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The original person or thing, happened or existed before others of its kind. The book has been translated from the original Russian version. The police were able to return to the goods to the original owners. If something is original, it is new and creative. Mendelssohn's C minor Trio is a highly original work. If you are original, you are creative and different from other people. He's one of Canada's most original thinkers.

original

An original is a piece of writing or a work of art that is not a copy. I'll give you a copy and we'll keep the original here.

original

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed the original inhabitants of the Americas the book still has its original binding restored the house to its original condition the original performance of the opera the original cast retracted his original statement (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of a truly original approach with original music an original mind an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies this painting is a copy of the original not derived or copied or translated from something else 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

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True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, wherever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.
Who were the original people here?
I find this sentence relatively original.
Tom makes his own original Christmas cards every year.
In order to keep his original idea from being copied, Henry resorted to reticence.
Bill has a lot of original ideas.
The translation was true to the original.
The translation is quite true to the original.
The translation is true to the original.
The translation was nicely true to the original.
The copy agrees with the original.
What do you think of the original plan?
The movie is not so interesting as the original.
This is an exact copy of the original.
This book is abridged from the original.
That translation is said to be true to the original.
That copy differs from the original.
This road should have already been completed according to the original plan.
I insisted that we change our original plan.
I'm sticking to my original plan.
Compare the copy with the original.
He compared the copy with the original.
His translation is close to the original.

Movie subtitles

Hey, listen, I'm the original bro.
Where are the original ledgers?
Neither interesting nor original.
It's not. no, no, go back to the original.
English titles based on the Czech original (the Italian titles are reconstructions).
This film has been restored by Marguerite Engberg from a master print. made from the original negative.
The English intertitles are translations from the original Danish ones.
This copy allows us to use the original tinting.
The missing scenes were found in a fragment of a copy with french intertitles, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana made available. The german intertitles correspond as far as possible to the original negative.
I thought it was an original idea of mine.
THE JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS OF MOTHER KRAUSE restored in 1957 from a version made by Otto Nagel for the State Film Society of the GDR with new intertitles. It had an original length in 1929 after censorship of 2,846 m (125 minutes).
The basis for the reconstruction by the Filmarchiv of Munich was the original script. Only incomplete copies and fragments of the original film exist.
The original negative is lost.
It's an original act, though.
The original?
Most original.
Let's see how yours compares with the original.
They've taken the original.
Imagine them getting the original.
That's an epic. Make two carbon copies and throw the original away.
Someone switched it for mine, thinking they got the original.
What have you done with the original?
The 13 original colonies.
What you see here is an ordinary top hat, an original British top hat.
Original Russian.
No, the music you are hearing is not Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which was used under the main title for four Universal horror films, beginning with Dracula in 1931, but this is an original score by Heinz Roemheld.
He created the role of the Captain in the stage production of the extremely popular Mister Roberts in 1948, and stayed with it during its original three-year run.
The scene in the hospital wasn't in the original script.
I'm the original bro.
Something gay and original, I hope.
Almost as beautiful as the original.
I want to see the original pictures of Joan Gale.
I was hoping for something original.
An overcall may be made with a much weaker hand than an original bid, a fact which the partner must bear in mind.
Just my original agreement with Frazier: 50 percent of everything.
Well, it was original with me at the moment.
Instead of presenting the ballet in its original form, as a simple series of tribal dances, they have visualized it as a pageant, as the story of the growth of life on Earth.
With the original deed in our possession, the government must compensate us.
Old maps, and the original architect's plans of Seven Gables.
An original piece of the period it was for many years a part of the famous Holbrook collection.

News and current affairs

But, in some cases, the harmonized standard could be more stringent than some countries' original standards.
Second, where they do consider harmonization, they could favor the less stringent of the original standards, unless there is credible evidence that it would not support the relevant regulatory objective.
The CAP's original aim was to provide a secure source of food for the six original member states of the Union, which were importers of food and sought a degree of self-sufficiency.
As a result, the new pasture land or farmland is soon abandoned, with no prospect for regeneration of the original forest and its unique ecosystems.
The New Yorker confirmed the story much later - without crediting the original source.
Only after the vote did the Chief of Staff publicly endorse the original proposal to bring in American troops.
It is also a rich and original literary achievement that challenges today's consumerist ethic.
But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.
The original concept was that the two bodies would reach a consensus on a candidate.
But of course the point of the original joke was that the curate was just being polite: an egg is either good or bad, and his was bad.
That, of course, means that economists must be willing to include new and original theories that are not yet received doctrine among professional specialists.
They also explained why shocks to the economy might be amplified, and their effects persist, well after the original disturbance disappeared.
A European nation-state in this sense was untenable even for the original six members of the European Community - all of them highly industrialized countries with similar social and political traditions and institutions.
Perhaps only someone who comes from one of the post-Soviet states can conceive of politics in terms of original principles in the manner of Rawls.
Blindsided by the crisis of 2007-2008, the Fed has compounded its original misdiagnosis of the problem by repeatedly doubling down on tactical responses, with two rounds of QE preceding the current, open-ended iteration.
Bush's statement took this form because the CIA objected to the original version, which flatly stated that Saddam Hussein had sought to buy uranium from Africa.
This renewed embrace of the market, reminiscent of Deng Xiaoping's original turn to capitalism in 1979, will be hard medicine for China's entrenched business and government elites to swallow.
The second reason why Liu deserves the Nobel Peace Prize resonates with Alfred Nobel's original intent for the award.
The original inspiration behind the creation of the IMF was that a largely automatic and rule-governed body would be a less politicized way of stabilizing markets and expectations.
BRUSSELS - The European Union's core countries these days, besides the original six founders, are the 15 member states that make up the European Monetary Union.

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