0 present participle of imitate
1 to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something:
By the same logic, groups that do not adopt appropriate rules, whether by inventing or by imitating them, are likely to decline.
In particular, we focus on the task of grasping a book by imitating human movements.
Candidates include response to corruption scandals and imitating a seemingly successful foreign example.
If the call already existed in the "imitating" animal's repertoire, the animal may have produced the call for reasons other than imitation.
It may be the case that the diffusion of privatisation was the result merely of imitating the policies of others and their fads and fashions.
A simple mechanism could explain how one differentiates activity caused by looking at one's self, another person imitating you, or just another person.
Expert systems originated in the 1970s as computer programs capable of imitating human experts and even substituting them when necessary.
Soon, however, they became synchronized - mutually musically responsive, they looked at one another, sometimes matching rhythms played on different instruments, sometimes imitating.
