To imitate that economy of effort is from first to last the inventor’s task.
Machines Cannot Directly Imitate Hands: A Task Must be “Coded.
Forty years ago Faber constructed a talking machine of bellows to imitate the lungs, with an artificial throat, larynx, and lips affording a weird and faulty imitation of the voice.
Among the students eager in this advance are the men who examine with the camera how wings of diverse types behave in flight, and then endeavor to imitate the strongest and swiftest of these wings.
Inventors have always gone astray when they have sought to imitate a hand process with anything like precision.
To-day when an inventor seeks to imitate a natural product he does so with a power of analysis, a wealth of new materials, such as his forerunners could not have imagined.
In the first machine to do something mechanically hitherto done by hand, the error is often made of trying to imitate hand-work rigorously.
Cicero's style is plainly Petrarch's ideal, although he is too wise to imitateit slavishly.
Besides these and innumerable others like them, have not all those of our own religion whom we should wish most to imitate devoted their whole lives to literature, and grown old and died in the same pursuit?
Thereupon I gave him the briefest outline of the great events in the life of each of the persons represented, adding such words as might stimulate his courage and his desire to imitate their conduct.
Do notimitate these men who are all promise and no performance; who, as the comic poet has said, know everything and yet know nothing.
No one can compare the Roman's treatise with the Confessions without quickly absolving Petrarch from any attempt consciously or unconsciously to imitate Seneca.
In speaking of his own letters Sidonius says that he has modestly refrained from attempting to imitate Cicero's style, and cites the fate of Titianus, who brought derision upon himself by so doing.
Imitate my zeal, fruitless as it was, and mayest thou, with like ardour, bring thy task to a happier and more joyful issue.
Then I try to imitate it with my fists in A flat, six-eight time as well as I can, but the result is miserable.
I really believe it is far better to imitate such work, than to overstrain the nerves of your audience, who, after all, will at last get accustomed to Cayenne pepper.
This only, indeed, I know of good in nobility: that it shames many a man if he is worse than his ancestors were, and he therefore endeavors with all his power to imitate the manners of some one of the best, and his virtues.
Foote, who so successfully revived the old comedy by exhibiting living characters, had resolved to imitate Johnson on the stage, expecting great profits from his ridicule of so celebrated a man.
Such persons can be regarded only as freaks, and any attempt on the part of others to imitate their example would lead to disaster.
The hysterical subject craves for sympathy, and will imitate all sorts of ailments in order to secure it.
If you wish to imitate the gods, give also to the ungrateful; for the sun rises even on the ungodly and the seas lie open even to the pirate, the wind blows not only in favour of the good, and the rain falls even on the fields of the unjust.
They imitate the father of lies, who quoted Scripture against the Son of God, when he tempted Him.
Then when lightly punched by its trainer, it would, quite naturally, imitate the movements of the boxer, fending off blows and hitting out with its forelegs.
In this the boys imitate as nearly as they can the old hunting down of the bushrangers by the mounted police.
I may be quite wrong in this, but I think that most of the folk-stories coming from the natives are just their attempts to imitate white-man stories, and not original ideas of their own.
But God does not demand of us the impossible, He does not demand of us that we imitate Christ in our own strength.
But any attempt on our part to imitate Christ in our own strength will only result in utter disappointment and despair.
There is nothing more futile that we can possibly attempt than to imitate Christ in the power of our own will.
A dewdrop is rounded by the same laws which shape the planetary spheres or the sun himself; and Christians but half trust Christ if they do not imitate Him.
Whatever may sound impracticable in the injunction to imitate God assumes a more homely and possible shape when it becomes an injunction to follow Jesus.
Not that lace or any other ornamental fabric should imitate exactly the forms of flowers or other natural objects, but that the conventional forms should be beautiful in themselves and clearly traced in the pattern.
Let us endeavour as far as possible to give the student two or even more separate opportunities (with appropriate intervals) of truly hearing any given sound, word, or word-group before calling upon him to imitate the model.
We are trained to imitate strange noises of all sorts, and the phonetician is ready to show us how to make them.
The student to be given ample opportunities, with appropriate intervals, of hearing a sound or combination of sounds, a word, or a group of words before being called upon to imitate what he hears.
The student must be taught, by means of appropriate drills and exercises, to observe and to imitate the system used by the natives.
Now, there are two possible ways of acquiring proficiency in an art; the one consists in applying theory, the other consists in persistent efforts to imitate the successful performances of others.
Exercises in mimicry, by means of which he will become able to imitate and reproduce successfully any word or string of words uttered by the native whose speech serves as model.
I must take my chance that Miss Clavering's children, if ever they inherit, do not imitate the mother.
Dalibard was secretly anxious to discover if she suspected himself of any agency in the detection of the eventful letter; and assured by her manner that no such thought was yet harboured, he thought it best to imitate her own reserve.
Then came his ability to imitate the call of this wild life, sometimes by direct vocalization, or by placing two reeds to the lips so dexterously that the timid fawn is led to his feet.
We seek to recall, to imitate his inflections and gestures.
To imitate beautiful effects in nature, to surprise their expressions, after having observed and established the relation of cause to effect,--this is the end to which the discovery of Delsarte would lead us.
I do watch, but I don't know how to go to work to imitate you; I don't seize the details of your gesture.
To render the voice resonant, we draw the tongue from the teeth and give it a hollow form; then we lower the larynx, and in this way imitate the French horn.
In the arrangement of his effects, he must copy, imitate and compose.
With foamy tusks to seem a bristly boar, Or imitate the lion's angry roar; Or kiss a dragon, or a tiger stare.
All of these are painted and some covered with stone dust to imitate stone, a gratuitous insult to lead which will turn to a delicate silver grey if left to its own devices.
These able pieces of work are not generally known for lead, because, like so many figures and vases, they have been painted and sanded to imitate stone.
He who turns a deaf ear to such warnings, and who absolutely refuses to relinquish his faith in Strauss the classical author, can only be given this last word of advice--to imitate his hero.
I want a man who can exactly imitate a handwriting, so that, if I send you a specimen of the hand I want copied, and the words of a letter to be written in that handwriting, the letter can be executed so that no one will know the difference.
The attempts which have been made to improve and to imitate this book are not to be numbered.
Pocquelin was the manager and the modeller, for under his studious eye this company were induced to imitate Nature with the simplicity the poet himself wrote.
To imitate and to rival the Italians and the French formed their devotion.
Why," said he to the Rhinoceros, "did you not imitate my forethought and prudence, and take some heed to the morrow?
I imitate and follow and observe the statutes of king Wan, Seeking daily to secure the tranquillity of the kingdom.
Yin-shang, It is not Heaven that flushes your face with spirits, So that you follow what is evil and imitate it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imitate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
