Cultivate vs Imitate - What's the difference?
cultivate | imitate |
To grow plants, notably crops
To nurture; to foster; to tend.
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
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 cultivate and imitate
is that cultivate is to grow plants, notably crops while imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.cultivate
English
Verb
(cultivat)- Farmers should cultivate their crops to get a good harvest.
- They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
Derived terms
* cultivable * cultivar * cultivated * cultivation * cultivator * uncultivatedimitate
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.