to lift
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7.5
- verb
- /lɪft/
:
plagiar
- That's actually lifted directly from the online link.
- lifted directly from
And the solution that he articulates is really lifted right out of Drawdown, Paul Hawken's book.
- And the solution that he articulates is really lifted right out of Drawdown, Paul Hawken's book.
- He was accused of lifting phrases from a British lawmaker and also from Robert F Kennedy senior.
- The Boston lawyer with terminal cancer who was ripped off was being sent photos lifted from a Korean model's Instagram account and had multiple phone calls with the scammer.
- And you know, he does lift stuff basically out of the philosophy of our world and put it into the mouths of his characters and the minds of the characters.
Examples
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The class notes were shown to be lifted from articles in CNN and The New York Times.
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And the solution that he articulates is really lifted right out of Drawdown, Paul Hawken's book.
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Or they can lift good ideas from other teachers' plans.
Academic text (2007) -
"Where's the beef?" was lifted from a television commercial.
Fiction book (1995) -
One element that White and his team lifted directly from history is the legend of the Apkallu, or Seven Sages.
Academic text (2009) -
In fact, the fledgling democracy he endorsed was itself lifted in part from the ancient Greeks.
Academic text (2004) -
The Atlantic remembers that Jeffrey Goldberg accused him of lifting quotes from Goldberg's own interviews with Israeli officials.
Blog text (14) -
The researcher was caught trying to lift quotes from an online source without giving credit.
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Many students have been accused of lifting passages from Wikipedia in their essays.
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It is unethical to lift text from another author without proper citation in your work.
Synonyms
107
2.6
To take an idea or method from someone else and use it as your own
23
6.8
To copy someone else's words or ideas and claim them as your own without saying where they came from
To use someone else's ideas without giving them credit
Use someone else's idea as your own without permission
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
7
4.4
Surgery that tightens the skin on the face and removes extra tissue to make someone look younger
A moving bar on a slope that pulls people up while they keep their skis or snowboard on
A ski lift with a T-shaped bar that pulls skiers or snowboarders uphill as they hold it
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lift used for copying words follows the 'take up' idea — you 'lift' text from another source. That's why saying someone 'lifted' a paragraph means they took it from elsewhere without credit.