Inspired vs Copied - What's the difference?
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Having excellence through inspiration.
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Filled with inspiration or motivated.
(inspire).
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The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
* Denham
An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
(journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
(journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy
(marketing) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
(uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
A school work pad.
A printed edition of a book or magazine.
Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
(obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
* Holder
(obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
(genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
(label) To produce an object identical to a given object.
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, title= To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
(label) To imitate.
* (Dugald Stewart) (1753–1828)
To receive a transmission successfully.
As verbs the difference between inspired and copied
is that inspired is (inspire) while copied is (copy).As an adjective inspired
is having excellence through inspiration.inspired
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
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- The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece .
- He was inspired to learn to fly.
Verb
(head)citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
copied
English
Verb
(head)copy
English
Noun
(copies)- Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
- That handbag is a copy . You can tell because the buckle is different.
- Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
- Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy .
- Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?
- The library has several copies of the Bible.
- His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
- Let him first learn to write, after a copy , all the letters.
- She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* carbon copy * duplicate * facsimile * image * likeness * reduplication * replica * replication * reproduction * simulacrum * fake * forgery * phony * shamAntonyms
* originalDerived terms
* advance copy * backup copy * deep copy * carbon copy * certified copy * clean copy * conformed copy * copy area * copy book * copy boy * copy cat/copycat * copy constructor * copy desk * copydom * copy editor * copy holder * copy key * copy menu * copy number * copy protection * copy room * copy ruler * copy shop * copy test * copy typist * copywriter * courtesy copy * duplicate copy * fair copy * hard copy * image copy * master copy * office copy * photocopy * presentation copy * promotional copy * reading copy * review copy * scaled copy * shallow copy * soft copy * top copy * xerox copyVerb
(en-verb)Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
- We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.