imitate

Main Entry:
imitate [im-i-teyt]
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
Main Entry: ape
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mimic
Synonyms: affect, caricature, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do like, do*, echo, emulate, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mirror, mock, parody, parrot, take off, travesty
Notes: a monkey is a primate and not a type of ape, an ape is a primate and not a type of monkey, and a chimpanzee is a type of ape (so it's a primate but not a monkey)
Main Entry: assume
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend
Synonyms: act, adopt, affect, bluff, counterfeit, fake, feign, imitate, impersonate, mimic, pretend, put on, simulate
Notes: assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case'
Main Entry: borrow
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: adopt from another source; appropriate
Synonyms: acquire, adopt, assume, copy, filch, imitate, make one's own, obtain, pilfer, pirate, plagiarize, simulate, steal, take, use, usurp
Antonyms: give, return
Main Entry: copy
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: duplicate
Synonyms: Xerox, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off, limn, manifold, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe
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
Main Entry: counterfeit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make deceitful imitation
Synonyms: Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, circulate bad money, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, do like, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, go like, imitate, impersonate, knock off, make like, make money, mimeo, mimic, mint, phony up, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, stat
Antonyms: be honest
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)
Main Entry: echo
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: repeat, copy
Synonyms: ape, ditto*, do like, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, rubber-stamp, second, vibrate
Main Entry: emulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: copy the actions of
Synonyms: challenge, compete, compete with, contend, contend with, ditto*, do like, do*, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, follow the example of, go like, imitate, make like, mimic, mirror, outvie, pattern after, rival, rivalize, take after, vie with
Notes: emulate means to strive to equal, excel, or match by imitating; imitate means to reproduce or copy someone's behavior or looks
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