imitation
IPA: ɪmʌtˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of imitating.
- (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
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Examples of "imitation" in Sentences
- Children learn to talk by imitation.
- Imitation is the best form of flattery
- Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
- Basically the imitations are part of the plot.
- As they say, imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
- In other news this week, I learned first hand that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- Officers found a 13-year-old boy holding two air soft pistols, which they described as imitation firearms.
- He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the eastern authors.
- If the imitation is exact, the term _strict imitation_ is applied, but if only approximate, then the term _free imitation_ is used in referring to it.
- At first, in imitation of Daguerre, Conway tried coating silver plates with the silence, but realizing that sound requires space in which to resonate, he switched to glass lanterns.
- The fashionable hour was high noon, though in imitation of the English, afternoon weddings were popular, and three p.m. was popular for winter weddings, and four p.m. in the spring.
- Fuseli and Coleridge falsely apply the term imitation, making "a distinction between imitation and copying, representing the first as the legitimate function of art -- the latter as its corruption."
- Peering through the windows at the spectacles hosted by white planters, enslaved blacks would then prance and preen in imitation of whites at their own dances, using exaggerated movements, curtsys and bows to and adopting “high-toned” clothing to mock.
- Peering through the windows at the spectacles hosted by white planters, enslaved blacks would then prance and preen in imitation of whites at their own dances, using exaggerated movements, curtsys and bows to and adopting “high-toned” clothing to [...]