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imitate

verb
/ˈɪmɪteɪt/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imitātus, perfect active participle of imitor (“to copy, portray, imitate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French imiter.

  1. borrowed from imitātus

Definitions

  1. To follow as a model or a pattern

    To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

    • A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.
    • The room was dark and cool, lit with a dim red light. “This was designed to imitate a cave,” said Rosas.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at imitate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at imitate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at imitate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA