cut and paste
Scrapbook crafting technique
Cut and paste describes the process of removing something from one location and placing it in another.
The term originated with physical editing—literally cutting paper with scissors and pasting clippings elsewhere—but now primarily refers to digital text or file manipulation.
As a verb phrase, you cut and paste content between documents or applications.
The adjective cut-and-paste often implies something assembled hastily or uncreatively from existing materials: The proposal looked like a cut-and-paste job from previous submissions.
copy
Identical reproduction made
redo · drag · drop · right-click · highlight · cursor · insert · duplicate · spreadsheet · buffer
scissors
Pivoted twin-blade cutter
scrapbook · clipping · newspaper · magazine · craft · montage · layout · zine · ephemera · cutout
- typingkeyboard, typing accuracy, words per minute, WPM, home row
- activity bookscoloring books, word searches, crosswords, mazes, connect the dots
- word processingword processor, WordPerfect, text editor, Microsoft Word, copy
- text editingcopy, editing, undo, delete, cut
- collagecollage, paper collage, photo collage, digital collage, cutout
- antipatternsspaghetti code, dead code, code smell, technical debt, cargo cult