FromLatinmīmicus, fromAncient Greekμῑμικός(mīmikós,“belonging to mimes”), fromμῖμος(mîmos,“imitator, actor”); seemime.
mimic (third-person singular simple presentmimics,present participlemimicking,simple past and past participlemimicked)
- (transitive) Toimitate,especially in order toridicule.
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, inThe Economist[1], volume407, number8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devicesmimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- (biology, transitive) To take on theappearance of another, forprotection orcamouflage.
to imitate, especially in order to ridicule
—see alsoimitate- Arabic:please add this translation if you can
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- Azerbaijani:yamsılamaq (az)
- Basque:imitatu
- Bulgarian:подражавам (bg)(podražavam),имитирам (bg)(imitiram)
- Catalan:escarnir (ca),imitar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:模仿 (zh)(Mófǎng)
- Czech:imitovat
- Esperanto:imiti,imitaĉi(to ridicule)
- Finnish:imitoida (fi),matkia (fi)
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:nachahmen (de),nachäffen (de)
- Hebrew:חיקה (he) m(khiká)
- Hungarian:utánoz (hu)
- Icelandic:herma eftir
- Japanese:please add this translation if you can
- Khmer:ត្រាប់ (km)(trap)
- Korean:please add this translation if you can
- Latin:imitō,imitor,gesticulor
- Latvian:atdarināt
- Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can
- Māori:tāwhai
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- Norwegian:herme etter
- Oromo:akkeessuu
- Polish:przedrzeźniać
- Portuguese:imitar (pt)
- Punjabi:ਸਾਂਗ ਲਾਉਣਾ (pa)(sāṅg lāuṇā)
- Romanian:mima (ro),imita (ro)
- Russian:имити́ровать (ru)(imitírovatʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:oponašati (sh)
- Slovene:posnemati (sl),oponašati
- Spanish:arremedar (es),remedar (es),arrendar (es)
- Swedish:härma (sv),härm-apa
- Thai:เลียน (th)(liian)
- Turkish:taklit etmek (tr),öykünmek (tr)
- Vietnamese:bắt chước (vi),nhại (vi)
- Welsh:dynwared (cy)
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biology: to take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage
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mimic (pluralmimics)
- A person who practicesmimicry; especially:
- Amime.
- Acomic who doesimpressions.
- Synonym:impressionist
- An entity thatmimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; seethe great imitator.
- Animitation.
- (fantasy, roleplaying games) Afictionalmonster able todisguise itself as aninanimate object, commonly atreasure chest, often with the intent ofluringadventurers into atrap.
a person who practices mimicry, or mime
mimic (notcomparable)
- Pertaining tomimicry;imitative.
1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish andmimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare […].
1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Oft, in her absence,mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
1800,William Wordsworth,There was a Boy:And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands
Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth
Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,
Blewmimic hootings to the silent owls,
That they might answer him.
- Mock,pretended.
- (mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
- “mimic”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mimic”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromFrenchmimique.
mimic m orn (feminine singularmimică,masculine pluralmimici,feminine/neuter pluralmimice)
- mimic
