Definition of "mimic"

mimic

/ˈmɪm.ɪk/

verb
third-person singular simple present mimics, present participle mimicking, simple past and past participle mimicked
1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
  Quotations
  An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
  2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
2. (biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
noun
plural mimics
1. A person who practices mimicry; especially:
  1. A mime.
  2. A comic who does impressions.
2. An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
3. An imitation.
  Quotations
  Jess jumped slightly at hearing Tillyʼs extremely accurate mimic of her voice.
  2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 190
adjective
not comparable
1. Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  Quotations
  I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish and mimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare […].
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
  Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
  1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  And there, with fingers interwoven, both handsPressed closely palm to palm and to his mouthUplifted, he, as through an instrument,Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls,That they might answer him.
  1800, William Wordsworth, There was a Boy
2. Mock, pretended.
3. (mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

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