Imitate vs Stimulate - What's the difference?
imitate | stimulate |
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 encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
As verbs the difference between imitate and stimulate
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while stimulate is to encourage into action.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.