clone
verb/kləʊn/
/kləʊn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they clone | /kləʊn/ /kləʊn/ |
| he / she / it clones | /kləʊnz/ /kləʊnz/ |
| past simple cloned | /kləʊnd/ /kləʊnd/ |
| past participle cloned | /kləʊnd/ /kləʊnd/ |
| -ing form cloning | /ˈkləʊnɪŋ/ /ˈkləʊnɪŋ/ |
- clone something to produce an exact copy of an animal or a plant from its cells
- A team from the UK were the first to successfully clone an animal.
- Dolly, the cloned sheep
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- clone something to illegally make an electronic copy of stored information from a person’s credit card or mobile phone so that you can make payments or phone calls but the owner of the card or phone receives the bill
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Greek klōn ‘twig’.
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