impersonate

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Copying and copies
anti-counterfeiting
anti-piracy
ape
biomimicry
blueprint
emulatively
emulous
emulously
faux
forge
mimetic
pattern yourself on someone/something
photocopiable
photocopy
photostat
photostatic
transcript
virtualization
warmed-over
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Mocking and taunting
take-off
noun
uk /ˈteɪk.ɒf/ us /ˈteɪk.ɑːf/

take-offnoun (AIRCRAFT)

[ C or U ]
the moment when an aircraft leaves the ground and begins to fly: 起飞;飞起
Night take-offs and landings are banned at this airport.这个机场禁止夜间起降。
 
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Moving upwards
ascend
ascension
ascent
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bristle
clamber
come
come up
heave
levitate
levitation
mount
pop up
pull
rise
scale
scramble
shinny
soar
soaring

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take-offnoun (COPY)

[ C ]
a piece of acting or writing, etc. that copies the way a particular person speaks or behaves, or the way something is done, usually to entertain other people: 模仿
It was the best take-off of the prime minister that I have ever seen.这是我所见过的对首相最惟妙惟肖的模仿。

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take something off | American Dictionary

take something off

phrasal verb with takeverb[ T ]us/teɪk/past tensetookus/tʊk/
to remove or get rid of something:
He took off his shirt and shoes and jumped in the lake.
After the poisoning scare, the product was taken off the market.

take off

phrasal verb with takeverb[ T ]us/teɪk/past tensetookus/tʊk/

(LEAVE)

(of an aircraft) to leave the ground and fly:
The plane took off on time.
infml To take off is also to leave suddenly:
When he saw me coming, he took off in the other direction.

take off

phrasal verb with takeverb[ T ]us/teɪk/past tensetookus/tʊk/

(BECOME POPULAR)

to suddenly become popular or successful:
The new product really took off among teens.

take off something

phrasal verb with takeverb[ T ]us/teɪk/past tensetookus/tʊk/
to use a period of time for a purpose that is different from what a person usually does:
I’ve decided to take next semester off and travel and write.

take off | Business English

take off

phrasal verb with takeverb[ T ]uk /teɪk/ustook | taken
to suddenly start to be successful:
She became an ethical financial adviser ten years ago, just as green investing began to take off.
He taught for years before his writing career took off.
FINANCE
to suddenly increase in value or amount:
The shares took off, climbing more than 130%.
The time to protect your finances from inflation is now, before prices really take off.

take sth off

phrasal verb with takeverb[ T ]uk /teɪk/ustook | taken
WORKPLACE
to have a period of time away from work:
After the business trip she took a few days off.
I am definitely looking forward to taking some time off.
FINANCE
to reduce a price by a particular amount:
Being too near a train track could take thousands off the price of a house.

Examples of take something off

take something off
It demonstrates that public pensions can lead to a take-off from a low growth trap to a higher growth equilibrium.
The constraints on the reaction force (no take-off, no sliding) give also some limits on the initial velocity (or angular momentum).
Aircraft may be unable to land or take-off for several days or occasionally weeks.
They observed that for the same jumping height, different take-off angles would result in different jump distances.
The industrial ' take-off ' did not occur until the 1890s.
We assume there is no take-off and no sliding.
The minimum wind velocities required to allow the take-off of the smallest individuals, of a particular species, may similarly be described.
Common nouns of this type are blackout, break-up, getaway, get-together, hold-up, mix-up, sit-in, and take-off.
What is a more visible turning point in terms of an economic developmental take-off stage?
Any explanation of mechanisation must stress the importance of the introduction, in 1930, of the small combine-harvester operated by power take-off from an all-purpose tractor.
The second is the result that initially identical economies might experience take-off at very different times.
Slowly some kind of i consensus between scientists and the military began to emerge, which made possible a modest but steady "take-off" toward nuclear development.
This actuator (servomotor with gear reducers) rotated the leg to the desired angle at touchdown and take-off events.
Local production, regional distribution and national interconnection became simultaneously the components of energy take-off.
At surgery, the aneurysm was found to extend from the anterior wall of the pulmonary trunk to the take-off of the left pulmonary artery.
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