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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
original
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
original manuscript
▪ Unfortunately, parts of the original manuscript have been lost.
original sin
original/innovative (=no one has thought of it before)
▪ The company is looking for people who can come up with original ideas.
original/previous/new owner
▪ the club’s new owners
sth’s original purpose
▪ The building is no longer needed for its original purpose.
sth’s original size
▪ The lake has already shrunk to half its original size.
the original draft (=the first one)
▪ The hero had a different name in the original draft of the story.
the original estimate (=the one given at the beginning of a process)
▪ The final cost was nearly three times the original estimate.
the original/first version
▪ The original version was in Latin but later editions were in English.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ He learnt the lesson well, and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work.
▪ In a highly original twist, the game allows you to determine the moral caliber of the hero.
▪ A fine revival of a highly original piece of music theatre.
▪ Blackwell glossed reproduction in a highly original way, fusing it with claims for an active female sexuality.
▪ For instance, they created highly original relief panels to decorate the Sebasteion as well as other sculpture that adapted earlier models for different purposes.
▪ Wallis made a small but highly original contribution to the art and connoisseurship of his time.
▪ An older repaint over a highly original car, this interesting specification Rover 2000 would respond well to careful detailing.
most
▪ The most original observations in the book result from this detailed scrutiny.
▪ That, sir, is the most original approach I have ever heard.
▪ Some of the most original and beautiful designs he had seen in thirty years.
▪ Writing is the most original kind of intellectual labor.
▪ He finished up as one of Britain's greatest and most original architects.
▪ Mr Killow was one of the most original personalities about the church in those days.
▪ One class was for the most original entry; another was limited to the tots; a third to the over-8s.
▪ The most original part of Anderson's thesis relates to the geographical origins of nationalism.
■ NOUN
design
▪ But in a few places conditions remain unaltered and they suit the original design to perfection.
▪ The original design of the work-shops dated back to the mid-1980s.
▪ The original design of six arches was rejected because of spate flow volumes in the river.
▪ Rarely is such good humor combined with such original design in audio.
▪ Roy modified the original design and made every single part of the clock in his own workshop.
▪ It was not a retrofit, though it was more of an adaptation of a copying lathe than an original design.
▪ The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design.
▪ For that would show some imperfection in the original design.
form
▪ In order to accommodate its growing occupant, the shell must enlarge in such a way as to preserve its original form.
▪ Needless to say, the dish is rarely presented in its original form.
▪ Even after 5 days, students could still discriminate original forms of jokes and asides.
▪ However, they had to return her to her original form so she could marry a mouse.
▪ Now subtracting the original form from the last equation, we obtain.
▪ What followed were long brainstorming sessions that finally yielded the Foxfire magazine in its original form as a school literary magazine.
▪ E places it after these events, and so is here more likely to preserve the original form of the annal.
idea
▪ The balance of evidence seems to be swinging away from the original idea of swamp-dwelling giant dinosaurs to fully terrestrial habits.
▪ And it all started with a successful test-market of his original idea while he was still employed.
▪ Mrs Van Brandenburg also has wonderful and original ideas for redesigning customers' own jewellery.
▪ Presenting original ideas in notes is like planting seeds in a garden, Cooley says.
▪ On the other hand, the probability that we would go for a genuinely original idea may be very high indeed.
▪ Haven't got two original ideas to rub together between the whole lot of them.
▪ The original idea was that the library would be symmetrical with the entrance and stairs in the centre.
▪ The original idea was that the gliders should be built to make one flight only.
intention
▪ The original intention was that the client teams would be leaderless, but in some cases this has proved to be impractical.
▪ My original intention was merely to sell the cards quietly for the best possible price.
▪ The original intention was that they should replace the Milnes cars which were worn out.
▪ Whatever the original intentions, aid programs had become an end in themselves.
▪ The original intention was to hive off assembly operations to sub-contractors.
▪ The original intention behind the research was to measure the effect on the individual worker of variations in the work conditions.
▪ I am looking for some one - at least, that was the original intention.
▪ The original intention was that Cramlington would be a free-standing newtown with a full range of shopping services.
owner
▪ The original owners could not sustain the necessary level of investment so the company has now been sold.
▪ The original owner keeps the land but gives up the right to develop it.
▪ The original owner of the house was a professor at the University.
▪ Broadcast station licenses and monopoly cable franchises cost their original owners nothing except legal fees.
▪ The Red Cross isn't too disheartened by the lack of interest, but no doubt the original owner would not be amused.
▪ You are buying a proven and successful business-its original owners demonstrated that it works.
▪ The claim was lodged last year by the three children of the original owner.
▪ However, an original owner can reclaim within three years from the date of the loss or robbery.
plan
▪ Its original plan was to unload the problem on to the electricity generators.
▪ Burke urged Clinton to stay with the original plan.
▪ He has ruthlessly pruned his original plans for a quick dash to the top.
▪ Holy Trinity abided by the terms of the compromise, but the Renovation Committee ultimately decided to continue with its original plans.
▪ Better to abide by the original plan.
