plagiar-
(Latin: a literary thief; "plunderer, oppressor, kidnapper" [one who "abducts the child or slave of another"]; then by extension, to take and use the thoughts, writings, etc. of someone else and represent or claim them as one's own)
plagiarhythm
Stealing music and/or lyrics by downloading them from the internet and incorporating them into new pieces of music.
plagiarism
1. The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
2. The process of copying another person's idea or written work and claiming it as original.
3. Something plagiarized; such as, a piece of written work or an idea that somebody has copied and claimed as his or her own.
4. The use of another person's idea or a part of his/her work and pretend that it is one's own.
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
—Wilson Mizner, American sportsman and wit.
Plagiarisms: Past and Present.
plagiarist
1. Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his/her own.
2. Someone who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another person, and passes them off as her/his own; a literary thief; a
plagiary.
A plagiarist is a musician who takes something composed by an old master and decomposes it.
—Evan Esar in Esar's Comic Dictionary
plagiaristic
Copying the writing or ideas of someone else and passing it off as one's own.
plagiarization
The act of plagiarizing; taking and using someone's words or ideas as if they were your own.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
—George Moore
plagiarize, plagiarise (British)
1. To take and to use without referencing from someone else's writing or speech.
2. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
3. To appropriate for use as one's own; such as, passages or ideas from another person or people.
4. To put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another.
5. The copying of another person's idea or written work and claim it as original for oneself.
plagiarizer
Someone who uses another person's ideas or a part of her/his work and pretends that it is the creation of the one who is doing the "borrowering"; whether intentional or not.
plagiary
1. Kidnaping.
2. Practicing plagiarism.
3. A manstealer; a kidnaper.
4. One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his/her own; a plagiarist.
5. Plagiarism; a literary thief.
6. To commit plagiarism.
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
—Mark Twain
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