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UK
/mˈɪmɪk/
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[ US /ˈmɪmɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪmɪk/ ]
VERB
-
imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect
The actor mimicked the President very accurately
ADJECTIVE
-
constituting an imitation
the mimic warfare of the opera stage
NOUN
- someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
How To Use mimic In A Sentence
- In summary, Dr. Green, after studying and researching this question for over 20 years, it is my firm conviction that aspartame lowers seizure threshold, mimics or exacerbates a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, contributes to the incidence of certain cancers, and because of it's impact on the hypothalamic "appestat" plays a significant role in the world-wide epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Psychiatry Professor informs Hawaii House Health Committee of Dangers of Aspartame, as Medical Professional
- Some of these chemicals may mimic hormones, thereby disrupting the endocrine system.
- The contours show combinations of mimic phenotypes that are attacked by predators with equal probability.
- Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
- In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well
- The hopefuls were asked to mimic people's accents and appearances. The Sun
- Nagesh compèred the show and kept the audience entertained with his mimicry.
- Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales. Darwinism (1889)
- His stunt mimics magician David Blaine's attempt to survive 72 days in a glass box above London but Michael decided he would use the idea to raise cash for charity.
- The company develops software that mimics the human brain in the way that it works.