2022-02-26
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – E - emulate & imitate
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง emulate -verb – “EM-yuh-leyt: - adj. = “-lit”
ออกเสียง imitate = “IM-i-teyt”
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:
emulate & imitate
People generally know what “imitate” means,
but they sometimes don't understand that “emulate”
is a more specialized word with a purely positive function,
meaning to try to equal or match.
Thus if you try to climb the same mountain your big brother did,
you're emulating him;
but if you copy his habit of sticking peas up his nose,
you're just imitating him.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Did you know?
If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery,
then past speakers of English clearly had a great admiration
for the Latin language.
The verb emulate joined the ranks of Latin-derived English terms
in the 16th century.
It comes from aemulus, a Latin term for "rivaling" or "envious."
Two related adjectives—emulate and emulous
—appeared within a half-century of the verb emulate.
Both mean "striving to emulate;
marked by a desire to imitate or rival" or sometimes "jealous,"
but emulous is rare these days and the adjective emulate is obsolete.
The latter did have a brief moment of glory, however,
when William Shakespeare used it in Hamlet:
"Our last king,
Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
Dar'd to the combat...."
Dictionary.com:
SYNONYM STUDY FOR IMITATE
Imitate, copy, duplicate, reproduce
all mean to follow or try to follow an example or pattern.
Imitate is the general word for the idea:
to imitate someone's handwriting, behavior.
To copy is to make a fairly exact imitation of an original creation:
to copy a sentence, a dress, a picture.
To duplicate is to produce something that exactly resembles or correspondsto something else;
both may be originals:
to duplicate the terms of two contracts.
To reproduce is to make a likeness or reconstruction of an original:
to reproduce a 16th-century theater.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for imitate
Copy, Imitate, Mimic, Ape, Mock
mean to make something so that it resembles an existing thing.
Copysuggests duplicating an original as nearly as possible.
copied the painting and sold the fake as an original
Imitate suggests following a model or a pattern but may allow for some variation.
imitate a poet's style
Mimicimplies a close copying (as of voice or mannerism)
often for fun, ridicule, or lifelike imitation.
pupils mimicking their teacher
Ape may suggest presumptuous, unoriginal, or inept imitating of a superior original.
American fashion designers aped their European colleagues
Mockusually implies imitation with derision.
mocking a vain man's pompous manner
History and Etymology for imitate
borrowed from Latin imitātus, past participle of imitārī
"to follow as a pattern, copy," frequentative derivative of a presumed verb *imā- "make a copy,"
perhaps going back to Indo-European *h2im-,
whence also Hittite hima-, himma- "substitute, replica, toy"
