impersonation

Definition von impersonation im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: The act whereby one principal assumes the identity and privileges of; pretending to be another person; A circumstance that occurs when Windows NT or Windows 2000 allows one process to take on the security attributes of another; An act whereby one entity assumes the identity and privileges of another entity without restrictions and without any indication visible to the recipients of the impersonator's calls that delegation has taken place Impersonation is a case of simple delegation; imitating the mannerisms of another person; alternative form of impersonification; A technique by which one process can take on the security attributes of another process, as when a server process impersonates a client process to complete a task involving objects to which the server does not normally have access; Occurs when an entity pretends to be someone or something it is not; In Windows NT, the capability of a thread in one process to assume the security identity of another process Impersonation is employed by a named pipe to acquire and use the security ID of the service requester; {i} personification, act of posing as someone else, act of assuming the character of another person; Occurs when and entity pretends to be someone or something it is not; Transmission of a delegation initiator's identity in a manner than does not preserve the identities of participants in the call chain; The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form; a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
impersonate: To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of
The conman managed to impersonate several executives.
impersonate: To manifest in corporeal form, or in one's own person or body
impersonate: to appear or act in the character of
An impersonation: impression
impersonate: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
impersonate: To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being
impersonate: To manifest in corporeal form, or in ones own person or body
impersonate: To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth
impersonate: represent another person with comic intentions
impersonate: assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
impersonate: {f} pose as someone else, assume the character of another person; imitate the voice or appearance of someone else (politicians, actors, etc.)
impersonate: represent another person with comic intentions assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
impersonate: If someone impersonates a person, they pretend to be that person, either to deceive people or to make people laugh. He was returned to prison in 1977 for impersonating a police officer + impersonation impersonations im·per·sona·tion She did impersonations of his teachers
impersonate: To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify
impersonations: plural of impersonation