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Imitate vs Mimicking - What's the difference?

imitate | mimicking |

As verbs the difference between imitate and mimicking

is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while mimicking is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun mimicking is

mimicry.

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.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * create

    Related terms

    * imitation * imitative * imitable * imitator

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    mimicking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • mimicry
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • They had a thousand odd stories and jokes about the events of the day, and burlesque descriptions and mimickings of the spectators who had been admiring them.