| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To mimic, emulate, simulate, ape or mime. [Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To copy or transcribe. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To falsify or plagiarize. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To impersonate or personify. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To follow or pursue. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To trace or trail. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To replicate or reproduce. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To pattern or model.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Present participle conjugation of the verb imitate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (imitate) |
1. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by".[Wordnet]. 2. Appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art".[Wordnet]. 3. Make a reproduction or copy of.[Wordnet]. 4. To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.[Websters]. 5. To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.[Websters]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: imitating, imitated, imitates, imitator, imitators, imitatingly and imitatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "Imitating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Following in manner; copying.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of imitate. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: IMITATING | ||||
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| Life imitating art | 3 | Life imitating art | 3 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Abakwariga | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Abakwariga, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Arabiya | اِئْتَمَّ بـِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), تَأَمَّمَ بِـ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), قَفَا (nape, chase, chased, chases, chasing), قَصَدَ قَصْدَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَكَى (narrate, recount, relate, tell, ape), حَذَا حَذْوَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَذَا (copy, ape, aped, apes, aping), حاكَى (copy, emulate, imitate, ape, aped), تَرَسَّمَ (trace, chase, chased, chases, chasing), نَهَجَ على مِنْوالِهِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | اِئْتَمَّ بـِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), تَأَمَّمَ بِـ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), قَفَا (nape, chase, chased, chases, chasing), قَصَدَ قَصْدَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَكَى (narrate, recount, relate, tell, ape), حَذَا حَذْوَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَذَا (copy, ape, aped, apes, aping), حاكَى (copy, emulate, imitate, ape, aped), تَرَسَّمَ (trace, chase, chased, chases, chasing), نَهَجَ على مِنْوالِهِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | اِئْتَمَّ بـِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), تَأَمَّمَ بِـ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), قَفَا (nape, chase, chased, chases, chasing), قَصَدَ قَصْدَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَكَى (narrate, recount, relate, tell, ape), حَذَا حَذْوَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَذَا (copy, ape, aped, apes, aping), حاكَى (copy, emulate, imitate, ape, aped), تَرَسَّمَ (trace, chase, chased, chases, chasing), نَهَجَ على مِنْوالِهِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bahasa Indonesia | pembeoan (imitating, parroting). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bahasa Malaysia | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Bahasa Malaysia, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bahasa Malayu | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Bahasa Malayu, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Beaujolais | dégâiller (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating). Additional references: Beaujolais, France, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bohemian | napodobování (mimicking, apery, emulation, imitation, imitating), imitování (imitation, imitating). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bourguignon | rejeigner (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating). Additional references: Bourguignon, France, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | imitando (imitating), copiando (imitating), tingindo (imbuing, imitating), macaqueando (imitating, mocking), forjando (concocting, contriving, feigning, imitating, manipulating), contrafazendo (imitating), arremedando (imitating), imitador (imitator, impersonator, ape, apish, copier), imitating (imitating), Imitar (to imitate, imitate, copy, ape, counterfeit). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | napodobování (mimicking, apery, emulation, imitation, imitating), imitování (imitation, imitating). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 模仿 (imitate, to copy, to imitate, imitation, imitates), 冒充 (imitating, imitation, imposture), 效法 (emulate, follow the example of, imitation, emulation, imitating). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corse | piglià l'impiti (imitate, to imitate, copying, duplicate, falsify), copià (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, emulate), imità (imitate, to imitate, make, to make, cause), cuntraffà (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, copying), cupià (imitate, to imitate, to transcribe, trace, transcribe). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsi | piglià l'impiti (imitate, to imitate, copying, duplicate, falsify), copià (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, emulate), imità (imitate, to imitate, make, to make, cause), cuntraffà (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, copying), cupià (imitate, to imitate, to transcribe, trace, transcribe). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsican | piglià l'impiti (imitate, to imitate, copying, duplicate, falsify), copià (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, emulate), imità (imitate, to imitate, make, to make, cause), cuntraffà (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, copying), cupià (imitate, to imitate, to transcribe, trace, transcribe). