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Definition of Mimic
Mimic
Alt. of Mimical

One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.

To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.

To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.


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Mimic Quotations
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.
Daphne Zuniga

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Huston Smith

I have always been a good mimic.
Robin Wright Penn

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Laurence Olivier

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.
Deana Carter

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
Matthew Barney


It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.
Michael Welch

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
Arthur Hailey

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
Art Carney

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Mimic Translations
mimic in German is Mimik, mimisch
mimic in Spanish is imitador






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