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”
Spare
Spare noun - An interchangeable part or piece of equipment that is kept on hand for replacement of an original.
Usage example: we promptly replaced the burnt-out lightbulb with a spare
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Have a spare rotator cuff to rebuild it if you made a blueprint copy?
Source: Video Game / Dead Space 3 -
Granted, it's obvious that David isn't coming back and probably wasn't even imprinted (he behaves as David did before his own imprinting), but you'd think Hobby would at least care that David just beat another copy of himself into spare parts in a jealous rage.
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Maybe resurrection is commonplace or some sort of magical alternate universe has a spare copy to borrow.
Source: Killed Off for Real
Cite this Source
Spare and Copy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/copy/spare
Copy & Spare. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/copy/spare>.
Spare or Copy. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/copy/spare.
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