| Main Entry: | plagiarize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forge |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, copy, paraphrase, steal |
| Main Entry: | plagiarize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal words |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, copy, forge, lift, pirate, steal, thieve |
| Main Entry: | borrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adopt from another source; appropriate |
Synonyms: |
acquire, adopt, assume, copy, filch, imitate, make one's own, obtain, pilfer, pirate, plagiarize, simulate, steal, take, use, usurp |
Antonyms: |
give, return |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off, limn, manifold, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe |
| Notes: | Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process |
| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borrowed, transmitted from source |
Synonyms: |
acquired, ancestral, caused, cognate, coming from, connate, copied, evolved, hereditary, imitative, inferential, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, uninventive, unoriginal |
Antonyms: |
inventive, original, unborrowed, unique |
| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
Synonyms: |
artful, copied, copycat, copying, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, echoic, emulative, emulous, following, forged, mimetic, mimic, mimicking, mock, onomatopoeic, parrot, plagiarized, pseudo*, put-on, reflecting, reflective, secondhand, sham*, simulant |
Antonyms: |
different, genuine, original |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
Synonyms: |
abstract, appropriate, cop, copy, crib, filch, hook, nip, pilfer, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, pocket, purloin, snitch, swipe, take, thieve |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | steal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take something without permission |
Synonyms: |
abduct, appropriate, blackmail, burglarize, carry off, cheat, cozen, defraud, despoil, divert, embezzle, heist, hold for ransom, hold up, housebreak, keep, kidnap, lift*, loot, make off with, misappropriate, peculate, pilfer, pillage, pinch*, pirate, plagiarize, plunder, poach, purloin, ransack, remove, rifle, rip off, run off with, sack, shoplift, snitch, spirit away, stick up, strip, swindle, swipe, take, take possession of, thieve, walk off with, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
give, receive |
| Main Entry: | imitated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | copied |
Synonyms: |
aped, burlesqued, caricatured, counterfeited, duplicated, mimicked, mocked, parodied, parroted, plagiarized, reproduced |
| Main Entry: | quoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repeated from another |
Synonyms: |
cited, copied, echoed, excerpted, extracted, instanced, paraphrased, plagiarized, recited |