Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To reproduce or otherwise use (the words, ideas, or other work of another) as one's own or without attribution.
- intransitive verb To plagiarize the words, ideas, or work of (another person).
- intransitive verb To present another's words or ideas as one's own or without attribution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To steal or purloin from the writings or ideas of another: as, to
plagiarize a passage. - To commit plagiarism. Also spelled
plagiarise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive or intransitive To
use , andpass off as one's own, someone else'swriting /speech .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
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Examples
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As such, it Must make reference to the culture as a whole, or to put it in another fashion, plagiarize from the culture as a whole.
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To plagiarize aka paraphrase the honest opinion of "fundamentalist atheist" aka Atheist Supremacist Richard Dawkins
Supporting Atheists As Anti-Oppression Work Steve Caldwell 2008
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Obama didn\'t "plagiarize" Deval Patrick as the Clinton campaign claimed.
Two Pieces of Nonsense Yesterday about Bill Clinton and Barack Obama 2008
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Again, thinking of the current MP3 debates, those who "plagiarize" in this manner have no conception, or have a merely legal conception, of what plagiarism might possibly be, just as they start out with no concrete idea of the person who has created the song or even posted it.
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I regret that I was not able to 'plagiarize' this effect, but I felt that, although crabs may, and doubtless do, behave thus in real life, in romance they 'will not do so.'
Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The original post about this new service generated a lively debate about whether it's ethical to "plagiarize" your own essays, or recycle them for multiple applications.
IPBiz 2010
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I believe that those who do "plagiarize" without adding any value put their own reputations at great risk -- but it's hardly "stealing" or damaging in most cases.
Techdirt 2009
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But if he were asked to define the term "plagiarize", as in a trivia game .... naaa!
unknown title 2009
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"plagiarize" might be a word that is overly loaded in your mind, but if you check the dictionary, you'll see that it fits rather well here …
Booksquare 2009
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Is it just me, or did Matt just plagiarize wholesale from Delong?
Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Establishment Embraces Discredited 1930s-Vintage Economic Doctrines 2009
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