imitation

Roget category 19

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.2. Relation
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#19. Imitation

noun

imitation — copying etc. v. — transcription — repetition, duplication, reduplication — quotation — reproduction — mimeograph, xerox, facsimile — reprint, offprint.
mockery, mimicry — simulation, impersonation, personation — representation etc. 554 — semblance — copy etc. 21 — assimilation.
paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature etc. 21.
plagiarism — forgery, counterfeit etc. (falsehood) 544 — celluloid.
imitator, echo, cuckoo^†, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime — copyist, copycat — plagiarist, pirate.

verb

imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat — do like, echo, reecho, catch — transcribe — match, parallel.
mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate — act etc. (drama) 599 — represent etc. 554 — counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.
follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of — take pattern by — follow suit, follow the example of — walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit — take after, model after — emulate.

adjective

imitated etc. v. — mock, mimic — modelled after, molded on.
paraphrastic — literal — imitative — secondhand — imitable — aping, apish, mimicking.

adverb

literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim [Lat.], sic, totidem verbis [Lat.], word for word, mot a mot [Fr.] — exactly, precisely.

phrase

like master like man —" like - but oh! how different! " [Wordsworth]; genius borrows nobly" [Emerson]; pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks" [A. Coles]; quotation confesses inferiority" [Emerson]; Imitation is the sincerest form of Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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