repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction;
mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint.
mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation;
representation &c 554; semblance; copy &c 21; assimilation.
paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature &c 21.
plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c (falsehood) 544; celluloid.
imitator, echo, cuckoo†, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime;
copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.
V. imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo,
reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.
mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act
&c (drama) 599; represent &c 554; counterfeit, parody, travesty,
caricature, lampoon, burlesque.
follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the
footsteps of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit,
follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of
another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after;
emulate.
Adj. imitated &c v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on.
paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping,
apish, mimicking.
Adv. literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim [Lat.], sic, totidem
verbis [Lat.], word for word, mot a mot [Fr.]; exactly, precisely.
Phr. like master like man; like - but oh! how different! [Wordsworth];
genius borrows nobly [Emerson]; pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks
[A.
Coles]; quotation confesses inferiority [Emerson]; Imitation is
the sincerest form of flattery.