(Of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound.
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Examples for "imitative "
Examples for "imitative "
1 There are two great schools of art; the imitative and the imaginative.
2 The sentiment of the white village was overpowering among the imitative negroes.
3 The imitative arts do not exist, or are in their lowest state.
4 Their suicide attempts appear in the spirit of imitative or experimental play.
5 Words in their first formation were doubtless constituted by their imitative power.
1 THE French word doucement has an onomatopoeic sensuality that is entirely absent from any English synonym.
2 Historical note: There are a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating about the origin of this term.
3 And he would have chosen it instinctively - for onomatopoeic reasons-becauseit hums and drones and murmurs dreamily.
4 Note some of the most effective onomatopoeic passages.
5 Of course, calling it a vaguely onomatopoeic Smooff makes everything else seem like a bastion of sensible, mature branding.
1 However, in category III, all tumors were detected as low - echoic by B-mode ultrasonography.
2 One tumor showed a hyper - echoic pattern which grew very rapidly.
3 The shadow felt Jedi Masters stride the vast echoic emptiness of the vaulted halls outside.
4 It is an echoic city, filled with shadows.
5 Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) examination showed an encapsulated cystic lesion with relatively homogenous and highly echoic contents.
1 Note the onomatopoetic effect of the rhythm.
2 Notice for example the onomatopoetic effect in 13, 7 and 8:
3 A crude translation of the words, lacking entirely the onomatopoetic quality of the original goes something like this:
4 SIRRT, an onomatopoetic word coined by the poet to imitate the sound of the scythe cutting through the grain.
5 Its name, like that of the minminzemi, is onomatopoetic ; but in Izumo the sounds of its chant are given thus:
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