imitate

«imitate» in Mova's school dictionary: To copy the way someone speaks, moves or behaves — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (imitate, imitates, imitated, imitating)

meaning for a pupil

1) To copy the way someone speaks, moves or behaves. tree →

2) To make something look or sound like something else. tree →

3) To follow someone as an example: «imitate your heroes». tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, young children learn by imitating adults; in music and drama pupils imitate sounds. In nature some animals imitate others to stay safe (mimicry). In church life Christians try to imitate Jesus. Phrases: imitate a voice, imitate a sound, try to imitate.

examples

• Parrots can imitate human voices. tree →
• My brother imitates the teacher's voice to make us laugh. tree →
• Young children imitate what they see adults do. tree →
• Some harmless flies imitate wasps to scare off birds. tree →
• The clarinet imitates the cuckoo in this piece of music. tree →
• Christians try to imitate Jesus in kindness. tree →
• "How should I?" I replied, resolved to imitate the princess in her fidelity. tree →

note

Noun: imitation, imitator. Similar: copy, mimic. Imitating to mock someone can be unkind.

In the corpora

• An app that imitates a famous person who has died is a bot copying a style; the person is not there.
• The King decides that the Knave must have imitated someone's handwriting, and that not signing it proves he is up to mischief.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «imitate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.