cut-and-paste
adjEtymology See cut and paste.
1
Pieced together from several sources.
- Synonyms
- scissors-and-paste
cut and paste
verbalso spelled cut-and-paste1
To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.
- Derived terms
- cut-and-paste
- Related terms
- copy and paste, clipboard, copyright, plagiarism