The meaning of Mimic

noun

A large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons.

Usage examples:

Mother apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans - dote on their babies.

verb

Imitate (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way.

Usage examples:

New architecture can respect the old without aping its style

noun

An absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.

Usage examples:

A novel which is a burlesque of the literary life

verb

Parody or imitate in an absurd or comically exaggerated way.

Usage examples:

A mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of restoration heroic drama

noun

A type of writing or acting that tries to make something serious seem stupid and funny

Usage examples:

The dance scene is in part a burlesque of bollywood films., the political burlesques are not very h…

noun

A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

Usage examples:

A crude caricature of the prime minister

verb

Make or give a caricature of.

Usage examples:

He was famous enough to be caricatured by private eye

noun

A drawing or a written or spoken description that makes part of someone's appearance or character more noticeable than it really is, or the skill of doing this

Usage examples:

[ c ] i saw a wonderful caricature of the president in the newspaper., it’s so easy to caricature p…

noun

A person who creates caricatures (= humorous drawings or descriptions that make someone's most noticeable features even more noticeable)

Usage examples:

A fine caricaturist, he prefers to work in acrylics., he worked as a caricaturist and opened a stud…

noun

A machine that makes exact copies of something, especially documents, video or audio recordings, or software.

Usage examples:

Document encryption at the copier helps safeguard confidential information before it is transmitted…

noun

A machine to make copies of pages with printing, writing, or drawing on them; a photocopier

noun

A photocopier

Usage examples:

The location of the office copier needs careful thought., printer and copier sales and service

noun

A thing made to be similar or identical to another.

Usage examples:

The problem is telling which is the original document and which the copy

verb

Make a similar or identical version of; reproduce.

Usage examples:

Each form had to be copied and sent to a different department

verb

To produce something that is exactly like another thing, or to do something meant to be like someone or something else

Usage examples:

The design was copied from a 19th-century wallpaper., he copied the file onto a diskette., she writ…

noun

(especially in children's use) a person who copies another's behaviour, dress, or ideas.

Usage examples:

All writers are copycats

adjective

Done to copy someone or something

adjective

Made or done in exactly the same way as something else

Usage examples:

Cheap copycat products, sales of the product have fallen by 42% since copycat versions were launche…

noun

A person who makes copies, especially of handwritten documents or music.

Usage examples:

The end of the first movement is in the hand of a copyist

verb

Perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified).

Usage examples:

Very little work has been done in this field

noun

Used before a verb (except be, can, may, ought, shall, will ) in questions and negative statements.

Usage examples:

Do you have any pets?

noun

Variant spelling of doh1.

noun

A less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher.

Usage examples:

The humdrum compositions of some of beethoven's epigones

verb

Take or follow as a model.

Usage examples:

His style was imitated by many other writers

verb

Reproduce someone's behavior or looks

verb

To copy someone’s speech or behavior, or to copy something as a model

Usage examples:

My four-year-old daughter is always trying to imitate her older sister., he imitated her accent per…

noun

The action of using someone or something as a model.

Usage examples:

A child learns to speak by imitation

noun

Something copied, or the act of copying

Usage examples:

Freya does a pretty good imitation of her science teacher., [ c ] imitation leather

adjective

Copying or following a model or example.

Usage examples:

The derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats

adjective

Copying someone or something

Usage examples:

All these magazines are imitative of each other., he's an imitative artist, with very little origin…

noun

Someone who copies the behaviour or actions of another.

Usage examples:

The show's success has sparked off many imitators

noun

A person who copies someone or something that they think is good

Usage examples:

The difference between ms mcarthur and her countless imitators is the elegance of her writing.

verb

Pretend to be (another person) for entertainment or fraud.

Usage examples:

It's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer

verb

To intentionally copy another person’s speech, appearance, or behavior

Usage examples:

To impersonate a movie star, he was charged with impersonating a police officer.

noun

A person who pretends to be someone else for entertainment or fraud.

