Imidate vs Imitate - What's the difference?
imidate | 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 a noun imidate
is (organic chemistry) any ether of an imine, having general formula r-n=c(or)r.As a verb imitate is
to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.imidate
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imitate
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(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.