CARBONS Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

carbons

noun

plural of carbon

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another this new digital camera is a carbon of a well-known model costing almost twice as much

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something that is made to look exactly like something else the bell tower is a carbon of an earlier one that toppled in an earthquake

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Recent Examples of carbons The company will produce conductive carbons and carbon nanostructures designed to improve the performance of next-generation batteries at facilities in Louisiana and Texas. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026 While the backbone is always the same, the number of carbons in the fatty acids can vary. — Rosemary Trout, The Conversation, 10 June 2026 The lipids used to make fats and the cell membrane are built up two carbons at a time. — ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Kneeland said the photographs have become popular backdrops for customers taking pictures.

— J.M. Banks November 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026
Rising stars from The Body stuck together, even snapping pictures in front of their nearby billboard.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

The book—a juicy look at the inner workings of foreign-policymaking—was a hit, selling more than sixty thousand copies of its first edition.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2026
Following your surgery, keep copies of your treatment plan, consent forms, prescriptions, payment records and aftercare instructions.

— Ascend Agency, Sun Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of copies

Noun

At the center of the system is Mundo, which converts photographs of hotel rooms, corridors, and laundry facilities into interactive digital twins.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
Four years after Rolnick was illegally taken from his mother’s arms, his brothers, twins Travis and Chris, suffered the same fate and were also adopted by an American couple.

— Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of twins

Noun

Black-and-white reproductions of historic expedition photos accent hallways and suites.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of reproductions

Noun

Mobile service vehicles for the Miami-Dade Tax Collector’s Office feature jumbo images of Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, a Republican who was also elected in 2024.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
But as far as photographing on the street, [those images] are marked by a certain distance from people or solitary figures in a vast landscape, that sort of thing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

If the original creators get paid, there's much less reason to take issue with clones.

— Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026
Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of clones

Noun

The new volume includes valuable findings alongside duplicates, unverifiable submissions and reports lacking enough depth to act on.

— Ido Geffen, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Out of the 20,000 names on the list, only 7,035 had addresses in Los Angeles County and some were duplicates, according to a separate Tuesday court filing by Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan.

— Miles Parks, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026

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