From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mimic \Mim"ic\, noun One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. --Burke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mimic \Mim"ic\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mimicked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mimicking}.]
1. To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit mimic, and the mien belie. --Dryden.
2. (Biol.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.
Syn: To ape; imitate; counterfeit; mock.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mimic \Mim"ic\, Mimical \Mim"ic*al\, adjective [L. mimicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? mime: cf. F. mimique. See {Mime}.]
Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her. --Milton.
Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. --W. Wotton.
2. Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures. ''Mimic hootings.'' --Wordsworth.
3. (Min.) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Note: Mimic often implies something droll or ludicrous, and is less dignified than imitative.
{Mimic beetle} (Zo["o]l.), a beetle that feigns death when disturbed, esp. the species of {Hister} and allied genera.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison
noun
1: someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) [syn: {mimicker}]
verb
1: imitate (a person, a manner, etc.), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately" [syn: {mime}] [also: {mimicking}, {mimicked}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "mimic": Roscius, act, act a part, act as, act out, actor, actress, antagonist, ape, apish, appear like, approach, approximate, bad guy, barnstormer, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, burlesque, call to mind, call up, caricature, caricaturist, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, come close, come near, compare with, conformist, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, correspond, counterfeit, counterfeiter, cuckoo, diseur, diseuse, dissembler, dissimulator, do, dramatizer, duplicate, echo, echoer, echoic, echoist, emulative, enact, evoke, fake, faker, favor, feeder, feigned, foil, follow, forger, heavy, histrio, histrion, hit off, hit off on, hypocrite, imitate, imitation, imitative, imitator, impersonate, impersonator, impostor, impressionist, ingenue, juvenile, lampoon, look like, make fun of, make-believe, masquerade as, match, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimetic, mimicker, mirror, mock, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, monologist, mum, mummer, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, pantomime, pantomimist, parallel, parodist, parody, parrot, partake of, pass for, perform, performer, personate, phony, plagiarist, play, play a part, playactor, player, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, pose as, poseur, pretend to be, pretended, protean actor, reciter, remind one of, reproduce, resemble, ridicule, satirize, savor of, seem like, sham, sheep, simulate, simulated, simulative, simulator, smack of, soubrette, sound like, stack up with, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stroller, strolling player, suggest, take after, take off, take off on, theatrical, thespian, travesty, trouper, utility man, villain
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
MIMIC An early language designed by J.H. Andrews of the NIH in 1967 for solving engineering problems such as differential equations that would otherwise have been done on an {analog computer}. ["MIMIC, An Alternative Programming Language for Industrial Dynamics, N.D. Peterson, Socio-Econ Plan Sci. 6, Pergamon 1972]. (1995-01-19)
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