React vs Imitate - What's the difference?
react | imitate |
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
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.
As verbs the difference between react and imitate
is that react is to act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact while imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.react
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(en verb)- to react''' a play; the same scenes were '''reacted at Rome
Derived terms
* reactive * reactorAnagrams
*imitate
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(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.
