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artificialHer bouquet was made of artificial flowers.
syntheticThe tyres are made with synthetic rubber.
man-madeNylon is a man-made fibre.
fakeHe was selling fake fur jackets.

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imitation
noun
uk /ˌɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌɪm.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
[ C or U ]
an occasion when someone or something imitates another person or thing: 模仿，仿效
in imitation ofTen-year-olds have started wearing lipstick and make-up in imitation of the older girls.10岁的女孩子已经开始模仿年龄大些的女孩涂抹口红和化妆了。
do an imitation ofShe can do a wonderful imitation of a blackbird's song.她能惟妙惟肖地模仿乌鸫的鸣啭。
C2[ C ]
a copy: 仿制品
cheap imitationHis songs are just cheap (= low quality) imitations of Beatles tunes.他的歌只是对甲壳虫乐队曲调的拙劣模仿。

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anti-counterfeiting
anti-piracy
ape
biomimicry
blueprint
emulatively
emulous
emulously
faux
forge
mimetic
photocopiable
photocopy
photostat
photostatic
piracy
transcript
virtualization
warmed-over
Xerox

imitation | American Dictionary

imitation
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɪm·ɪˈteɪ·ʃən/
something copied, or the act of copying:
Freya does a pretty good imitation of her science teacher.
imitation
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌɪm·əˈteɪ·ʃən/
not real but produced as a copy of something real:
[ C ]imitation leather

Examples of imitation

imitation
A reverse analysis of implicit negative evidence : exact, expanded and reduced parental imitations.
Productive words and imitations were analysed in the present paper.
There was also no difference in the percent correct for spontaneous productions (34%) and imitations (32%).
In cases where the child was not responsive even after several prompts, the examiner attempted the elicitation of direct imitations.
All the fully intelligible utterances containing a nonimperative verb that were neither direct imitations nor immediate self-repetitions were included in the analyses.
Not only that, but imitations may be more accurate than elicited words, so style might matter.
Confronted by their state-created imitations, the bashingantahe lost a great deal of their power.
By the eighteenth century birdsong imitations and percussive sound effects were occasionally incorporated.
Data were ordered so that the coded productions of the same noun were grouped together and imitations were excluded from analysis.
There is no clear distinction between imitated and constructed utterances ; even if a child produces alternative structures, both could be imitations.
Such literal imitations may well anatomise poetry, but they have the opposite effect on drama: they help to shape and focus it.
Postcodes were used on the main line to mark utterances that were incomplete, routines, imitations or repetitions.
Content words were scored as accurate imitations if they matched the target exactly or deviated from it by a single phoneme.
The proportion of successful imitations for each constituent was the dependent variable.
Structuring the movements of the teacher in movement-transitions allows online imitations and learning of the imitated sequences.
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