinese: 克隆
Croatian: klon
Czech: klon
Danish: klon
Dutch: kloon
European Spanish: clon
Finnish: klooni
French: clone
German: Klon
Greek: κλώνος
Italian: clone
Japanese: クローン
Korean: 클론
Norwegian: klon
Polish: klon organizm
European Portuguese: clone
Romanian: clonă
Russian: копия
Latin American Spanish: clon
Swedish: klon
Thai: สิ่งมีชีวิตที่เกิดมาจากเซลล์เดียวกัน
Turkish: klon
Ukrainian: клон
Vietnamese: hệ vô tính
British English: clone /kləʊn/ VERB
If you clone an animal or plant, you produce it artificially from a cell of another animal or plant, so that it is exactly the same as the original.
...the scientist who helped to clone Dolly the sheep.
American English: clone
Arabic: يَسْتَنْسِخُ
Brazilian Portuguese: clonar
Chinese: 克隆
Croatian: klonirati
Czech: klonovat
Danish: klone
Dutch: klonen
European Spanish: clonar
Finnish: kloonata
French: cloner
German: klonen
Greek: κλωνοποιώ
Italian: clonare
Japanese: クローンを作る
Korean: 무성 생식을 하다
Norwegian: klone
Polish: sklonować
European Portuguese: clonar
Romanian: a clona
Russian: клонировать
Latin American Spanish: clonar
Swedish: klona
Thai: ทำให้กำเนิดมาจากเซลล์เดียวกัน
Turkish: klonlamak
Ukrainian: клонувати
Vietnamese: nhân bản
British English: clone NOUN
identical A clone is an animal or plant that has been produced artificially.
...the world's first human clone.
American English: clone
Brazilian Portuguese: clone
Chinese: 翻版
European Spanish: clon
French: clone
German: Klon
Italian: clone
Japanese: クローン
Korean: 꼭 닮은 것
European Portuguese: clone
Latin American Spanish: clon
Chinese translation of 'clone'
clone
(kləun)
n(c)
[of animal, plant]克隆 (kèlóng)
(fig)
(= object) 复(複)制(製)品 (fùzhìpǐn)
(= person) 几(幾)乎一模一样(樣)的人 (jīhū yī mú yī yàng de rén)