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corso | piglià l'impiti (imitate, to imitate, copying, duplicate, falsify), copià (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, emulate), imità (imitate, to imitate, make, to make, cause), cuntraffà (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, copying), cupià (imitate, to imitate, to transcribe, trace, transcribe). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Corsu | piglià l'impiti (imitate, to imitate, copying, duplicate, falsify), copià (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, emulate), imità (imitate, to imitate, make, to make, cause), cuntraffà (imitate, to imitate, mimic, aping, copying), cupià (imitate, to imitate, to transcribe, trace, transcribe). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | napodobování (mimicking, apery, emulation, imitation, imitating), imitování (imitation, imitating). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | nachahmend (imitative, imitating, simulating, pantomiming, copy), nachahmung (imitation, impersonation, mimicry, simulation, impression), nachahmen (imitate, to imitate, copy, mimic, mock), kopierend (copying, replicating, xeroxing, imitating, reproducing), imitierend (imitating). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Forézien | echargnî (imitate, to imitate, mimic, seek, to seek), echargnâ (imitate, to imitate, mimic, seek, to seek). Additional references: Forézien, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | copiant (imitating, copying), contrefaisant (imitating, counterfeiting), imiter (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copy, emulate), imitant (imitating, impersonating, aping), singeant (imitating), démarquant (imitating, plagiarizing), suivre l'exemple de (imitate, follow suit, imitating), imitateur (imitator, impersonator, mimic, copier, copy cat), copier (copy, imitate, to imitate, crib, duplicate). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | copiant (imitating, copying), contrefaisant (imitating, counterfeiting), imiter (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copy, emulate), imitant (imitating, impersonating, aping), singeant (imitating), démarquant (imitating, plagiarizing), suivre l'exemple de (imitate, follow suit, imitating), imitateur (imitator, impersonator, mimic, copier, copy cat), copier (copy, imitate, to imitate, crib, duplicate). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | nachahmend (imitative, imitating, simulating, pantomiming, copy), nachahmung (imitation, impersonation, mimicry, simulation, impression), nachahmen (imitate, to imitate, copy, mimic, mock), kopierend (copying, replicating, xeroxing, imitating, reproducing), imitierend (imitating). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Habe | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Habe, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Haoussa | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Haoussa, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hausa | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Hausa, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hausawa | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Hausawa, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | اِئْتَمَّ بـِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), تَأَمَّمَ بِـ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate), قَفَا (nape, chase, chased, chases, chasing), قَصَدَ قَصْدَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَكَى (narrate, recount, relate, tell, ape), حَذَا حَذْوَهُ (imitate, imitated, imitates, imitating), حَذَا (copy, ape, aped, apes, aping), حاكَى (copy, emulate, imitate, ape, aped), تَرَسَّمَ (trace, chase, chased, chases, chasing), نَهَجَ على مِنْوالِهِ (copied, copies, copy, copying, imitate). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | nachahmend (imitative, imitating, simulating, pantomiming, copy), nachahmung (imitation, impersonation, mimicry, simulation, impression), nachahmen (imitate, to imitate, copy, mimic, mock), kopierend (copying, replicating, xeroxing, imitating, reproducing), imitierend (imitating). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | nachahmend (imitative, imitating, simulating, pantomiming, copy), nachahmung (imitation, impersonation, mimicry, simulation, impression), nachahmen (imitate, to imitate, copy, mimic, mock), kopierend (copying, replicating, xeroxing, imitating, reproducing), imitierend (imitating). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Indonesian | pembeoan (imitating, parroting). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | contraffacendo (falsifying, imitating), imitare (imitate, to imitate, ape, mimic, copy), imitando (imitating), copiando (depreciating, engrossing, imitating, transcribing). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | まね (imitation, mimicry, behavior, behaviour, emulation). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kado | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Kado, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kisuaheli | mwigo (copy, copied, copies, imitation, imitations), miigo (copy, counterfeiting, forgery, imitating). Additional references: Kisuaheli, Tanzania, Burundi, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kiswahili | mwigo (copy, copied, copies, imitation, imitations), miigo (copy, counterfeiting, forgery, imitating). Additional references: Kiswahili, Tanzania, Burundi, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kololo | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Kololo, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Lozi | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Lozi, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Malay | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Malay, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Malayu | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Malayu, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Melaju | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Melaju, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Melayu | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Melayu, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Mgbakpa | kooyìì (imitating). Additional references: Mgbakpa, Nigeria, Benin, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Norman | déganer (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating). Additional references: Norman, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Norwegian | Etterlikning (dummy, emulation, imitating, mimesis). