noun. The act or an instance of imitating.

noun. Something derived or copied from an original, often in an inferior way.

noun. undefined

noun. Repetition of a phrase or melody often with variations in key, rhythm, and voice.

noun. Repetition of a theme in another voice such that each part continues polyphonously.

adjective. Made to resemble another, usually superior material.

noun. The act of imitating; an imitating or copying.

noun. That which is made or produced by imitating; hence, in general, a likeness or resemblance; a simulated reproduction or representation; more loosely, a likeness or resemblance in general.

noun. Specifically, in music, the process or act of repeating a melodic phrase or theme, either at a different pitch or key from the original, or in a different voice-part, or with some rhythmic or intervallic modification not so great as to destroy the resemblance.

Made in imitation; counterfeit; not genuine; copied: as, imitation stone, lace, gold, etc.

noun. The act of imitating.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.

noun. The act of imitating.

noun. A copy.

noun. something copied or derived from an original

noun. copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else

noun. the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations

noun. a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

adjective. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

"If the imitation is exact, the term _strict imitation_ is applied, but if only approximate, then the term _free imitation_ is used in referring to it."

laws of imitation  

artificial  unreal  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

appearance  appreciation  composition  conception  copy  

accordance  acting  adoption  affected  agent  

canon  imitate