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Take a page from someone’s book?
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plagiarize
Word definitions for plagiarize in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarise , lift ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1716, from plagiary "plagiarist" (see plagiarism ) + -ize . Related: Plagiarized ; plagiarizing .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (''transitive'' or ''intransitive'') To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech. vb. (''transitive'' or ''intransitive'') To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plagiarize \Pla"gia*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plagiarized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plagiarizing .] To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He got kicked out of school because he plagiarized a term paper. ▪ Kelty was expelled from the college for plagiarizing a term paper. ▪ She claimed that she didn't plagiarize - she just paraphrased. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of plagiarize.
Little wonder he describes himself as humming happily as the machine all summer, eager for the first trial print-out in the fall: I myself was as involved by this time in his quest as if it had been my own, and searched vainly, heart-in-mouth, among his technical appendices and catalogues to see whether they might include the Pattern for Heroes, which surely Polyeidus must have plagiarized from him -- unless, as seemed ever less implausible, Computer itself was some future version of my seer.
Why would anybody accuse six different writers of plagiarizing the same manuscript and then try to extort money from each one?
Little wonder he describes himself as humming happily as the machine all summer, eager for the first trial print-out in the fall: I myself was as involved by this time in his quest as if it had been my own, and searched vainly, heart-in-mouth, among his technical appendices and catalogues to see whether they might include the Pattern for Heroes, which surely Polyeidus must have plagiarized from him -- unless, as seemed ever less implausible, Computer itself was some future version of my seer.
When I read the article, I got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach, because Hersey had once plagiarized from my mother.
Among Mallon's other examples of Chinese-box plagiarism is Jacob Epstein's plagiarism of a description of a character's balding head from a passage that Martin Amis had previously plagiarized from Dickens.
He has no legal proof that Colodny stole or plagiarized his work since he obviously never copyrighted it.
Neal Bowers, a poet whose work has been repeatedly plagiarized by an out-of-work schoolteacher named David Jones, has written, "The intangible nature of language begins to haunt me, and I wonder how it's possible for anyone to own words.
If a writer, for any reason, commits plagiarism, copying some already published material, and if he gets away with it to the extent of getting the plagiarized material republished, he is bound to be caught sooner or later.
Just as honest, established writers must live, constantly, with the fear of being accused of plagiarism, or of themselves being plagiarized, so must honest, established editors live, constantly, with the fear of being victimized into publishing a doubtful story.
While some would simply have plagiarized, he created a fictional world that still endures today.
Assuming nobody would remember the story, he had plagiarized it, copied it almost word for word, except for one chapter he took whole from Fernandez y Gonzalez, in fact the best part of the story.
That was why he felt guilty even though he knew he hadn't plagiarized Farmer John Shooter's story.
This was very exciting for Senator Joe Biden, because for the first time ever he can now credibly accuse someone of plagiarizing him.
Couldn't the Democratic Party go back to plagiarizing British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock the way Senator Joe Biden did, rather than plagiarizing Lifetime: TV for Women?
The only reason Blair was exposed is that another member of the Fourth Estate, the San Antonio Express-News, caught Blair plagiarizing its stories.