Definition of mime in English:

mime

noun mʌɪm

1mass noun The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement.
mime is part of our cultural heritage
Example sentencesExamples
- Her pupils learn all about camera work, have step-by-step vocal exercises, discover how to create new characters, find out all about movement, mime and script work and are also taught all about audition techniques.
- It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building.
- Their easy, unforced use of gesture breathes life into mime, making it an extension of speech.
- Improvisational mime and innovative physical theatre tell the story of a dysfunctional family living outside the law.
- Her storytelling manner is highly stylised and she uses elements of mime in her movements.
- He was the outsider who was on intimate terms with them, communicating through comic mime with expressions and gestures that became a well known code.
- Backyard Theatre Company provides training for acting, mime and improvisation, scriptwriting, filmmaking and community drama.
- Her vocabulary was composed of simple runs, skips, and jumps; large, expressive gestures and playful mime.
- He muffed a few steps in his solo, but for most of the ballet delivered well the extraordinary combination of modern technique, mime and classical choreography.
- Lose yourself at the Wits Theatre in Braamfontein, where Just In Time interweaves mime and movement, and illusion and the surreal take centre stage.
- McColl's delightful monologue is the most well integrated of the five, assisted by physical theatre and mime.
- Go along to see a variety of dance including contemporary, hip hop, cabaret, physical theatre, salsa, mime and physical character.
- She trained in mime and physical theatre, acted on stage and on TV, and ran theatres in Islington and St Catherine's Docks before seeing the job at Jacksons Lane advertised.
- Sometimes she added her own witty mime to the words or pulled a funny face to make us laugh, and we did laugh.
- He uses mime, movement, acrobatics and text in a very literate way.
- A training system needs to integrate technique, style, mime, acting, character dancing, and historical dance.
- All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning.
- The ‘provocative and powerful’ show combines humour, spectacle, character comedy and mime on September 26 - October 1.
- Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a collection of gestures or mime.
- He did not undergo any special studies in mime or movement.
1. 1.1count noun A theatrical performance using mime.
  the ceremony was followed by a series of precise mimes, dances, and songs
  Example sentencesExamples
  Their attack on George, a 58 year-old United Church minister who was performing a mime, was totally uncalled for, and seemed to be designed to provoke an angry reaction from a peaceful crowd.
  Her majesty also watched a mime and street dance performance from students at Welling School on the theme of life as a teenager.
  Martin Rowland and Colm Grealis performed wonders in a mime about a visit to the dreaded dentist.
  But after a point, blogging without writing gets to be like the electronic equivalent of street miming, and we all know how lame and annoying street mimes can get.
  Any series that can combine absinthe, mannequins, mimes, and beheadings and pull it off is okay in my book.
  They cleared the floor and treated the crowd to a mime and dance routine that had us all in stitches.
  The mime in Act 1 looked foreshortened - but I'm used to the Peter Wright version which makes much of it.
  The crowd were then treated to a mime performed by pupils of 3rd class.
  On the night of January 27 there will be a two-hour multi cultural performance of drama, songs, dances and mimes.
  Anyone who wanted to take part in any way, be it dancing, singing, telling an impromptu story or doing a mime, was given the opportunity to perform.
  The school won for performing a street mime showing God's wonderful creation of trees and flowers, butterflies, lady-birds, and insects of all kinds enjoying a clean environment.
  With a cast of 66, lots of music and humour, the mime is produced by Aysha Rau and directed by Aparna Gopinath.
  Remembered primarily as a pastoral poet, he was in fact a most versatile writer, and a bridal hymn, a panegyric, and a mime describing two middle-class women at a showy religious ceremony are among his best pieces.
