■ noun a duplicating machine which produces copies from a stencil, now superseded by the photocopier.
■ verb make a copy of (a document) with a ~.
Origin
C19: formed irregularly from Gk mimeomai 'I imitate' + -graph .
■ noun a duplicating machine which produces copies from a stencil, now superseded by the photocopier.
■ verb make a copy of (a document) with a ~.
Origin
C19: formed irregularly from Gk mimeomai 'I imitate' + -graph .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004