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Definition: Mimic |
MimicAdjective1. Constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison. Noun1. Someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress). Verb1. Imitate (a person, a manner, etc.), esp. for satirical effect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mimic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MIMIC |
Occupations | Entertains by impersonating another person, or type of person, or animal, or some inanimate object, usually by copying mannerisms, form, expression, dress, voice, or sound of character or thing impersonated. May be designated according to character impersonated as Animal Impersonator (amuse. & rec.); Female Impersonator (amuse. & rec.); Male Impersonator (amuse. & rec.). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A mimic is any species that has evolved to appear similar to another successful species in order to dupe predators into avoiding the mimic.There are two types of mimics:
For example, the Aegeria moth is a Batesian mimic of the yellow jacket wasp, because it resembles the wasp, but is not capable of stinging. A predator who would thus avoid the wasp would similarly avoid the Aegeria.
- Batesian mimics, where the mimic resembles the successful species but does not share the attribute that makes the successful species distasteful to predators.
- Mullerian mimics, where the mimic resembles the successful species and shares the distasteful attribute.
On the other hand, a honeybee is a Mullerian mimic of the wasp, since both share similar appearance and coloring, and both are capable of stinging.
See also: predator
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mimic."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MIMIC | English | Moderately indebted middle-income country | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MimicSynonyms: mimicker (n), mime (v), mock (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence or want of Intellect | Verb: mimic, ape (imitate); respond instinctively. |
Imitation | Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque. |
Adjective: imitated; Verb: mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on. | |
Representation | Personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play; (drama); mimic; (imitate); hold the mirror up to nature. |
The Drama | Verb: act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate; mimic; (imitate); enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage"; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Allow me, I'm a bit of a famous mimic in my own small way you know (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood) | |
Lyrics | Mimic old tv shows and play those childish games (Girl Next Door; performing artist: Musiq Soulchild) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mike the Mimic (1967) | |
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| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | STAN, short for "standard man," is able to talk, breathe, blink its eyes, and mimic a large number of other human actions. By displaying any number of "casualty symptoms," STAN will provide valuable training for Air Force nurses as par. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hare | Artifice is weak; it is the work of mere man, in the imbecility and self distrust of his mimic understanding. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms may mimic those of liver cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. (references) | |
The resulting fullness and shortness of breath may mimic a heart attack. (references) | ||
Lyme disease may be difficult to diagnose because many of its symptoms mimic those of other disorders. (references) | ||
Economic History | Portugal | As Portugal catches its EU partners, it will continue to mimic if not outperform EU trends. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears. The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied, "That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort |
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| "Mimic" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Mimic" is used about 231 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 54.55% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 30.3% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.15% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Total | 100.00% | 231 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mimic": mimic beetle. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mimic | 118 | gambit mimic | 3 |
mimic octopus | 37 | the mimic man | 3 |
mimic turn | 17 | boron mimic steroid | 3 |
mimic 2 | 12 | lipsinc mimic | 3 |
mimic movie | 6 | mimic panel | 3 |
hormone mimic | 6 | daz mimic | 2 |
audition mimic | 6 | mimic pro | 2 |
lupus mimic | 5 | mimic octopus picture | 2 |
female mimic | 5 | mimic tang | 2 |
cause interaction mimic often other treatable | 4 | calvin mimic rankin | 2 |
mimic poser | 4 | 2.0 mimic | 2 |
mimic mosaic panel | 4 | diagram mimic | 2 |
2 audition mimic | 3 | download mimic | 2 |