  A six-member troupe of students presented a mime based on unemployment problems of the youth as well as on issues such as dowry and corruption in various Government departments.
  Synonyms
  dumb show, pantomime, mummery
2. 1.2count noun An action or actions intended to convey another action, an idea, or an emotion.
  he performed a brief mime of someone fencing
  Example sentencesExamples
  I managed to communicate to her what I had discovered through a series of mimes, mews and whisker movements.
  Finally he ended with a mime of what looked like the preparation of an egg dish.
  In his elation, he performed another of his mimes.
  Joshua made circles of his fingers over his eyes, a brief mime of spectacles.
  Lachlan Rayburn saw her looking at him and, to her complete astonishment, put his hands together in the mime of applause before turning his back to her and shoving his way out of the crowd of people.
  And, when they do, they always smile and sigh, and there's a silent mime of applause.
  Synonyms
  dumb show, pantomime, mummery
3. 1.3count noun A practitioner of mime or a performer in a mime.
  he's a very fine actor and mime artist
  a group of mimes pretending to play tennis
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are street minstrels, acrobats, story tellers, mimes, and painters.
  I was enormously gratified, especially considering that Doug's first impression of me was formed at our launch event, where I was acting as a mime.
  So far Joan has encountered the Almighty as a street sweeper, a mime, a guy from the power company, a naval recruiter, and a little girl playing with a ball in the park.
  Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers.
  Illya was a white-blond pre-bald beatnik in black everything plus turtleneck who brought to mind one of those theatre of the absurd clowns we now associate with mimes and Frenchmen in general.
  From here we observed the mime artists performing in the glorious fountained gardens.
  Was it his experience of studying with legendary French mimes Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaultier?
  I didn't talk much in my other classes, but it was a mandatory thing to talk in theatre, unless you wanted to be a mime and I wasn't into all those horizontal stripes, they made me look hippy.
  The magic tricks of Astor, the performance of mimes and the band will keep the party spirit up.
  Other entertainment included talented mimes, beauty contests and other on-stage performances, boxing, water sports competitions and loads of local and regional merchandise displayed along Beach Road.
  One night a friend and I went into town to see the mime artist Marcel Marceau.
  The show will also have some mime artists giving performances.
  Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908.
  And for the first time it seems to be populated by people, not jerky mimes in pancake makeup.
  She has a habit of being photographed menacing her band-mate with an antique sword, for one thing, and for another, well, she makes herself up like a mime before performances.
  You have to imagine a combination of Dr Johnson, Isaiah Berlin, Peter Sellers, and don't forget Charlie Chaplin because Peter was a great mime too.
  From a pair of mimes to a company the size of Cirque du Soleil, the French are visited by dozens of new-circus troupes a year.
  Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every move.
  MacLean is an adept physical comic and a skilled mime, which adds a bit of flare here, but this gloss hardly excuses the standard manner in which the play unfolds.
  There will be actors strolling among the crowds, square dancers, singers, mimes and someone creating balloon animals.
2(in ancient Greece and Rome) a simple farcical drama including mimicry.
the Dorian mimes first began to lay the foundations of the theatre
Example sentencesExamples
- N. Purcell examines imperial mimes, K. Coleman presents a study of the punishment of delatores - those who had spied for previous (and now deceased and discredited) emperors.
- His works have not survived, and the only known Greek mimes date from two centuries later.
- These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society.
- In fact, in Greece during the first centuries ad the term denoted a category of actors who recreated ancient legends on stage through dramatic mimes!
Synonyms
dumb show, pantomime, mummery

