Used in a Sentence

originals

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for originals.

Editorial note

They are almost certainly new trees - the originals having been cut down in the decades after the battle.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of originals gathered in one view.

noun

An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

noun

A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.

noun

A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for originals.

noun

An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

noun

A person with a unique and interesting personality or creative talent.

noun

A newly designed garment released by a fashion designer as part of a collection.

noun

A ridgeling.

Example sentences

1

They are almost certainly new trees - the originals having been cut down in the decades after the battle.

2

You have to be careful and basically only touch the originals to let changes propagate one-way to the cloud proxy.

3

Material possessions are socially discounted; creating new designs, new originals the new currency to excel.

4

They probably have copyright on the actual files as well as the product that they created when capturing the analog originals digitally.

5

I enjoyed the last 2 books of the series, although not nearly as much as the originals.

6

It's interesting how the copies are (inevitably) always deeply inferior to the originals.

7

Best thing is that it lets you configure whether you sync previews, thumbnails or originals to each device and even which photos to sync.

8

Thank you for saving me the job of linking to TNMoC, they have identical replicas, and occasionally originals, of exactly this kind of project i.e.

9

Apparently it's not the same ingredients as the US originals.

10

Wow, these are way better than the Google Inceptionism originals.

11

Without comparing the originals to his version, I have no idea if his formatting was obvious and mechanical, or if it required creativity.

12

It's not for everyone, while I feel the originals of Frank Herbert may be, at least to people with a taste for sci-fi.

Quote examples

1

But people really like (or "like") sugar and cigarettes, so the most likely outcome of loudly proclaiming the dangers of substitutes is that more people stay with the originals, which are almost certainly worse.

2

But it's only unlimited if you allow them to manage the compression; if you want to manage the files yourself ( the "originals" ) you're constrained as to storage on both Amazon and Google.

3

I'm tending to keep all of my originals in case I ever want to flip through the full set, but I've been tagging a smaller portion into either a "good photography" or "good family/etc memory" categories.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use originals in a sentence?

They are almost certainly new trees - the originals having been cut down in the decades after the battle.

What does originals mean?

An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.

What part of speech is originals?

originals is commonly used as noun.