man mimic x | 3 | abuse child condition mimic that | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mimic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i natyrshëm, imitues (burlesque, imitative, imitator, impersonator, mimetic, simulator), imitoj (ape, copy, echo, follow suit, forge, imitate, mock), imitator. (various references) | |
Arabic | ممثل في ميم, مقلد (counterfeiter, forger, imitative, imitator, impersonator), محاكي, قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mock, parrot, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), حاكى بسخرية (mock, spoof), حاكى (burlesque, copy, emulate, imitate, pattern, simulate, take off), سخر (befool, chip, debunk, deride, fleer, guy, jape, jeer, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mock, monkey, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit), الممثل في الميم, المقلد (copyist, echo, snob), المحاكي (echo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | напълно наподобявам, мимически (mimetic), мимик, престорен (affected, bogus, factitious, feigned, phoney, pretended, put on, sham, simulated, synthetic), подражателен (emulative, imitative), подражавам на (pattern), пародирам (burlesque, parody), имитатор (counterfeiter, imitator, simulator, take off), имитирам (affect, ape, imitate, send up, simulate), изкуствен (affected, artificial, factitious, false, imitation, man-made, pinchbeck, theatrical, unnatural, unreal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 仿 物. (various references) | |
Czech | mimický, napodobit (copy, imitate, re echo, simulate), karikovat (caricature, parody), imitovat (imitate, impersonate), imitátor (imitator, impersonator), šašek (antics, clown, fool, jester, merry andrew, squirt, zany). (various references) | |
Danish | moderat gældsplaget mellemindkomstland (moderately indebted middle-income country). (various references) | |
Dutch | land met gemiddelde inkomsten en met gemiddelde schuldenlast (moderately indebted middle-income country). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسخرگی کردن (Buffoon, Clown), تقلیدکردن (Assume, Imitate, Pattern, Simulate), دست انداختن تقلیدی . (various references) | |
Finnish | matkia (imitate), kohtuullisesti velkaantunut tai keskituloinen maa (moderately indebted middle-income country), jäljittelijä (imitator), jäljitellä (ape, copy, imitate). (various references) | |
French | mimer (mime), singer, singe, pays revenus moyens modérément endetté (Moderately indebted middle-income country), pays revenu intermédiaire modérément endetté (moderately indebted middle-income country), parodier, imiter, imitateur, Extraction d'informations commerciales sur Internet (Mining the Internet for Marketing Intelligence). (various references) | |
German | mimisch, Mimik (mime (niet: mimicry), mimic art). (various references) | |
Greek | μιμικύσ, μιμούμαι (ape, echo, emulate, follow suit, imitate, mime, monkey), μίμοσ (mime, mummer), διακωμωδώ (mock, travesty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחק" (imitator, impersonator, mimetic), לחקות (copy, counterfeit, emulate, imitate, impersonate, mime, pastiche, simulate), חקין (imitator, impersonator, mime). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utánzó (counterfeiter, imitative, imitator, impersonator, mimetic, mocker, unoriginal), mesterkélt (affected, artful, artificial, compt, constrained, dandified, factitious, finicking, mannered, meretricious, namby-pamby, precious, prim, sophisticated, stiff, theatrical, unconstrained). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menirukan (simulate), keajukan (imitate, mock@, parrot). (various references) | |
Italian | mimetico (mimetic), mimare (mime), simulato (ostensible, sham, spurious), simulare (affect, feign, malinger, pretend, sham, simulate), paese a livello di reddito medio,moderatamente indebitato (moderately indebted middle-income country), imitatore (imitator), imitato (counterfeit, false, mock, unlifelike), imitativo (imitative), imitare (ape, copy, follow, forge, imitate, mock), estrazione di dati commerciali su Internet (Mining the Internet for Marketing Intelligence). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ミドル級 (10^-3, aerogramme, communications within a small range, middleweight class, Mila Sohon, militarism, militarist, military look, milli-, millibar, milligram, millimeter, million, million seller, millionaire, millisecond, mi-mollet, mimosa, mineral, mineral water, Minerva, minestrone, mini, mini component, mini computer, mini floppy disk, mini size, mini theater, miniature, miniature car, minibuffer, minicar, minicomputer, mini-computer, minicycle, mini-disk, minifacsimile, minim, minimalist program, minimum, minimum access, minion, minipill, mini-skirt, ministate, Minnesota, Minolta, minute steak, miracle, mirage, mirror, mirror ball, mirror site, monitor, Muenchen, Muller, Munich, museum, music, music tape, music therapy, musical, musical comedy, musical play, musical show, musician, mutant, mute, Myanmar), 模 (imitation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ミミック , もぞう (counterfeit, imitation). (various references) | |
Korean | 모방자 (imitator). (various references) | |
Manx | arrish (imitate, imitation, impersonation, jeer, mockery, parody, take off, take off mimic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imicmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mímico (mimetic, mimicker), simulador (pretender, simulator), parodiador, imitador (ape, apish, copier, imitative, imitator, impersonator, impostor). (various references) | |