verb mʌɪm

1with object Use only gesture and movement to act out (a play or role)
a mimed play
no object they've even mimed in a restaurant hall
Example sentencesExamples
- The title role was mimed in the original version.
- So Jon and I were standing there, miming this scene from Moonlight Mile - and have I mentioned just how scrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal looks in this movie, with the doe eyes and the buttery, knobby shoulders?
- They gave him easy stuff to do, such as miming a scene while someone else did the voice.
1. 1.1 Convey or represent (an action, idea, or emotion) by using only gesture and movement.
  Eddie mimed an attack of nausea
  Example sentencesExamples
  In one of the most arresting scenes in the film we see Szpilman miming the piano with his hands hovering over the keys in order to not make a sound and be detected.
  As Sancho runs to help, the clown climbs upon his donkey and mimes the funny scene he has just witnessed and then returns the donkey.
  Boris, playing to the crowd, mimed the pratfall from his side of the court.
  Two big men with faces flushed from drink look over, miming cricketing actions that would not get them selected for a half-decent junior school team.
  Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine.
  Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
  For example, in one early scene, he wakes Barrett up with a boisterous aria from ‘The Barber of Seville,’ but his hand over Barrett gently mimes a stabbing motion.
  As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors' gestures.
  In its most vividly political form, dancers mime movements from the hunt as they chant joyful threats at police holding machine guns.
  My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down.
  He mimes gun motions in the mirror with his hands, and looks on the Internet for assistance in acquiring one.
  In the final ‘whipping’ scene he really looks like a drama student miming agony, sad to say.
  The video shows lots of river shots, while the dancers mime fishlike movements.
  She mimes the movements of her double, projected same-size on the screen of her own body.
  For as I had worshipped in the Christian churches, prayed to God, did everything the creatures about me did, I was simply miming the acts, the gestures, the holy phrases.
  The latter is a chance for the artists to flex their iconic muscle, using manga's sophisticated visual code to mime new heights of emotion.
  I mimed a throat-slitting gesture with my finger and followed it up by tugging on an invisible rope around my neck; David snorted into his mug.
  He mimed her ceaseless talking with a gesture of his right hand.
  It feels real, thanks to the inclusion of a small girl who can effectively mime fear and horror.
  After a few moments, Telli seemed to have decided that there were no obvious dangers in the castle, as he turned back and, still too careful to shout down, made gestures with his arms and hands miming someone climbing a rope.
  Synonyms
  act out, pantomime, use gestures to indicate, gesture, simulate, represent, indicate by dumb show, indicate by sign language
2no object Pretend to sing or play an instrument as a recording is being played.
singers on television often mime to pre-recorded tape tracks
Example sentencesExamples
- It's not as exciting as listening to a good act, backed by live musicians, but it beats trying to work out if the ‘turn’ is actually singing, or merely miming to his/her/their tapes!
- The song's video features Kay and celebrities including Michael Parkinson and soap actors William Roache and Anne Kirkbride - Coronation Street's Ken and Deirdre Barlow - miming along to the song.
- Thankfully, the thundering of the powerful droplets against the canvas roofing of the tent drowned out the warbling of five staff I'd never seen before miming to some song or other.
- It was reminiscent of the television commercial which shows a cheating singer being chased out of a platteland town when a record he mimes to gets stuck.
- The cabaret this night was a Geri Halliwell tribute, and consisted mainly of various drag acts miming to her records.
- A couple of weeks ago in the US, teeny pop star Ashlee Simpson was caught out miming to the wrong song on Saturday Night Live.
- Pace, on the other hand, looks a bit like a teacher who thought he was funny at the end of the year and used to get up and do a turn which involved miming to a Status Quo record whilst wearing a funny wig.
- We also had some Simon and Garfunkel which we would use to mime to and put on concerts!
- There they all were, standing by the river, looking disappointingly ordinary in broad daylight, miming to whatever single they had out at the time - presumably for some Saturday morning kids' TV show.
- They put the music on loud in the background and she had to mime to it.
- And here was this callow, insolent youth, miming to an absurdly ‘cleaned up’ version of the track which merely involved the surgical removal of the rude words in question.
- They then hired a young unknown Chester band called The Wayriders to mime to the track in the accompanying video.
- Matt, Charlie and James will collectively flick the switch at 5.30 this Sunday and will then mime to some of their popular chart hits such as What I Go To School For and Year 3000.
- During the orchestral interludes, the curtain remains up and characters mime to the music.
- She had been asked to mime in the choir during performances so wasn't confident about singing but we didn't care.
- For the most part the other contestants either mimed to foreign recordings or gyrated to Indian music.
- Blue, the most extraordinary pop band of the last thirty years, used to mime on their records.
- Sonya Waters tells many a fascinating tale about her life as a rock chick in early punk bands in Auckland and then stints in the UK (briefly as a member of the Thompson Twins, miming on a TV show) and the US.
- David has now left the country along with his wife who apparently used to mime on some hit records.
- But the only apparent connection with Miss Dando was that she had taken part in a charity film for Comic Relief in 1993 in which she mimed along to a Queen song.

Derivatives

mimer

noun

In previous years, professional Korean mimers have performed, as well as some new performers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Bringing more good news from Sweden, these foxy female 20-somethings have been playing since pre-pubescence, and this well-timed stateside debut hits girlie bands and Strokes mimers where it hurts.
- The other aim of the acting lessons is to help the mimers to develop their ability to work with others and to create their own material.
- We had mummers and mimers, too, with ballads and traditional dialogues, and the famous old interlude of the Hobby Horse.

Origin

Early 17th century (also in the sense 'mimic or jester'): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.

pantomime from late 16th century:
This word comes from Greek pantomimos ‘imitator of all’. In Latin pantomimus was used for an actor using mime. This later developed into a comic dramatization with the stock characters of Clown, Pantaloon (see pantaloons), Harlequin, and Columbine. The familiar panto based on fairy tales such as Mother Goose or Cinderella and involving music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy developed in the 19th century, with a new set of conventional characters including the dame, the principal boy, and the pantomime horse. Mime (early 17th century) and mimic (late 16th century) come from the same root.

