mime

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mime

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Possibly from Middle English *mime, from Old English mīma (“a buffoon, jester, mime”), from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”), but more likely re-borrowed in modern times from French mime (“mimic actor”), from the same source.

• IPA^(key): /maɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

mime (countable and uncountable, plural mimes)

1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
   • 1977 April 23, Arlene Silva, “Suzanne Fox's Silent Stories”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     [Silence] demands returning to the self, to innocence and a a portrayal of situations as if all the particulars were completely unknown to the viewer. There are no props but the muscular versatility of the human form. Mime is the one thing that truly proves we can be all things.

2. A pantomime actor.
3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
4. A performer of such a farce.
5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
7. A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.

• pantomime

mime (third-person singular simple present mimes, present participle miming, simple past and past participle mimed)

1. To mimic.
2. (intransitive) To act without words.
3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

   In this game, you're given a word, which you have to mime to the others in the group.

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

• lip-synch

• IPA^(key): /mim/
• Rhymes: -im

From Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos).

mime m (plural mimes)

1. pantomime actor, mime
2. pantomime

• mimer

mime

1. inflection of mimer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• emmi

• Audio:

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mime

1. inflection of mimen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

mime

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Unadapted borrowing from Dutch mime, from French mime, from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos).

mime (plural mime-mime, first-person possessive mimeku, second-person possessive mimemu, third-person possessive mimenya)

1. (drama) mime

• “mime” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

mime

1. Rōmaji transcription of みめ

mīme

1. vocative singular of mīmus

mime

1. inflection of mimar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of mimir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

mime

1. inflection of mimar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of mimir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative