Mimics vs Imitate - What's the difference?
mimics | imitate |
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.
As verbs the difference between mimics and imitate
is that mimics is third-person singular of mimic while imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.As a noun mimics
is plural of lang=en.imitate
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.
