Exact Match:
- deriving
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- mocking
collapse - playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell related words >
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- assumption,
- bantering,
- booing,
- borrowed plumes,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- copying,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- imitation,
- infringement,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- panning,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- simulation,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taking,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- plagiarism
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- the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
- a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work related words >
- 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
- adoption
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- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
- a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) related words >
- Americanization,
- acceptance,
- acculturation,
- admission,
- affiliation,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- borrowed plumes,
- circumcision,
- citizenship by naturalization,
- citizenship papers,
- colonization,
- conquest,
- conversion,
- copying,
- culture shock,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- embracement,
- embracing,
- encroachment,
- enslavement,
- espousal,
- imitation,
- indent,
- infringement,
- invasion,
- mocking,
- nationalization,
- naturalization,
- naturalized citizenship,
- new birth,
- new life,
- occupation,
- papers,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- preemption,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- rebirth,
- redeemedness,
- redemption,
- reformation,
- regeneration,
- requisition,
- salvation,
- second birth,
- seizure,
- simulation,
- spiritual purification,
- subjugation,
- takeover,
- taking,
- taking over,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- usurpation
- appropriation
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- a deliberate act of acquisition
- money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose related words >
- abstraction,
- adoption,
- allocation,
- allotment,
- annexation,
- appointment,
- arrogation,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- autoplagiarism,
- boosting,
- borrowed plumes,
- borrowing,
- colonization,
- conquest,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- copying,
- cribbing,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- earmarking,
- embezzlement,
- encroachment,
- enslavement,
- filching,
- fraud,
- graft,
- imitation,
- indent,
- infringement,
- infringement of copyright,
- invasion,
- liberation,
- lifting,
- literary piracy,
- mocking,
- occupation,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinching,
- piracy,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiarizing,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- poaching,
- preemption,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- requisition,
- scrounging,
- seizure,
- setting aside,
- shoplifting,
- simulation,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- subjugation,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- tagging,
- takeover,
- taking,
- taking over,
- theft,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- usurpation
- simulation
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- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" related words >
- accordance,
- acting,
- adoption,
- affectation,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- appearance,
- approach,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cheating,
- closeness,
- color,
- coloring,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- identity,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- infringement,
- likeness,
- likening,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- metaphor,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mirroring,
- mocking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assumption,
- bad faith,
- bankruptcy,
- borrowed plumes,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of law,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- breaking,
- civil disobedience,
- collapse,
- contravention,
- copying,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- damage,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- dilapidation,
- disablement,
- disobedience,
- disrepair,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entrenchment,
- frowardness,
- harm,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- imitation,
- impairment,
- impingement,
- imposition,
- incapacitation,
- incursion,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- infiltration,
- influx,
- infraction,
- injection,
- injury,
- inroad,
- insinuation,
- insubordination,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interloping,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- intractability,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- loss,
- maiming,
- mayhem,
- mischief,
- mocking,
- mutilation,
- naughtiness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obtrusion,
- offense,
- overstepping,
- passive resistance,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- recusancy,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- scathe,
- seizure,
- sickening,
- simulation,
- spoiling,
- taking,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unlawful entry,
- unsubmissiveness,
- usurpation,
- violation,
- violation of law,
- waywardness,
- weakening,
- willful disobedience
- pastiche
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- a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work related words >
- adoption,
- all sorts,
- appropriation,
- art object,
- assemblage,
- assortment,
- assumption,
- blend,
- borrowed plumes,
- brainchild,
- bric-a-brac,
