Definition of imitation

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Imitation (n.) The act of imitating.

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Script :: Script (n.) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..
Corrective :: Corrective (n.) Limitation; restriction.
Birdcall :: Birdcall (n.) A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.
Imitation :: Imitation (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon..
Mimesis :: Mimesis (n.) Imitation; mimicry.
Odontolite :: Odontolite (n.) A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise..
Cambric :: Cambric (n.) A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin..
Transcript :: Transcript (n.) A copy of any kind; an imitation.
Apishly :: Apishly (adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
Undefine :: Undefine (v. t.) To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation..
Take-off :: Take-off (n.) An imitation, especially in the way of caricature..
Term :: Term (n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years..
Bantam Work :: Bantam work () Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
Prefinition :: Prefinition (n.) Previous limitation.
Image :: Image (n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance..
Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
Mannheim Gold :: Mannheim gold () A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc.
Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..
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