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Original vs Existing - What's the difference?

original | existing |

As a noun original

is original.

As a verb existing is

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As an adjective existing is

that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.

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

    Related terms

    * origin * originality * originate * originative * aboriginal

    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

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    existing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * existent

    Anagrams

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