mimic

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who practices mimicry; especially:; A mime.
  2. A person who practices mimicry; especially:; A comic who does impressions.
  3. An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
  4. An imitation.
    — Jess jumped slightly at hearing Tillyʼs extremely accurate mimic of her voice.
  5. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. transitive
    — 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. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. not-comparable
    — 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[…].
  2. Mock, pretended. not-comparable
  3. Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. not-comparable

词形变化

mimics present,singular,third-person mimicking participle,present mimicked participle,past mimicked past mimick alternative,obsolete mimics plural mimick alternative,obsolete mimick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
mimicker
衍生词
amimic automimic biomimic mimical mimic beetle mimic function mimic glass lizard mimicism mimic octopus mimic thrush Moloney's mimic bat peptidomimic phosphomimic zoomimic
相关词
mime mimicable mimicry

词源

词源 1
From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
词源 2
From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
词源 3
From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
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