Plagiarism vs Forgery - What's the difference?
plagiarism | forgery |
(uncountable) The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission.
(uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.
The act of forging metal into shape.
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The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
(lb) An invention, creation.
As nouns the difference between plagiarism and forgery
is that plagiarism is (uncountable) the act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission while forgery is the act of forging metal into shape.plagiarism
English
(wikipedia plagiarism)Noun
- Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon.
- Copy from one, it's plagiarism . Copy from two, it's research.
- The novel was awash in plagiarism , with entire passages lifted verbatim.
