Imitate vs Immediate - What's the difference?
imitate | immediate |
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.
Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Very close; direct or adjacent.
* Shakespeare
Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
As a verb imitate
is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.As an adjective immediate is
; immediate (without delay).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
Adjective
(en adjective)- Assemble we immediate council.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- You are the most immediate to our throne.