Imitate vs Ditto - What's the difference?
imitate | ditto |
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.
That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
* Charles Dickens
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(informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator
A copy; an imitation.
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A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
* 1989 , K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala
Used to show agreement with what another person has said.
*Boy: "I'm really busy today!"
*Girl: "Ditto! "
As verbs the difference between imitate and ditto
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while ditto is to repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.As a noun ditto is
that which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.As an adverb ditto is
as said before, likewise.As an interjection ditto is
used to show agreement with what another person has said.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.
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- A spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners.
- Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
Synonyms
* (symbol) ditto mark, (abbreviation)Verb
(en verb)- The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
