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[ adjective ] preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed
Examples "the original inhabitants of the Americas" "the book has its original binding" "restored the house to its original condition" "the original cast" "retracted his original statement" Used in print (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)Out of long experience I have found that incidental figures and other objects like trees , logs , and bushes can be traced from the original sketch and moved about in the major areas on the final sheet until they occupy the right position , which I call ' clicking ' . (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)The original electrocardiograph primarily indicates irregularities in the heartbeat , but today 's techniques allow exact measurements of the flow of blood through the aorta , dimensioning of the heart and its chambers , and a much more detailed study of each heartbeat . This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter . (John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)Providing good customer service requires as thorough a marketing and general management planning job as the original selling of the product . (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)Whatever his original assignment , the fictional private_eye ends_up by investigating and solving a crime , usually a murder . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
Examples "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)I saw `` Fiorello ! '' performed in New_York by the original cast and I think this company is every_bit as good , and perhaps better . (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)The historical sign tells its story , but nothing gets interest across as well as some of the original historical items or places themselves which still have the character of the period covered . (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of **f which had been diluted to three_times its original volume with powdered , anhydrous alundum ( **f ) . (M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)This was later known to be the result of concentrating the minute amount of complete antibody found in these sera ; when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal_to that of the original serum sample , no complete antibody activity could be detected . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)The length of the arrow indicates amount of slowing or acceleration at Completion over that at Onset , and the difference in months can be read roughly by referring the arrow to the age scale along the base of each figure , or more precisely by referring to the original data in the appropriate tables . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of
Examples "a truly original approach" "with original music" "an original mind" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)The basic mystery of dreams , which embraces all the others and challenges us from even the most common typical dream , is in the fact that they are original , visual continuities . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)In a like sense whatever bits or shreds of previous conceptions one may find in it , Utopian communism remains , as an integral whole , original - a new thing . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)Stowey_Rummel was internationally famous , a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes , an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)`` Mr._Jones , you may recall that we printed last week your denial of having retracted the contradiction of your original statement . |
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[ noun ] an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
Synonyms Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)There is a break in continuity just before the fourth variation in the `` Forellen '' movement , and I suspect that this is_due to imperfect splicing between sides of the original SPs . Although lacking absolute verisimilitude , they supply the ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation of the original . From the technical standpoint , records differ from live music to the degree that they fail to convey the true color , texture , complexity , range , intensity , pulse , and pitch of the original . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an original model on which something is patterned
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)That Prokofieff 's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears , may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)In 1960 , David_D._Thomas published Basic Vocabulary in some Mon_Khmer Languages AL 2 , no. 3 , pp. 7 - 11 ) , which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( * * f ) in_place_of original ( * * f ) , and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards_Greater_Accuracy ( IJAL_21_:_121_-_137 ) . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not derived or copied or translated from something else
Examples "the play is original not an adaptation" "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox" "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" Related terms |
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