▪ This would be expensive and had not been allowed for in the original plans and bids.
▪ If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans.
▪ After two years, the Gypsy Moth Commission decided to go back to a version of their original plan.
position
▪ The principles of justice adopted in the original position are neutral between different conceptions of the good.
▪ The tape should be returned to its original position in the rack.
▪ Soon the Federals began to fall back toward their original position on Cemetery Ridge.
▪ A Theory of Justice contains hardly any explicit argument for the exclusion of moral and religious beliefs from the original position.
▪ Others, such as the Hoar Stone at Enstone, Oxfordshire, will go back to their original position if moved.
▪ Even a slight push means that it falls and can not recover its original position of equilibrium.
▪ Eventually the scarp will retreat from the original position of faulting and it may be buried by sediment.
proposal
▪ For example, our original proposal was that Family Credit should be paid through the pay-packet.
▪ The City is concerned that the original proposals would have hindered the dissemination of information from companies to investors.
▪ Under his original proposal, much of the savings would have gone to the wealthy.
▪ The original proposal was for no guaranteed funding and payment to be in arrears.
▪ The original proposal featured centre loading islands, but this idea was abandoned.
▪ Clearly, the difference between the original proposals put forward in the White Paper and the final solution in 1977 is enormous.
▪ What occurred none the less fell well short of the Community's original proposals.
purpose
▪ They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.
▪ Celebration is a lost art, a spiritual practice whose original purpose is sacramental in quality.
▪ If the building is no longer needed for its original purpose, could it be put to a new use?
▪ The original purpose of the law was to help disabled people enter the workforce.
▪ There were no clues to its original purpose.
▪ Long neglected, it has now been restored by the University of Edinburgh and is once again used for its original purpose.
▪ What was the original purpose of the site?
▪ This is true; but such poems have outlived their original purposes and now survive as aesthetic entities.
sin
▪ Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin.
▪ This comes too close to something like a pedagogic version of original sin.
▪ Another incident followed Richard Baxter's preaching of a sermon on original sin.
▪ According to Elvis Costello, there are no original sins.
▪ Howard by his belief in original sin, guilt and the possibility of awakening man's consciousness of sin.
▪ I was told in the third grade that I had an overabundance of original sin.
▪ The original sin of mankind was the murder of the father.
▪ Like a piece of apple, some kid said; the chunk of apple that Adam ate and got original sin.
version
▪ The original version of the model is depicted in Figure 8.
▪ The original versions were reduced to ashes when an earlier Capitol burned in 1881.
▪ Even its original version he had regarded as no more that a bargaining chip.
▪ This program has made dramatic leaps in ease-of-use and reliability from its original version.
▪ The original version, also included, still sounded fresh ten years on.
▪ Pacino cuts them together for a truly original version of Shakespeare that could only be realized on film.
▪ One alternative is to order decaffeinated coffee, which certainly is an improvement on the original version.
▪ The arrangement to the original version is like, when the song starts, you get this protection.
work
▪ Letters submitted must be your own original work and must not be offered for publication elsewhere at the same time.
▪ Teachers and many other employees produce original works while they are employed.
▪ The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible.
▪ Reference to the original work with its full specification of assumptions is essential.
▪ In such an example, the photographer will own the copyright of the photograph and the artist copyright in the original work.
▪ That the health-care taskforce is engaged in thorough and original work on reform is not in doubt.
▪ As well as writing numerous original works, he has edited several anthologies of poetry and short stories.
▪ As soon as you start writing original work, register the copyrights in one of the ways already outlined.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a jazz musician with a completely original style
▪ an original screenplay
▪ Barnes was one of the three original board members.
▪ I was impressed by the highly original design of the house.
▪ It's not a bad movie, but there's nothing very original about it.
▪ My job is to think up creative and original advertising ideas
▪ Our original plan was to go camping, but it was pouring with rain.
▪ Steve comes up with a lot of original ideas.
▪ The house still has its original stone floors.
▪ The orphanage's original budget was just $60,000.
▪ Woolf's writing was completely original - nothing like it had ever been done before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For that would show some imperfection in the original design.
▪ If intervention remains, it should be reduced to the original concept of a safety net for use in extreme emergencies.
▪ Many authors have used estimates generated by others in their own league table; did they check the original analyses?
▪ Most often, he found their original trials were fair, their complaints without merit.
▪ The case was listed for rehearing before a committee of seven members not all of whom sat on the original committee.
▪ The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I wasn't sure whether the portrait was an excellent copy or the original.
▪ Jack is a true original.
▪ This is a photograph of the manuscript. The original is in the city museum.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Click the extract button, and the originals will be extracted from the compressed file and placed in the new directory.
▪ Stained-glass windows have been fitted in place of the grime-encrusted originals.
▪ That he was an individualist and an original meant little to a lad with stirrings in the groin department.
▪ The originals were never formally withdrawn, but have been out of stock for some time.
▪ Tomasson hedged a bit on the 48 bodies of the original.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Original

