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Adjoin vs Copycat - What's the difference?

adjoin | copycat |

As verbs the difference between adjoin and copycat

is that adjoin is to be in contact or connection with while copycat is to act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.

As a noun copycat is

one who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.

As an adjective copycat is

imitative; unoriginal.

adjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be in contact or connection with.
    • The living room and dining room adjoin each other.
  • (transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra, and, number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).
    • \textbf{Q}\left(\sqrt{2}\right) can be obtained from \textbf{Q} by adjoining \sqrt{2} to \textbf{Q} .

    Derived terms

    * adjoining

    Related terms

    * adjunction

    copycat

    English

    Alternative forms

    * copy cat * copy-cat

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.
  • A criminal who imitates the crimes of another.
    • a copycat strangler

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • ; unoriginal.
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    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To act as a ; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 3, author=Janet Maslin, title=His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In a genre that is rife with copycatting , Ms. Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground. }}