الأخذ الظاهر: أن يؤخذ المعنى كله
Overt taking consists in taking the whole meaning.
This yields three possibilities: retaining the earlier thought together with its wording and arrangement; retaining the thought while changing some words or order; or expressing essentially the same thought through a newly composed verbal form.
All concern transmission of the earlier meaning, but they differ in how much of its wording remains. That distinction motivates the categories of copying, attribution and altered borrowing.