Imitate vs Modify - What's the difference?
imitate | modify |
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.
To make partial changes to.
To be or become modified.
As verbs the difference between imitate and modify
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while modify is to make partial changes to.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.