1
[ verb ] reproduce someone's behavior or looks

Synonyms

imitate ape copy

Examples

"The mime imitated the passers-by" "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

2
[ verb ] reproduce someone's behavior or looks

Synonyms

imitate copy

Examples

"The mime imitated the passers-by" "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

Used in print

(Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)

The mechanism of this coupling has been studied in some detail with non-enzymatic systems in_vitro and can be simulated by certain di-iodotyrosine analogues ( Pitt-Rivers and James , 1958 ) .

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

It was for this reason , and no other that I can see , that in September 1912 , Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper , instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint .

Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' .

(Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)

Five of the tests were conducted with a polyethylene cover to simulate an ice cover .

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo 's solitary bachelor room with his sketches , asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna .

3
[ verb ] create a representation or model of

Synonyms

model

Examples

"The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"

Related terms

re-create analogy

4
[ verb ] enact or perform again

Synonyms

reenact model

Examples

"They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

Related terms

re-create

5
[ verb ] make a pretense of

Synonyms

sham feign assume

Examples

"She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger" "he feigned sleep"

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