Romanian | mimic, mima (imitate, mime, pantomime), maimuţãri (ape, imitate, mock), simulat (assumed, feigned, feint, seeming), parodia (burlesque, mock, parody, travesty), imitator (ape, imitator), imitativ (artful, emulative), imita (ape, copy, counterfeit, echo, follow, forge, go after, imitate, parody, pattern after, simulate). (various references) | |
Russian | ненастоящий (seeming, unreal), мимический актер (pantomime), подражательный (mimetic), передразнивать (monkey), имитатор (copyist, imitator, masquerader, simulator), имитировать имитатор. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mimički, mimičar (mime), podražavati (imitate, mime), imitirati (ape, emulate, imitate). (various references) | |
Spanish | imitador (faker, imitator, impersonator). (various references) | |
Swedish | härma (ape, imitate), apa efter (ape). (various references) | |
Thai | นักล้อเลียน, ล้อเลียน (mock at, rally), ซึ่งล้อเลียน (mimetic). (various references) | |
Turkish | taklitçi (affected, ape, copycat, copyist, forger, imitator, impersonator, mime), taklit etmek (ape, copy, copycat, counterfeit, do an impression of smb., echo, fake, follow suit, hit off, imitate, impersonate, mime, mock, simulate, take a leaf out of one's book, take an example by), taklit eden (imitative, mimetic), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), taklidini yapmak (fudge, imitate, parody, simulate, take off), pandomimaya değin, benzemek (appear, approach, approximate, be similar, bear resemblance to, compare, correspond, dovetail, Favor, favour, have an air of, have resemblance to, look alike, look like, match, promise, remind, remind of, resemble, resemble smb. in looks, seem, take after, take on, throw back). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цяkьnmek (imitate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | імітувати (counterfeit, hit off, imitate, mime, model oneself on, simulate), імітатор (copyist, counterfeiter, imitator, mimicker), несправжній (pasty, unreal), наслідувач (copier, imitator, mimicker), наслідувальний (emulative, imitative, mimetic, slavish), мімічний актор (mimicker), підробляти (adulterate, counterfeit, fake, falsify, feign, forge, imitate, tamper), передражнювати (imitate, mock, monkey). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bắt chước (imitative, mock, sequacious). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwatwar (mock, mockery), dynwaredwr (imitator), dynwared (ape, imitate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | mimikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | imitando, imitandum, imitans, imitantes, imitantur, imitari, imitaris, imitata, imitatur, imitatus, imiteris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mimic": mimical, mimicked, mimicker, mimickers, mimicking, mimicries, mimicry, mimics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mimic": pantomimic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mimic": semimicro. (additional references) | |
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"Mimic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gimic, imac, limic, maimi, Mamiko, Mamuk, mapic, Mcmecca, mcmlii, Meinich, memc, Memec, memic, Memlinc, Meymac, Miemie, mihi, mijic, Mimar, Mimeche, mimi, mimick, Mimir, mimit, mimmi, mimmik, Minack, minic, minix, Minqi, Minyip, Mipmip, miqi, Miric, misic, Mixmag, Moimoi, momi, Momim, momji, monic, mumi, Myrmec, nemica, Nimach, simic, Tmimi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mimic" (pronounced mi"mik) |
| 4 | -i" m i k | bulimic, gimmick, patronymic. |
| 3 | -m i k | academic, aerodynamic, anemic, atomic, autonomic, cataclysmic, ceramic, comic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, diatomic, dynamic, economic, electrodynamic, endemic, endothermic, epidemic, ergonomic, exothermic, formic, gastronomic, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, monatomic, nonacademic, noneconomic, ophthalmic, organismic, pandemic, panoramic, photodynamic, polemic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, socioeconomic, subatomic, systemic, tragicomic, uneconomic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-m-m" | |
-2 letters: mim. | |
-3 letters: mi, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-m-m" | |
+1 letter: mimics. | |
+2 letters: gimmick, miasmic, mimetic, mimical, mimicry, minicam. | |
+3 letters: dilemmic, gimmicks, gimmicky, mimicked, mimicker, minicamp, minicams, misclaim. | |
+4 letters: americium, ammonitic, chimerism, commixing, cymbidium, gimmicked, gimmickry, immediacy, imminence, imminency, miasmatic, microfilm, micromini, mimickers, mimicking, mimicries, minicamps, misclaims, mitomycin, mosaicism, mysticism, semimicro. | |
+5 letters: americiums, chimaerism, chimerisms, commission, committing, cymbidiums, dilemmatic, embolismic, empiricism, gimmicking, imminences, immiscible, immittance, melismatic, microfilms, microimage, microminis, microprism, microseism, miracidium, misclaimed, mitomycins, mosaicisms, mysticisms, nonmimetic, numismatic, pantomimic, ungimmicky. | |
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