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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.
- Imitate - v. t. - To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.
- 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.
- Imitated - imp. & p. p. - of Imitate
- Imitater - n. - One who imitates.
- Ceraunoscope - n. - An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
- Palmer - n. - Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
- Automaton - v. i. - A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
- Squid - n. - A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- Model - v. i. - To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
- Mimic - v. t. - To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
- Celluloid - n. - A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
- Marbrinus - n. - A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- Apostolic - n. - A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
- Dotterel - v. i. - A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
- Patrizate - v. i. - To imitate one's father.
- Laconize - v. i. - To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.
- Imitative - a. - Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative.
- Cynanthropy - n. - A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.
- Counterfeit - v. t. - To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
- Londonize - v. i. - To imitate the manner of the people of London.
- 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.
- Apish - a. - Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
- Plashing - n. - The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
- Sympodial - a. - Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.
- Ape - v. t. - To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
- Resemble - v. t. - To cause to imitate or be like.
- Parrot - n. - Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
- Roan - n. - A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
- Daguerreotype - v. t. - To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
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- G1811 ἐξακολουθέω - 1811 ἐξακολουθέω - ἘΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ - - exakolouthéō - ex-ak-ol-oo-theh'-o - from ἐκ and ἀκολουθέω; to follow out, i.e. (figuratively) to imitate, obey, yield to:--follow. - Verb - greek
- G3401 μιμέομαι - 3401 μιμέομαι - ΜΙΜΈΟΜΑΙ - - miméomai - mim-eh'-om-ahee - middle voice from (a "mimic"); to imitate:--follow. - Verb - greek