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mimic

verb
/ˈmɪm.ɪk/

Etymology

From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.

  1. derived from μῑμικός — “belonging to mimes”
  2. derived from mīmicus

Definitions

  1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.

    • 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.

  2. To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

  3. A person who practices mimicry

    A person who practices mimicry; especially:

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in…

      An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.

    2. An imitation.

      • Jess jumped slightly at hearing Tillyʼs extremely accurate mimic of her voice.

    3. A fictional monster able to disguise itself as an inanimate object, commonly a treasure…

      A fictional monster able to disguise itself as an inanimate object, commonly a treasure chest, often with the intent of luring adventurers into a trap.

    4. Pertaining to mimicry

      Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.

      • 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[…].
      • Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
      • And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him.

    5. Mock, pretended.

    6. Imitative

      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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Derived

amimic, automimic, biomimic, mimical, mimic beetle, mimic function, mimic glass lizard, mimicism, mimic octopus, mimic thrush, Moloney's mimic bat, peptidomimic, phosphomimic, zoomimic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mimic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mimic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mimic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA