Imitate vs Recreate - What's the difference?
imitate | recreate |
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.
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
* Dryden
* Dr H. More
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
* Jeremy Taylor
To take recreation.
To create anew.
As verbs the difference between imitate and recreate
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.imitate
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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.
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* * ----recreate
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Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.Verb
(recreat)- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
