Copy
Copy verb - To make an exact likeness of.
Usage example: for the movie, set designers copied the Oval Office in the White House down to the smallest detail
Render
Render verb - To make an exact likeness of.
Usage example: rendered Thomas Jefferson's signature for use on an array of gift items
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- In one 1970s comic story, he lost his cowl and had to resort to stealing a copy from a costume shop, one that did not render his eyes blank white shapes but acted like a "real" mask would.
Source: Impossibly Cool Clothes - However this doesn't grant him Required Secondary Powers, which can potentially render a copied skill useless; he once copied someone's diving abilities only to nearly drown when it turned out he hadn't bothered to copy the ability to swim.
Source: Logical Weakness -
A RAID can be configured to sacrifice disk space and performance to increase availability (by effectively storing a second copy of everything), or could be configured to improve performance, though in its highest-performance configuration, a failure on any drive could render the system unusable.
Source: Explosive Overclocking
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