Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being imitated.
- adjective Worthy of imitation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being imitated or copied.
- Worthy of imitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being imitated or copied.
- adjective Worthy of imitation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being imitated or copied.
- adjective Worthy of imitation.
Etymologies
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Examples
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BS&P keeps a closer watch on kidvid, on the notion that what is called imitable behavior needs to be monitored.
Archive 2009-08-01 Steve Perry 2009
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BS&P keeps a closer watch on kidvid, on the notion that what is called imitable behavior needs to be monitored.
Artist's Responsibility Steven Barnes 2009
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If Kolkka's caper was at least inventive, Rooney's clap has already proved imitable.
Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge 2011
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If Kolkka's caper was at least inventive, Rooney's clap has already proved imitable.
Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge 2011
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- Making Anschluss with stupidity, the Alaska Senate candidate told a gathering late last week that the former communist state's approach to border security is imitable.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 19TH, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010
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Will they all, as Shivani suggests, "lean heavily on the easily imitable"?
Who are the most overrated contemporary writers in the world? 2010
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In his prime, he could play brilliantly in an imitable way even, at times, well enough to give himself the illusion of the omnipotence he craved to keep at bay the vulnerability he feared.
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At Johns Hopkins, Gregory Hager, a computer science professor who researches medical devices, is using the da Vinci Surgical System -- the only robot approved by the FDA to help perform minimally invasive surgery -- to deconstruct surgical procedures into measurable components and imitable parts.
Playing doctor: Learning about slips of the knife better on 'patients' than patients Julie Wan 2010
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The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable.
The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) 2010
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The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable.
Anis Shivani: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS) 2010
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