0 to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something -- 模仿，仿效
They searched for some convincing drum sounds, and experimented with responses that imitated, inverted or varied a call.
By the same logic, groups that do not adopt appropriate rules, whether by inventing or by imitating them, are likely to decline.
These productions met the criteria listed above for untrained words except that all productions, imitated, elicited, and spontaneous, were coded.
Figure 5 shows the number of children who produced different proportions of correct imitated and elicited questions with each auxiliary form.
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.
In the midst of a forest of legs the mechanical animals seemed to imitate the kind of gender discrimination pursued by their human counterparts.
This text works like other magico-ritual texts; its entextualized movement (of tenses) imitates the cosmic end being ritually enacted - magic!
