copybook

noun

Etymology

From copy + book.

  1. inherited from *bōks
  2. inherited from *bōk
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as copybook — “copy + book

Definitions

  1. A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.

    • She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.
  2. A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.

  3. A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared…

    A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copybook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA