← Word library
WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
clone
/kləʊn/
verb1 of 2
to make an exact copy of a living thing
- “I wonder if a human will ever be cloned.”Tatoeba
- “Creating a digital clone of someone's voice is now easier than ever.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
noun2 of 2
A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)