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ouolof | toppandoo (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating), roy (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copying, duplicate). Additional references: Ouolof, Senegal, Mauritania, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | copiando (imitating), arremedando (imitating), tingindo (imbuing, imitating), macaqueando (imitating, mocking), imitador (impersonator, faker, imitator, ape, apish), forjando (concocting, contriving, feigning, imitating, manipulating), contrafazendo (imitating), imitando (imitating), imitating (imitating), Imitar (imitate, to imitate, copy, ape, counterfeit). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Rotse | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Rotse, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Rozi | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Rozi, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian | имитировать имитирующий (imitating). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian (transliteration) | imitirovatʹ imitiruyushchiy (imitating). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki | имитировать имитирующий (imitating). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki (transliteration) | imitirovatʹ imitiruyushchiy (imitating). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Rutse | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Rutse, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Silozi | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Silozi, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | remedando (imitating, mocking), contrahaciendo (imitating), imitar (imitate, to imitate, mimic, ape, copy), imitando (imitating). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Standard Malay | terikut-ikut (imitating). Additional references: Standard Malay, Malaysia, Brunei, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Swahili | mwigo (copy, copied, copies, imitation, imitations), miigo (copy, counterfeiting, forgery, imitating). Additional references: Swahili, Tanzania, Burundi, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Tozvi | malikanyiso (imitation, manner of imitating), bulikanyisi (manner of imitating). Additional references: Tozvi, Zambia, Namibia, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Turkish | taklitçilik (mimicry, being a mimic or mocker, being an imitator or copier, copying, imitating), taklit (sham, false, imitation, simulation, counterfeit). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Vivaro-Alpine Occitan | escharnir (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating). Additional references: Vivaro-Alpine Occitan, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Volof | toppandoo (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating), roy (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copying, duplicate). Additional references: Volof, Senegal, Mauritania, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Walaf | toppandoo (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating), roy (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copying, duplicate). Additional references: Walaf, Senegal, Mauritania, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Waro-Waro | toppandoo (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating), roy (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copying, duplicate). Additional references: Waro-Waro, Senegal, Mauritania, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| West Indies French | moquer (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, forge). Additional references: West Indies French, Caribbean, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Wolof | toppandoo (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating), roy (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copying, duplicate). Additional references: Wolof, Senegal, Mauritania, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Yallof | toppandoo (imitate, to imitate, mimic, emulate, imitating), roy (imitate, to imitate, mimic, copying, duplicate). Additional references: Yallof, Senegal, Mauritania, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Yipunu | gukulile (imitate, to imitate, reproduce, to reproduce, mimic). Additional references: Yipunu, Gabon, imitating. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
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| Language | Translations for “imitating” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Athag | athagimathagitathagatathaging (imitating). Additional references: Athag, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Double Dutch | agimagitagataging (imitating). Additional references: Double Dutch, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Leet | 1//.11^11^/9 (imitating). Additional references: Leet, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Oppish | opimopitopatoping (imitating). Additional references: Oppish, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Pig Latin | imitatingway (imitating). Additional references: Pig Latin, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Slovio | imititsju (imitating). Additional references: Slovio, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran A | imititsju (imitating). Additional references: Terran A, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | ioptando (imitating). Additional references: Terran B, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
| Ubbi Dubbi | ubimubitubatubing (imitating). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, imitating. (volunteer) | |||
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| Language | Period | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | ||
| Latin | 500 BCE - 1700 | simulans (copy, counterfeit, feint, imitate, look like). Additional references: Latin, imitating. (volunteer) | ||
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