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Imitate vs Inmate - What's the difference?

imitate | inmate |

As a verb imitate

is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

As a noun inmate is

a person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).

imitate

English

Verb

(imitat)
  • 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)
    • 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.
  • To copy.

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    * See also

    Antonyms

    * create

    Related terms

    * imitation * imitative * imitable * imitator

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    inmate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient)
  • A person who occupies or dwells within a dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.

    • Usage notes

    Perhaps around 1970, television journalists began to use the word as a euphemism for "prisoner", and today perhaps many young people cannot remember that it ever had any other meaning.

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