Imitate vs Simulate - What's the difference?
imitate | simulate |
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 model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
As verbs the difference between imitate and simulate
is that imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of while simulate is to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.As an adjective simulate is
feigned; pretended.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.
Synonyms
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* * ----simulate
English
Verb
(simulat)- We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.