imitator
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- noun
- /ˈɪmɪˌteɪtər/
- Specialized
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imitador
- He, Sherrod Brown, and Jane Hamsher are standing on dangerously shaky scientific ground, and everyone stands to suffer when one of these poorly tested bio-imitators goes down in flames.
- human imitator
Examples
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When the iPad and its imitators place an ubiquitous web-enabled computer within reach of every potential reader (human story reader, I mean), then who will want to download books?
Blog text (20) -
After several imitators posed as her online in an attempt to deceive fans, Meyer finally just called it quits.
Blog text (20) -
It could be an imitator.
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But from the reporting about the trial, Samsung is the only copycat and Apple is no imitator.
Blog text (12) -
As Bergen points out, "the existence of Al-Qaeda imitators does not prove the obsolescence of the real thing." 72
Academic text (2008) -
Oded Shenkar says, "Apple is itself a consummate imitator," in his book Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge.
Blog text (11) -
But the role models behind this dramatic academic convergence have been the educational models of Europe and the United States, which have attracted both emulators and imitators (hegemonization).
Academic text (1999) -
The second scene involves the capture: John Robie, after a long wait on the rooftop of an elegant palais, catches the burglar-imitator as she is about to fall from the roof and forces her to confess.
Academic text (1990) -
The mean proportions of children in each of the four conditions who preferred the tasks on which they had been imitated were as follows: .67 (model recognition), .70 (imitator recognition), .09 (nonimitator recognition), and .38 (control condition).
Academic text (2002) -
The voice of the AI-powered imitator mimicked the celebrity so accurately that fans were amazed.
Synonyms
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4.2
A digital copy of a real person that can talk or act like them
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9.1
A robot that looks and acts like a real person
A machine made to act like a real person
Antonyms
- Texting
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3.6
A person who makes videos, posts or blogs and shares them online to build an audience
How Convincing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imitator comes from the old Latin verb imitari, meaning 'to copy', and is related to the English word image, meaning 'picture'. So now imitator can also mean a machine or program that makes a copy of a person's voice or style, because it creates a new 'image' of the real person.