Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or behavior of plagiarizing.
- noun An instance of plagiarizing, especially a passage that is taken from the work of one person and reproduced in the work of another without attribution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The purloining or wrongful appropriation of another's ideas, writings, artistic designs, etc., and giving these forth as one's own; specifically, the offense of taking passages from another's compositions, and publishing them, either word for word or in substance, as one's own; literary theft.
- noun A passage or thought thus stolen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of plagiarizing.
- noun That which is plagiarized; a work which has been plagiarized.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The act of
plagiarizing : thecopying of another person'sideas ,text , or other creative work, andpresenting it as one's own, especially without permission. - noun uncountable Text or other work resulting from this act.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
- noun a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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UPDATE: Here's a longer piece by Anderson who does not use the term plagiarism, including a detailed list of passages displaying unacknowledged overlap and repetition.
Archive 2005-10-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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UPDATE: Here's a longer piece by Anderson who does not use the term plagiarism, including a detailed list of passages displaying unacknowledged overlap and repetition.
There's an odd Jenny Davidson 2005
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But the potential for accusations of plagiarism is only one of the reasons I've made a rule of not reading unpublished mss.
"The needle sticks and the penny drops." greygirlbeast 2010
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In academia and the business world, they'd call it plagiarism or intellectual property theft.
Archive 2009-10-04 Tyler 2009
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Translation of the Statement of B. Strugatsky about the fake accusation of Cameron in plagiarism, or similarities between Avatar and the Noon
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But the potential for accusations of plagiarism is only one of the reasons I've made a rule of not reading unpublished mss.
"The needle sticks and the penny drops." greygirlbeast 2010
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"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, surely you can see that the charge that my client has committed plagiarism is less parsimonious than her claim that she was divinely inspired?"
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The New York Times has been a tad lax in their strict enforcement of the rules of editorial integrity -- which probably explains why William Kristol was allowed to work the term of his contract -- but blatant word-for-word plagiarism is different than getting your facts wrong or filing under a dateline that would appear to put you in the story when you're not.
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He also says plagiarism is actually a form of identity theft, because the ideas of an author are his identity.
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Translation of the Statement of B. Strugatsky about the fake accusation of Cameron in plagiarism, or similarities between Avatar and the Noon
March 2010 2010
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More commonly, iThenticate pointed to passages, often several paragraphs long, in which some words and phrases matched existing texts whereas others were reworded—so-called “mosaic plagiarism.”
tbtabby commented on the word plagiarism
Dorothy Parker called this "the only 'ism' that Hollywood believes in."
October 7, 2008