What is "imitates"

Usage examples of "imitates".

At present, it is sufficient to mention that Plato determined the final good to be to live according to virtue, and affirmed that he only can attain to virtue who knows and imitates God,-which knowledge and imitation are the only cause of blessedness.

I’m going to bend it just enough so that it imitates the action of a cut-plug herring.

It’s made in a furnace that imitates the conditions that create natural rubies.

But now he imitates Jim Cole's curled lip and Walter's words, says perjury was about as far as he aimed to go.