Usage examples:

A well-known elvis impersonator

noun

Someone who impersonates another person

Usage examples:

An elvis impersonator

noun

A painter, writer, or composer who is an exponent of impressionism.

Usage examples:

Under the influence of edgar degas and the other impressionists the artist mary cassatt changed her…

adjective

Relating to impressionism or its exponents.

Usage examples:

An impressionist painting

noun

An entertainer who copies the manner and speech of famous people in order to make people laugh

Usage examples:

Monet is one of the great impressionists., impressionist paintings, an impressionist painter/style

verb

Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.

Usage examples:

The actor was lampooned by the press

noun

A speech or text lampooning someone or something.

Usage examples:

The magazine fired at god, royalty, and politicians, using cartoons and lampoons

noun

A piece of writing, a drawing, etc. that criticizes a famous person or a public organization in a humorous way, allowing their or its bad qualities to be seen and making them or it seem stupid

Usage examples:

The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons., many celebrities are lampooned on this…

noun

A person who publicly criticizes someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.

Usage examples:

A lampooner of new social movements

idiom

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

noun

The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.

Usage examples:

She's living in a world of make-believe

adjective

Imitating something real.

Usage examples:

He was firing a make-believe gun at the spy planes

adjective

Relating to, constituting, or habitually practising mimesis.

Usage examples:

Mimetic patterns in butterflies

adjective

Representing or imitating something, especially in art

Usage examples:

Art is a mimetic representation of reality.

noun

A person who imitates someone or their actions or words, especially in order to entertain or ridicule.

Usage examples:

As a mimicker of voices i am unrivalled

verb

Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.

Usage examples:

Opposition mps mocked the government's decision

adjective

Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.

Usage examples:

A mock-georgian red brick house

noun

Make a replica or imitation of something.

noun

A small to medium-sized primate that typically has a long tail, most kinds of which live in trees in tropical countries.

Usage examples:

It was a place where you can see wild monkeys living in the trees.

verb

Behave in a silly or playful way.

Usage examples:

I saw them monkeying about by the shop

noun

Any of various long-tailed primates

noun

A person who writes parodies

noun

An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

Usage examples:

The film is a parody of the horror genre

verb

Produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of (a writer, artist, or genre).

Usage examples:

His speciality was parodying schoolgirl fiction

noun

A piece of writing or music that copies the style of a serious piece in a way that is intentionally humorous

Usage examples:

[ c ] brando did a parody of the character he played in "the godfather.", downey started the show b…

verb

Behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.

Usage examples:

I closed my eyes and pretended i was asleep

adjective

Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary.

Usage examples:

The children poured out pretend tea for the dolls

verb

To behave as if something is true when you know that it is not, esp. in order to deceive people or as a game

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] tom pretends to care., [ + (that) clause ] the children pretended (that) they w…

verb

Deride and criticize by means of satire.

Usage examples:

The movie satirized the notion of national superiority

noun

A thing that is not what it is purported to be.

Usage examples:

Our current free health service is a sham

adjective

Bogus; false.

Usage examples:

A clergyman who arranged a sham marriage

verb

Short for pillow sham.

adjective

Manufactured in imitation of some other material.

Usage examples:

A simulated leather handbag

verb

Imitate the appearance or character of.

Usage examples:

Red ochre intended to simulate blood

adjective

Made to look like something else; artificial

Usage examples:

Simulated leather

noun

A humorous imitation of something, typically a film or a particular genre of film, in which its characteristic features are exaggerated for comic effect.

Usage examples:

A robin hood spoof

verb

Imitate (something) while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect.

Usage examples:

It is a movie that spoofs other movies

noun

A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.

Usage examples:

The absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice

verb

Represent in a false, absurd, or distorted way.

Usage examples:

Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays

noun

Something that completely fails to do what it is intended or expected to do, and therefore seems ridiculous

Usage examples:

The police chief called the judge’s ruling a travesty of justice.

adjective

Amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic.

Usage examples:

His zany humour

noun

A zany person.

Usage examples:

We are looking for the zany, the serious, the artistic and ridiculous.