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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate |
| Synonyms: | act like, ape, burlesque, do, do a take-off, do like, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, fake, follow, follow example, follow suit, go like, illustrate, incarnate, knock off, make like, mimic, mirror, mock, model, parody, parrot, personify, phony, pirate, play a role, prefigure, repeat, sham, simulate, steal, take leaf out of book, take off, travesty, typify |
| Notes: | Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process |
| Antonyms: | be original |
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a copy; repeat |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do a takeoff, do again, do like, double, dualize, dupe, echo, fake, go like, imitate, knock off, make like, make replica, make twofold, manifold, mimeo, mirror, multiply, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate*, redo, redouble, reduplicate, remake, replicate, repro, reproduce, rework, stat, take off as, trace |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be; do an impression of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, be like, borrow, burlesque, carbon, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do likewise, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, forge, impersonate, look like, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, model after, parallel, parody, pattern after, personate, play a part, pretend, put on*, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, reproduce, resemble, send up, sham, simulate, spoof, take off, travesty |
| Notes: | emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks |
| Antonyms: | be original, clash, differ, oppose, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impersonate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be another |
| Synonyms: | act, act a part, act like, act out, ape, assume character, ditto*, do, do an impression of, double as, dress as, enact, fake, imitate, make like, masquerade as, mimic, mirror, pass oneself off as, perform, personate, play, play a role, playact, portray, pose as, put on an act, represent, take the part of |
| Antonyms: | be original, differ, oppose, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mirror |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy, reflect |
| Synonyms: | act like, depict, double, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, exemplify, follow, glass, illustrate, image, imitate, make like, mimic, personify, represent, show, simulate, symbolize, take off, typify |
| Main Entry: | portray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent, imitate |
| Synonyms: | act like, characterize, copy, delineate, depict, describe, draw, duplicate, figure, illustrate, image, impersonate, interpret, limn, mimic, paint, parody, photograph, picture, render, reproduce, simulate, sketch |
| Main Entry: | simulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, imitate |
| Synonyms: | act, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, borrow, cheat, concoct, copy, counterfeit, crib*, deceive, disguise, dissemble, do, do a take-off, do like, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, favor, feature, feign, fence, gloss over, invent, knock off, lie, lift, make believe, mimic, mirror, misrepresent, phony, pirate, play, playact, pose, prevaricate, put on an act, put on*, replicate, reproduce, resemble, steal |
| Antonyms: | be real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | take after |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emulate |
| Synonyms: | act like, be like, copy, ditto*, do like, follow, follow in the footsteps of, follow suit, follow the example of, imitate, inherit, look like, make like, mimic, mirror, pattern after, rival |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Concept: | [Result of imitation.] Copy. |
| Category: | 3. PARTIAL RELATION |
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-nouns
copy, facsimile, xerox, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, similitude, semblance, cast, tracing, ectype, photo offset, electrotype; imitation; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait (representment); resemblance., duplicate; transcript, transcription; reflex, reflexion, reflection; shadow, echo; recording, scan; chip off the old block; reprint, reproduction; second edition (repetition); rechauffe; apograph, fair copy, revise., parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase., [copy with some differences] derivative, modification, expansion, extension., servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake (deception); pasticcio.
-adjectives
faithful; lifelike (similar); close, conscientious., unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
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| Antonyms: | prototype |
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