[ UK /mˈɪmɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪmɪk/ ]
VERB
  1. imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect
    The actor mimicked the President very accurately
ADJECTIVE
  1. constituting an imitation
    the mimic warfare of the opera stage
NOUN
  1. someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
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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.
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