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mimic

/mim-ik/US // ˈmɪm ɪk //UK // (ˈmɪmɪk) //

模仿,模仿者,模仿品,模似

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    mim·icked, mim·ick·ing.

    • : to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
    • : to imitate in a servile or unthinking way; ape.
    • : to be an imitation of; simulate; resemble closely.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who mimics, especially a performer skilled in mimicking others.
    • : a copy or imitation of something.
    • : a performer in a mime.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : imitating or copying something, often on a smaller scale: a mimic battle.
    • : apt at or given to imitating; imitative; simulative.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbimitate, mock
Forms: mimicked, mimicking

Examples

  • Like remdesivir, favipiravir works by mimicking a building block of the virus’s genetic material, RNA.

  • It also focuses more on content about staycations, or recipes one can cook to mimic being someplace new.

  • That observing setup mimicked the way astronomers plan to probe the atmospheres of Earthlike exoplanets as they pass in front of their stars, filtering out some starlight.

  • Next, clinicians should look for other explanations, conditions that could mimic brain death but are actually reversible.

  • The multimedia brand mimics the experience of Wolfe Pereira and his co-founders, all of whom grew up in multicultural households.

  • When my hair gets long enough I kid myself I can mimic the glorious tumbling fringe of “the Rachel” sometimes.

  • But under what moral principle must a nation mimic both the madness and the misdirection of its enemy?

  • The results: Even moderate MDMA doses in conditions that mimic hot, crowded, social settings could be lethal to rats.

  • The team designed over 40 themed soundscapes that mimic environments, all of which are free to download.

  • He slowed down the action at times for effect; he jolted the camera to mimic the jittery imperfection of a documentary.

  • For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

  • Very often the little ones mimic it in fun, and children's games, most times, are copies of their elders' workaday doings.

  • Samuel cried at the loss of his pretty kite, and Charles Duran was mean enough to mimic the boy whom he had thus injured.

  • That monarch, easily the first comedian of his time, allowed no rivals on the mimic stage, and it languished during his reign.

  • It was almost as if, for a brief interval, the mimic was the scholar, though always with the drop of ridicule or mischief added.