Imitation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IMITATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of imitating, a copy
• the action of using someone or something as a model
• the repetition of a phrase or melody in another part or voice, usually at a different pitch.
• a thing intended to simulate or copy something else
• copy of an original
• The act of imitating.
• That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
• One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.
• the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
• something copied or derived from an original
• copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
• a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
• an act of imitating a person's speech or mannerisms, especially for comic effect
ADJECTIVE:
• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
• made to look like a material of superior quality
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or instance of imitating

Words related to IMITATION

counterfeit16 imitant9 imitations12

Words that contain IMITATION

imitations12 limitation12 imitational13 limitations13 delimitation15 illimitation14 limitational14 delimitations16 illimitations15

How to use IMITATION in a sentence

• This bird is supposed to possess considerable power of musical imitation.
• The guest, however, had provided himself against such a contingency with a perfect imitation of the coveted jewel.
• Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates, and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
• The first day it was by no means a bad imitation of a real pond, except for the want of a bed of mud.
• The imitation of the motion of the sea is admirable.
• But the accounts from our country give me to believe, that we are not in a condition to hope for the imitation of any thing good.
• The sugar cane mill was a poor imitation of a machine the Indians had seen among the whites.
• The imitation of the god Neptune when coming out of the fore chains over the bow, missed his footing and fell into the sea.
• Eve reluctantly took out two louis, the only coins in her imitation gold bag.
• Leaden shot dropped into a large tin pan will produce a good imitation.
• They tell me the bar of that imitation saloon is away over there on that platform, and they say the bottles are all full of tea.
• The imitation of the scriptural stile produces, in some passages of these works, an effect not unlike what we feel in reading the beautiful book of Ruth.
• We have in both cases left the idea of mere imitation of Nature, and have entered on Art.
• The sick and feeble take gladly these imitation crumbs cast from the full table of the strong.
• Must we not say art is imitation of nature? The drama can show us on the stage a true imitation of real life.

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