Imitate vs Act - What's the difference?
imitate | act |
To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
* 1870 , Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)
To copy.
A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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As verbs the difference between imitate and act
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while act is to do something.As a proper noun ACT is
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English
Verb
(imitat)- Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.