plagiarism

plagiarism
    n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else
         and is presented as being your own work
    2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as
       if they were your own [syn: {plagiarism}, {plagiarization},
       {plagiarisation}, {piracy}]
    

Plagiarism \Pla"gia*rism\ (pl[=a]"j[.a]*r[i^]z'm or
   pl[=a]"j[i^]*[.a]*r[i^]z'm; 277), n. [Cf. F. plagiarisme.]
   1. The act or practice of plagiarizing.
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   2. That which is plagiarized; a work which has been
      plagiarized.
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PLAGIARISM, n.  A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable
priority and an honorable subsequence.
    

PLAGIARISM. The act of appropriating the ideas and language of another, and 
passing them for one's own. 
     2. When this amounts to piracy the party who has been guilty of it will 
be enjoined, when the original author has a copyright. Vide Copyright; 
Piracy; Quotation; Pard. Dr. Com. n. 169. 
    

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "plagiarism":
      adoption, appropriation, assumption, autoplagiarism,
      borrowed plumes, borrowing, copying, counterfeiting, cribbing,
      derivation, deriving, doubling, duplication, echo, emulation,
      fakery, following, forgery, hit-off, imitation, impersonation,
      imposture, impression, infringement, infringement of copyright,
      infringing, lifting, literary piracy, mimesis, mirroring, mocking,
      onomatopoeia, parody, pasticcio, pastiche, piracy, pirating,
      plagiarizing, plagiary, purloining, quotation, reappearance,
      rebirth, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho,
      regurgitation, reincarnation, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition,
      reproduction, resumption, return, simulation, stealing, takeoff,
      taking, theft, thievery, usurpation