| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain by playing a role |
Synonyms: |
be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge, strut*, take part, tread the boards |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate |
Synonyms: |
act like, ape, burlesque, do, do a take-off, do like, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, fake, follow, follow example, follow suit, go like, illustrate, incarnate, knock off, make like, mimic, mirror, mock, model, parody, parrot, personify, phony, pirate, play a role, prefigure, repeat, sham, simulate, steal, take leaf out of book, take off, travesty, typify |
Antonyms: |
be original |
| Main Entry: | impersonate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend to be another |
Synonyms: |
act, act a part, act like, act out, ape, assume character, ditto*, do, do an impression of, double as, dress as, enact, fake, imitate, make like, masquerade as, mimic, mirror, pass oneself off as, perform, personate, play, play a role, playact, portray, pose as, put on an act, represent, take the part of |
Antonyms: |
be original, differ, oppose, reverse |
| Main Entry: | play-act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act |
Synonyms: |
be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge, strut*, take part, tread the boards |
| Concept: | [Result of imitation.] Copy. |
| Category: | 3. PARTIAL RELATION |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
copy, facsimile, xerox, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, similitude, semblance, cast, tracing, ectype, photo offset, electrotype; imitation; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait (representment); resemblance., duplicate; transcript, transcription; reflex, reflexion, reflection; shadow, echo; recording, scan; chip off the old block; reprint, reproduction; second edition (repetition); rechauffe; apograph, fair copy, revise., parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase., [copy with some differences] derivative, modification, expansion, extension., servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake (deception); pasticcio.
-adjectives
faithful; lifelike (similar); close, conscientious., unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
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Antonyms: |
prototype |
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