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Original vs Derivation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between original and derivation

is that original is an object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived while derivation is a leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

As an adjective original

is relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

original

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.
  • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * derivative * reproduction * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally * original sin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
  • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
  • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric
  • Synonyms

    * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * remake * reproduction

    Statistics

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    derivation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
  • The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
  • The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Indo-European root.
  • The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
  • That from which a thing is derived.
  • That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
  • (mathematics) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
  • (medicine) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
  • Derived terms

    * derivation tree