0 past simple and past 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:
Thus, perception of action already activates neural structures involved in motor planning of actions to be imitated later.
An examination of patents for machinery shows that most were not radically new inventions, but closely imitated familiar techniques for manufacturing bricks by hand.
The original world-making power, physis, degenerates into a prototype to be copied and imitated.
They may have imitated the action, or seen the product and attempted to reproduce it, or have repeated their accidental discovery.
We see that defectors obtain a higher payoff, so they have a higher probability of being imitated.
When a phoneme was evident in imitated speech, it was consistently evident in both languages simultaneously.
Institutions of more successful societies tend to be imitated by less successful ones.
Strategies of co-residence initially developed by migrants were later imitated by locally born inhabitants.