- broad spectrum,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- certified copy,
- classic,
- composite,
- composition,
- compound,
- conglomeration,
- copy,
- copying,
- counterfeit,
- creation,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- design,
- ectype,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- farce,
- farrago,
- forgery,
- gallimaufry,
- grotesque,
- hash,
- hodgepodge,
- hotchpot,
- hotchpotch,
- icon,
- image,
- imitation,
- infringement,
- jumble,
- kitsch,
- lampoon,
- likeness,
- magpie,
- mash,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- medley,
- melange,
- mess,
- mingle-mangle,
- miscellany,
- mishmash,
- mix,
- mixed bag,
- mixture,
- mobile,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- motley,
- museum piece,
- nude,
- odds and ends,
- old master,
- olio,
- olla podrida,
- omnium gatherum,
- omnium-gatherum,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- patchwork,
- phony,
- picture,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- portrait,
- potpourri,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- salad,
- salmagundi,
- satire,
- sauce,
- scramble,
- semblance,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- squib,
- stabile,
- statue,
- stew,
- still life,
- study,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- tangle,
- travesty,
- virtu,
- what you will,
- wicked imitation,
- work,
- work of art
- acceptable,
- acceptance,
- acquisition,
- admission,
- admittance,
- adoption,
- adorable,
- agreeable,
- alluring,
- annexational,
- appealing,
- appetizing,
- appropriation,
- assumption,
- attractive,
- beguiling,
- bewitching,
- blandishing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cajoling,
- captivating,
- catching,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- communicable,
- compelling,
- confiscatory,
- contagious,
- copying,
- coquettish,
- defloration,
- deflowerment,
- delightful,
- deprivative,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- desirable,
- devirgination,
- enchanting,
- endemic,
- engaging,
- enravishing,
- enthralling,
- enticing,
- entrancing,
- enviable,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- exciting,
- exotic,
- expropriatory,
- exquisite,
- fascinating,
- fetching,
- flirtatious,
- getting,
- glamorous,
- heart-robbing,
- hypnotic,
- imitation,
- infectious,
- infective,
- infringement,
- inoculable,
- interesting,
- intriguing,
- inviting,
- irresistible,
- likable,
- lovable,
- lovely,
- luxurious,
- mesmeric,
- mocking,
- mouth-watering,
- pandemic,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pestiferous,
- pestilential,
- piquant,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- pleasing,
- prepossessing,
- privative,
- provocative,
- provoquant,
- rape,
- ravishing,
- ravishment,
- receipt,
- receival,
- receiving,
- reception,
- seducing,
- seductive,
- sensuous,
- sexual assault,
- sexual possession,
- simulation,
- siren,
- sirenic,
- spellbinding,
- spellful,
- sporadic,
- spreading,
- tantalizing,
- teasing,
- tempting,
- thievish,
- thrilling,
- tickling,
- titillating,
- titillative,
- to be desired,
- toothsome,
- unobjectionable,
- violation,
- voluptuous,
- winning,
- winsome,
- witching,
- worth having,
- zymotic
- derivation
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- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do' related words >
- IC analysis,
- acceptance,
- accidence,
- acquisition,
- admission,
- admittance,
- adoption,
- affiliation,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- ancestry,
- apparentation,
- appropriation,
- assumption,
- beginning,
- birth,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- borrowed plumes,
- bound morpheme,
- bowwow theory,
- branch,
- breed,
- by-product,
- cognate,
- commencement,
- common ancestry,
- comparative linguistics,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- conjugation,
- consanguinity,
- consequence,
- consequent,
- copying,
- corollary,
- cutting,
- declension,
- deduction,
- derivative,
- deriving,
- descent,
- descriptive linguistics,
- development,
- dialectology,
- difference of form,
- dingdong theory,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- distillate,
- doublet,
- effect,
- enclitic,
- eponym,
- eponymy,
- etymology,
- etymon,
- event,
- eventuality,
- eventuation,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- filiation,
- folk etymology,
- formative,
- foundation,
- fountain,
- free form,
- fruit,
- genealogy,
- genesis,
- getting,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- grass roots,
- harvest,
- head,
- historical linguistics,
- house,
- illation,
- imitation,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- inception,
- induction,
- inference,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- infringement,
- issue,
- language study,
- legacy,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- logical outcome,
- male line,
- mathematical linguistics,
- mocking,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- offshoot,
- offspring,
- origin,
- original,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- paleography,
- paradigm,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phylum,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- precipitate,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- primitive,
- proclitic,
- product,
- provenance,
- provenience,
- psycholinguistics,
- race,
- radical,
- radix,
- receipt,
- receival,
- receiving,
- reception,
- result,
- resultant,
- rise,
- root,
- seed,
- semantic history,
- semantics,
- sept,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequence,
- sequent,
- side,
- simulation,
- sociolinguistics,
- source,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- structuralism,
- succession,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- sword side,
- syntactics,
- taking,
- taproot,
- theme,
- transformational linguistics,
- upshot,
- well,
- wellspring,
- whence,
- word history,
- word-formation
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