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mimic English

Meaning mimic meaning

What does mimic mean?
Definitions in simple English

mimic Verb

— To mimic is to copy something very closely. He mimicked the unusual way his friend walked.

mimic Noun

— A mimic is a person who copies others very closely. She was an excellent mimic. — A mimic is a person who acts in a mime. She was the best mimic in the theatre company.

mimic

— adjective constituting an imitation the mimic warfare of the opera stage — Archibald Alison — verb imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect The actor mimicked the President very accurately — noun someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)

Synonyms mimic synonyms

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mimic English » English

imitate copy ape mock mime imitation emulate impersonate imitator take off simulate mimicker mimetic fake tease parody monkey parrot pantomimist mimicry impressionist impersonator imitative echo duplicate deride counterfeit copycat caricature visual travesty sounds simulation reproduce replicate pretender poser play-acting plagiarise pantomist mummery mummer mimesis make fun of make liken to jokes jester intuition intuit

Topics mimic topics

What do people use mimic to talk about?
States Quality Type, kind

Imitate

Conjugation mimic conjugation

How do you conjugate mimic?

mimic · verb

Examples mimic examples

How do I use mimic in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She was trying to mimic Michael Jackson's dance moves.
A parrot can mimic a person's voice.

Movie subtitles

I think it will benefit you more rather then trying to mimic being generous with rotten grain.
We invoke love, call it beg for it, cry for it, try to mimic it. We think that we own it, we lie about it.
Forcing a helpless recruit to mimic a common harlot?
Allow me. I'm a bit of a famous mimic. You know.
The dependant surrendering the autonomy of his own nervous system to that of the object of his dependency, and altering his patterns of electro-chemical discharge to mimic those of his object.
If our dance is mimic again in semi-finals, wwe may forfeit the competition.
And as you know, I'm a gifted mimic.
John is a mimic of uncanny ability.
John is an excellent mimic. Any animal that he has heard.
According to the book, his urge to mimic should return with his health.
It tunes into an individual psyche and adapts to mimic his mental state.
Then it touched my hand and it began to mimic my cellular structure.
They are designed to learn and mimic your neural firing patterns.
Some tanuki decided to work in teams and mimic a single human.
We invoke love, call it beg for it, cry for it, try to mimic it.
And Yoshida's action is above reproach? Forcing helpless recruits to mimic a command harlot?
The way you mimic her behavior is such an ugly parody.
It'll mimic all the symptoms of Beck's bacteria.
He chose the starling for the variety of noises it could make, its ability to mimic, its dual plumage and its sociability.
John is an excellent mimic.
It's not polite to mimic people.
Well, according to the book, his urge to mimic should return with his good health.
Vital signs so slow they mimic death.
They will learn and mimic your neural-firing patterns.
They will find someone else to mimic over coffee in the lounge.
I'm a bit of a famous mimic You know. James Cagney.
I enjoy talk. And as you know, I'm a gifted mimic.
A mimic attaches itself to existing viruses, such as polio, influenza, etcetera. increasing both the toxicity and the reproductive level of the host desease.
I used to mimic her.
They evolved to mimic their only real predator. us.
They can't mimic specific people.
I didn't even know I had the ability to mimic other forms.
By this time, I'd already gotten you to mimic half a dozen simple forms.
It'll just lie there. never realizing it has the ability to mimic other forms. never living up to its potential.

News and current affairs

But what if the EFSF were to mimic Banco del Pacífico in a transparent way, say, by setting a threshold spread level above which it would fund buy-backs of any Greek bond in the market?
Of course, developing countries should not simply mimic developed economies' tax systems.
They regard Hong Kongers' democratic demands as a misguided effort to mimic Western politics, or even as a form of nostalgia for British imperialism.
Israel could then mimic other nuclear-armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.
Consider Moscow, a highly seasoned imitator (though nowhere in the league of St. Petersburg, that baroque Italianate city on the Neva, as an urban mimic).
Motion scaling - which allows the robotic arms to mimic the exact movements of the surgeon's hands, but on a much smaller scale - will enable surgeons to manipulate tissue that is too small for the naked eye to detect.
India tried to mimic the event, with an India-Africa summit in New Delhi in 2008.
China observes that on most security matters, the ESDP will (for now) mimic American security interests, because the EU and US share fundamental values of human rights and democracy.
We could mimic this effect through stratospheric aerosol insertion - essentially launching material like sulfur dioxide or soot into the stratosphere.
Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.
Without an independent judiciary, secure property rights, and a check on corruption, Putin's modernization will mimic Brezhnev's.

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