Copy
Copy noun - Something that is made to look exactly like something else.
Usage example: a copy of the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
Prototype
Prototype noun - Something from which copies are made.
Usage example: the manufacturer exhaustively tested the prototype of the vehicle before approving production
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- The English NES prototype of its predecessor, dubbed EarthBound Zero by the fans and eventually released as EarthBound Beginnings, also had similar copy protection, but it's more mundane and far less cruel in its implementation.
Source: Copy Protection / Nintendo -
Cloning Blues: Yukikaze clones herself by making a copy of herself into the FRX-99 prototype and then ordering it to destroy the original.
- When Leonardo tasks Ezio with destroying the war machines the Borgia forced him to build, you not only have to destroy the prototype, you need to burn the blueprints too, and often there will be a backup copy of the war machine that also needs to be wrecked.
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