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imitate English

Meaning imitate meaning

What does imitate mean?
Definitions in simple English

imitate

To imitate is to copy what someone else says or does. The monkey imitated every action I made.

imitate

(= copy) reproduce someone's behavior or looks The mime imitated the passers-by Children often copy their parents or older siblings appear like, as in behavior or appearance Life imitate art make a reproduction or copy of

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imitate · verb

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Simple sentences

Schweitzer is a man to imitate.
This bird can imitate the human voice.
Parrots often imitate human speech.
Parrots are the only animal that can imitate human speech.
The children tried to imitate their teacher.
Children imitate their friends rather than their parents.
He can imitate the rest of the family.
I think it's very difficult for an Englishman to imitate a real American accent.
Do not try to imitate her.
This is something to imitate!
I like to imitate Queen Elizabeth.
Parrots imitate human speech.
A parrot can imitate human speech.
Children imitate their parents' habits.
Be your own person and don't imitate others.
Parrots imitate the words of humans.
A parrot can imitate the human voice.
Some birds can imitate the human voice.
Tom tried to imitate Mary.

Movie subtitles

To him, you're just a machine pouring out money, a machine he's trying to imitate.
Criminals on all sides for my boys to look up to and revere and respect and admire and imitate.
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger.
Then did they imitate that which I composed to my courser, for my horse is my mistress.
They imitate us in all departments.
I can imitate anything.
She used to take fancy dresses. and imitate the actresses she saw in the theater.
I can't understand how this thief can imitate me so perfectly.
To imitate him, I'd need to wear three layers of armor.
Imitate a bear.
I can't imitate a bear.
Each time I cried my father would imitate me on his fiddle just to drive me nuts.
But robbers could not imitate Jurand's seal or the writing of his priest. Who could do that?
Imitate my signature.
You can imitate her too?
Trying to imitate an officer?
In that case, I shall imitate their gestapo and become invisible myself.
You've heard Beverly imitate Lord Bottomley before, haven't you? Yes, yes, of course, but why?
Kind of a bad man to imitate.
My signature is not pretty, but it's hard to imitate.
Did you ever hear Earl imitate Chinese?
All I can imitate's a duck.
You used to imitate Chinese, Earl.
Imitate Chinese, Earl.
Imitate Chinese.
She used to take fancy dresses and imitate the actresses she saw in the theater.
Hey, Henry, can you still imitate a horse?
Were we brought into the world to imitate our grandmothers, to feed canaries and fill in embroidery patterns?
Figured once she could imitate French, she'd have no trouble imitating english.
These modern women who try to imitate men.
Don't imitate other people.
You wanted to imitate a folk art motif.
So the two styles resembled each other, though it was never our intention to imitate.

News and current affairs

We would do well to recall how, at the beginning of the 1990's, book after book was still being written urging US and European corporations to imitate Japan or face certain doom.
The machines can now even be set to imitate famous human players - including their flaws - so well that only an expert eye (and sometimes only another computer!) can tell the difference.
Of course, others might be tempted to imitate Greece if Greece were indeed better off restructuring than not doing so.
Admiration for American values does not mean, of course, that others want to imitate all the ways Americans implement them.
In this view, America's ingenuity represents its true comparative advantage, which others strive to imitate.
Indeed, this vainglorious attempt by Kim Jong-il reminds Koreans of the mother bullfrog in Aesop's Fables who puffed herself out to imitate an ox.
For example, autistic individuals imitate others less and in a different manner than healthy subjects.
Both major political parties look tired, and at the same time as if they are competing to imitate each other.
They could easily imitate the North Vietnamese strategy of professing to accept a compromise peace settlement in order to secure a foreign military withdrawal.
Other regions tried to imitate its success, but none succeeded.

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