Original \O*rig"i*nal\, n. [Cf. F. original.]

  1. Origin; commencement; source.

    It hath it original from much grief.
    --Shak.

    And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
    --Addison.

  2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

    The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.
    --Milton.

  3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]

    Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals.
    --C. G. Leland.

  4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]

  5. (Zo["o]l. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

Original

Original \O*rig"i*nal\, a. [F. original, L. originalis.]

  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

    His form had yet not lost All her original brightness.
    --Milton.

  2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

  3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

  4. Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

    Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
original

early 14c., "first in time, earliest," from Old French original "first" (13c.) and directly from Latin originalis, from originem (nominative origo) "beginning, source, birth," from oriri "to rise" (see orchestra). The first reference is in original sin "innate depravity of man's nature," supposed to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall. Related: Originally.

original

"original text," late 14c., from Medieval Latin originale (see original (adj.)). Of photographs, films, sound recordings, etc., from 1918.

Wiktionary
original

a. (label en not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others. n. 1 An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived 2 A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent 3 (context archaic English) An eccentric

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WordNet
original

  1. n. an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy]

  2. an original model on which something is patterned [syn: archetype, pilot]

original

  1. adj. preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement"

  2. (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources"

  3. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal]

  4. not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"

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Wikipedia
Original (Leftfield song)

"Original" is a song by Leftfield, released as the sixth single under that name. The song was released on 12" and CD on 13 March 1995. It featured Toni Halliday on vocals. The song gave the group their first appearance on Top of the Pops and reached #18 in the UK charts. The beginning of the song is used often on the UK version of Big Brother.

Original (film)

Original is a film directed by Antonio Tublén and Alexander Brøndsted. It won the Golden Goblet for best film at Shanghai International Film Festival. The jury was led by Danny Boyle and included Andie MacDowell, Michelle Yeoh, Huang Jianxin, Xavier Koller, Komaki Kurihara, Andrew Lau and OH Jungwan.

Original (disambiguation)

Originality is the quality of novelty or newness in created works.

Original or The Originals may also refer to:

Original (Cir.Cuz song)

"Original" is a song performed by Norwegian pop duo Cir.Cuz featuring vocals from Emila. It was released on 8 December 2014 as a digital download in Norway. The song peaked at number 28 on the Norwegian Singles Chart.

Original (catamaran)

Original was a catamaran built by Englishman Mayflower Crisp in Rangoon, Burma in the early 19th century.

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Usage examples of "original".

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

These original and authentic acts I have translated and abridged with freedom, yet with fidelity.

Lenfant has abridged and compared the original narratives of the adherents of Urban and Clement, of the Italians and Germans, the French and Spaniards.

Cantemir partly draws his materials from the Synopsis of Saadi Effendi of Larissa, dedicated in the year 1696 to Sultan Mustapha, and a valuable abridgment of the original historians.

But the most important step which his Prussian majesty took in his own justification, was that of publishing another memorial, specifying the conduct of the courts of Vienna and Saxony, and their dangerous designs against his person and interest, together with the original documents adduced as proofs of these sinister intentions.

State of Texas filed an original petition in the Supreme Court, in which it asserted that its claim, together with those of three other States, exceeded the value of the estate, that the portion of the estate within Texas alone would not suffice to discharge its own tax, and that its efforts to collect its tax might be defeated by adjudications of domicile by the other States.

The same uniform original spirit of superstition might suggest, in the most distant ages and countries, the same methods of deceiving the credulity, and of affecting the senses of mankind: but it must ingenuously be confessed, that the ministers of the Catholic church imitated the profane model, which they were impatient to destroy.

Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.

James Warburg affidavit is not aimed at the original boo but rather at an anti-Semitic book circulated over a decade later.

The piece was original Garriston, composed in the afterglow of their recent lovemaking.

Written by Roy Thomas with digitally recoloured art by Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane and others, each book contained a fascinating Afterword by Thomas talking about the history of the original series.

Roy Thomas with digitally recoloured art by Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane and others, each book contained a fascinating Afterword by Thomas talking about the history of the original series.

Professor Agrest, a Russian physicist, also maintains that a strange rock platform in Lebanon, whose origin and original purpose have baffled archeologists and geologists for several years, was constructed by aliens as a launching pad.

What is particularly original in Rozanov, and what makes him so much akin to Dos-toyevsky, is his peculiar attitude to morality.

Pacino pulled himself to his feet and followed Alameda through the tight passageway aft to the hatch they had come in from, then back to the original airlock and into the next compartment aft.