(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.
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.
Inimitable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diego Costa, fit enough to reclaim the position he occupies in inimitable fashion, hassled a defender and nudged at the opposition goalkeeper just because he can’t resist it.
(2) He took his cameras to a school run by Save the Children in Kenya, for homeless boys from Nairobi, for instance, that was set up along the lines of a British public school; the children are shown blowing bugles, marching, reading books including The Inimitable Jeeves and Tom Brown's Schooldays.
(3) The "swazzle" – a device puppeteers use to create Punch's inimitable squawk – has been passed down through five generations of the Codman family.
(4) Tomorrow at 11.15, a wreath commemorating the 200th year of Charles Dickens's birth will be laid at Westminster Abbey – where his bones lie – and, one half expects, the nation will observe two minutes' silence for "the Great Inimitable".
(5) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."
(6) Nigel Farage, complaining in his inimitably “non-racist” way that it’s only a matter of time before a British holidaymaker or lorry driver dies as a result of the Calais migrant crisis, ought to be ashamed to admit that such petty league tables of human mortality lurk in the darkest recesses of his mind.
(7) Watch here This leaves the McBusted lineup slightly lopsided, with Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Harry Judd repping for McFly, and only Matt Willis and James Bourne around to inject some of Busted's inimitable aesthetic.
(8) Mr Dickens, you are still, and always will be, the Inimitable.
(9) 4.42pm BST Heeeerre's The Fiver … … with it's own inimitable take on Summer Transfer Deadline Day 2013 , or as I'm beginning to think of it STDD13 4.39pm BST "Birmingham Mail deadline day tracker have been reporting all day that Villa are looking to sign Libor Kozak from Lazio," emails Dunstan Kesseler.
(10) "He would revise tirelessly and the room could be inundated with papers, gradually to be organised and collated and resulting frequently in a poem appearing complete and written out in his inimitable hand on a large sheet of cardboard to be seen as well as read."
(11) His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
(12) In flooded the parodies - including the inimitable Sir Patrick Stewart holding a tube of wet wipes to his ear.
(13) And then there’s the inimitable Paul Ryan, who reminded us that “freedom is the ability to buy what you want to fit what you need.
(14) This place feels as old as time itself: the Etruscans were here, there is a Roman amphitheatre and the Medici made their inimitable and indelible mark with a fortress, which they converted into a prison.
(15) Shows that follow include a set by the satirical rockers Jonny & The Baptists ; a one man show called Berkoff the Inimitable; and comedy from the sketch quartet Four Screws Loose .
(16) It became famous for Kirsty Young perching on her desk, but Channel 5 News looks set for another kind of revolution with channel owner Richard Desmond wanting to stamp his inimitable mark on its news programmes.
(17) Even for boxing, a sport which, for all its inimitable thrills, still offers up cringeworthy matchups with alarming frequency, this is bad.
(18) Nishville, however, disagreed: There's more variation in a single episode of Blackadder than in all 11 seasons of Frasier … I really struggle to understand where this British complex of inferiority to the Americans comes from, your comedy is not about quantity but highly compressed inimitable quality.
(19) Daft Punk are at No 1 in the album charts with Random Access Memories, thanks in no small part to the lead single Get Lucky – a showcase for the inimitable rhythmic guitar of Chic's Nile Rodgers.
(20) "We were much better than Vitesse but just didn't play well," said van Gaal, flashing his inimitable logic.