Definition of imitate

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Imitate (v. t.) To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc..

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Shama :: Shama (n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut..
Resemble :: Resemble (v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Trace :: Trace (v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
Near :: Near (adv.) Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original..
Brick :: Brick (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them..
Palmer :: Palmer (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle..
Imitate :: Imitate (v. t.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds..
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (v. t.) To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Pindarist :: Pindarist (n.) One who imitates Pindar.
Inimitable :: Inimitable (a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence..
Cynanthropy :: Cynanthropy (n.) A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal..
Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia..
Travesty :: Travesty (v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous..
Imitated :: Imitated (imp. & p. p.) of Imitat.
Ballade :: Ballade (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy..
Resemble :: Resemble (v. t.) To cause to imitate or be like.
Laconize :: Laconize (v. i.) To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity..
Emulate :: Emulate (v. t.) To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great..
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