[
US
/ˈmaɪm/
]
NOUN
- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
- a performance using gestures and body movements without words
VERB
-
imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect
The actor mimicked the President very accurately -
act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only
The acting students mimed eating an apple
How To Use mime In A Sentence
- And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
- Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book.
- She was certainly generous and open to letting people use the mimeo and the space.
- Knowing the innate power of the press, he bought a mimeograph machine.
- She frowned and stamped her feet to portray anger, eg in a mime.
- At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
- So the second half was a pantomime, all fun and frolics and not very serious at all. Times, Sunday Times
- With a penetrable fourth wall, a spot of audience participation and plenty of gleeful nonsense, this is pantomime in all but dame.
- It was reminiscent of the television commercial which shows a cheating singer being chased out of a platteland town when a record he mimes to gets stuck.
- The musical direction she was going in and the mime and dance, it left me pretty cold. Times, Sunday Times