What's the difference between copycat and imitate?

Copycat


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The CIA sent a cable to its foreign stations warning of possible copycat incidents.
  • (2) Pegida marches and copycat events in other cities attracted thousands of people, but they were vastly outnumbered by tens of thousands of counter-demonstrators insisting Germany is a multicultural country that welcomes immigrants.
  • (3) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
  • (4) But like BBC1’s The Voice - since lost to ITV - one person’s distinctiveness is another person’s copycat.
  • (5) The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.
  • (6) She said the measures in SB2305, the copycat bill similar to the one being challenged by the CRR in Mississippi , were unnecessary, because the RRWC had a safety record above the national average.
  • (7) His tips include avoiding copycat shows, keeping it authentic, getting the casting right with lots of personalities and heroes, and incorporating emotion.
  • (8) The Norway attacks have raised concerns copycat operations may take place in Europe .
  • (9) The primary goal here is to reassert the rule of law and try to avoid copycat occupations,” said David Hayes, a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School and former deputy secretary of the US Department of the Interior.
  • (10) "Most of those who were involved were arrested and it stopped any further copycat rioting."
  • (11) Danish intelligence services have suggested the fatal Copenhagen shooting of a film-maker at a freedom-of-speech debate and a Jewish security guard at a synagogue may have been a copycat of last month’s Paris attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
  • (12) However, this attack is later revealed to be no copycat operation and one that had been months and probably years in the planning.
  • (13) · Meanwhile, don't respond too harshly if coverage of the election, or of anything else for that matter, is a bit sparse in the New York Times, since the entire staff at the paper's head office in Manhattan seem to have been completely distracted from their work by two stuntmen climbing their new skyscraper - the famous French "urban climber" Alain Robert, and a copycat.
  • (14) "My criticism of the Met police is the message that this sent out and it was the fundamental cause of copycat violence in a number of other cities."
  • (15) Denmark’s spy chief, Jens Madsen, said the gunman – who was known to police because of past violence, gang-related activities and possession of weapons – had perhaps been trying to stage a copycat attack of the three days of bloody mayhem in Paris last month, which began with a massacre of cartoonists and others at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended in a murderous siege at a kosher supermarket.
  • (16) The Global Times newspaper described the incidents as "plotted copycats" of the riots in Lhasa in March 2008.
  • (17) "I don't think Bristol really does copycat riots, I think we tend to start the riots.
  • (18) "Years of mass production and copycat trends have created a huge yearning for truly personal style and looks, without the boundaries of supposed perfection."
  • (19) Italians fearful of copycat Chinese imports killing off demand for their prized homegrown delicacies have added another culinary touchstone to the danger list: the chestnut.
  • (20) Officials at the government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said under-reporting of incidents involving female abusers was a concern and warned that "copycat" abusers may attempt to replicate the abuse that took place at Plymouth's Little Ted's nursery, where George worked.

Imitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.
  • (v. t.) To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.
  • (v. t.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (2) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
  • (3) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
  • (4) Joints are originally created by the author as an imitation of TMJ and mandibular ramus.
  • (5) In Rhodotorula, peroxisomes are characterized by the same "bean" configuration and paired arrangement imitating "copulation" as mitocondria.
  • (6) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
  • (7) The heterogeneity was imitated by parallel connection of two papillar muscles with different mechanical properties.
  • (8) Analysis of error patterns shows the least number of errors for the recognition task and greatest number for the spontaneous production task, with imitation holding the intermediate position (R less than I less than P).
  • (9) Neither of these tests was significantly correlated with an ideomotor apraxia test (imitation of movements).
  • (10) This chapter also reviews the social response to AA including early research on AA, the generally favorable response to AA, criticism of AA, and the widespread imitation of AA by other problem area groups.
  • (11) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
  • (12) When imitative prompts and reinforcements were used to teach compound sentence structure, correct use of simple sentences declined and correct use of compound structure increased.
  • (13) A nonverbal boy, enrolled in a special education preschool, was taught to imitate reliably six words in 46 15-minute sessions.
  • (14) Tics are modified by multiple psychological contents (aggressive or sexual impulses, imitation of others) which tend to become independent of their origin.
  • (15) He learned many of the other crucial skills that were either lacking, or absent: the ability to point, and imitate; the habit of commenting on his surroundings; how to divert his energy away from tantrums into productive activity.
  • (16) In contrast to other studies, it was concluded that the sequential therapy does not imitate the usual endometrium alterations of a normal cycle.
  • (17) Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial relations, size comparisons, and gesture imitations through the use of the WISC, an originally devised Language Decoding Test (LDT), and a modified Gesture Imitation Test (GIT).
  • (18) The effects of 8-Br cyclic AMP were not mimicked by cyclic AMP applied extracellularly but were imitated by intracellular injections of cyclic AMP.
  • (19) A previously unreported case of a synovial cyst of a temporo-mandibular joint imitating a parotid tumour is described.
  • (20) It could be imitated by caffeine and blocked by tetracaine and thus was, most likely, initiated by release of calcium.