cut-and-paste

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cut-and-paste

(kŭt′ənd-pāst′)

adj.

Pieced together from several sources.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

cut′-and-paste′

adj.

assembled from various existing elements.

Translations

cut-and-paste

adj (US) a cut-and-paste job → eine zusammengestückelte Arbeit (usu pej)

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The perpetrator/s used the cut-and-paste method, copying one of the 'e' letters of the headline and pasted it on the 'faces' word.

Don't be fooled by fake 'feces' headline memes attributed to Inquirer

This whole correction system is basically a "Cut-and-Paste" function, with the last part of the "Paste" phase relying on the cells' own DNA repair mechanism to properly join the OTC gene back together again.

Viral Gene Editing System Corrects Genetic Liver Disease in Newborn Mice

The cut-and-paste property of shifted DNA is now being used to develop tools for scientific research and medical applications.

Junk DNA's cut and paste mechanism could lead to gene therapies

A far cry from cut-and-paste cruelty, this issue of Oh No!

Oh No! The Robot, #7

Nowadays, NPD software does a lot more than cut-and-paste. For example, ITI's QFD/Capture has tools to build a set of cascading matrices, starting with a source matrix (customer requirements) and finishing with submatrices (manufacturing requirements by product subsystem).

QFD analysis: from customer needs to design specs; Translating customer needs and requirements into design and engineering specifications is mostly a matter of listening, seeing, quantifying the qualitative, and then figuring out the possibilities. Yes, there are tools that can help

Half a century later, Conceptual artists adapted cut-and-paste techniques to the deconstruction of authorship and authenticity.

"Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video"; Milwaukee Art Museum

This enables collaborative workgroups in departments such as finance and sales to share spreadsheet data without the typical error-prone method of email and cut-and-paste. With a KnowNow-enabled spreadsheet, cells can be defined as either publish or subscribe; as new data is entered into a cell, data is immediately available to all subscribers to that cell.

Data management

Beyonce's dad and Manager, Mathew Knowles, complained to Newsday That The Sun's story was a "cut-and-paste job" designed to paint his delighter as a homophobe.

Beyonce says tabloid is bootyvicious

Students can copy or cut-and-paste, change fonts, save notes under different file names, and transfer and convert files from the handheld to a PC.

TI Keyboard: Texas Instruments. (new products)

It includes numerous tutorials, templates, and "cut-and-paste" clip-art items.

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Designed to provide information on Java news and trends, the letters include editorial on such topics as live applets, cut-and-paste code, new products and new applications.

IDG starts "PC World Nepal"; two divisions launch E-newsletters

The task here is simply to replace each English-language paragraph with its foreign-language equivalent, using the same cut-and-paste techniques that everyone is familiar with.