Rhymes

begrime, Chaim, chime, climb, clime, crime, dime, grime, half-time, I'm, lime, mistime, part-time, prime, rhyme, rime, slime, sublime, sub-prime, thyme, time

mime¹

nounmīmmaɪm

1The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement.
Example sentencesExamples
- Improvisational mime and innovative physical theatre tell the story of a dysfunctional family living outside the law.
- A training system needs to integrate technique, style, mime, acting, character dancing, and historical dance.
- Sometimes she added her own witty mime to the words or pulled a funny face to make us laugh, and we did laugh.
- She trained in mime and physical theatre, acted on stage and on TV, and ran theatres in Islington and St Catherine's Docks before seeing the job at Jacksons Lane advertised.
- Go along to see a variety of dance including contemporary, hip hop, cabaret, physical theatre, salsa, mime and physical character.
- It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building.
- He did not undergo any special studies in mime or movement.
- Her vocabulary was composed of simple runs, skips, and jumps; large, expressive gestures and playful mime.
- Her storytelling manner is highly stylised and she uses elements of mime in her movements.
- The ‘provocative and powerful’ show combines humour, spectacle, character comedy and mime on September 26 - October 1.
- He uses mime, movement, acrobatics and text in a very literate way.
- Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a collection of gestures or mime.
- Their easy, unforced use of gesture breathes life into mime, making it an extension of speech.
- He muffed a few steps in his solo, but for most of the ballet delivered well the extraordinary combination of modern technique, mime and classical choreography.
- All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning.
- He was the outsider who was on intimate terms with them, communicating through comic mime with expressions and gestures that became a well known code.
- Lose yourself at the Wits Theatre in Braamfontein, where Just In Time interweaves mime and movement, and illusion and the surreal take centre stage.
- Backyard Theatre Company provides training for acting, mime and improvisation, scriptwriting, filmmaking and community drama.
- Her pupils learn all about camera work, have step-by-step vocal exercises, discover how to create new characters, find out all about movement, mime and script work and are also taught all about audition techniques.
- McColl's delightful monologue is the most well integrated of the five, assisted by physical theatre and mime.
1. 1.1 A theatrical performance or part of a performance using mime.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The school won for performing a street mime showing God's wonderful creation of trees and flowers, butterflies, lady-birds, and insects of all kinds enjoying a clean environment.
  On the night of January 27 there will be a two-hour multi cultural performance of drama, songs, dances and mimes.
  Her majesty also watched a mime and street dance performance from students at Welling School on the theme of life as a teenager.
  Their attack on George, a 58 year-old United Church minister who was performing a mime, was totally uncalled for, and seemed to be designed to provoke an angry reaction from a peaceful crowd.
  But after a point, blogging without writing gets to be like the electronic equivalent of street miming, and we all know how lame and annoying street mimes can get.
  The crowd were then treated to a mime performed by pupils of 3rd class.
  Remembered primarily as a pastoral poet, he was in fact a most versatile writer, and a bridal hymn, a panegyric, and a mime describing two middle-class women at a showy religious ceremony are among his best pieces.
  The mime in Act 1 looked foreshortened - but I'm used to the Peter Wright version which makes much of it.
  Martin Rowland and Colm Grealis performed wonders in a mime about a visit to the dreaded dentist.
  Anyone who wanted to take part in any way, be it dancing, singing, telling an impromptu story or doing a mime, was given the opportunity to perform.
  They cleared the floor and treated the crowd to a mime and dance routine that had us all in stitches.
  Any series that can combine absinthe, mannequins, mimes, and beheadings and pull it off is okay in my book.
  With a cast of 66, lots of music and humour, the mime is produced by Aysha Rau and directed by Aparna Gopinath.
  A six-member troupe of students presented a mime based on unemployment problems of the youth as well as on issues such as dowry and corruption in various Government departments.
  Synonyms
  dumb show, pantomime, mummery
2. 1.2 An action or set of actions intended to convey the idea of another action or an idea or feeling.
  he performed a brief mime of someone fencing
  Example sentencesExamples
  In his elation, he performed another of his mimes.
  Joshua made circles of his fingers over his eyes, a brief mime of spectacles.
  I managed to communicate to her what I had discovered through a series of mimes, mews and whisker movements.
  And, when they do, they always smile and sigh, and there's a silent mime of applause.
  Finally he ended with a mime of what looked like the preparation of an egg dish.
  Lachlan Rayburn saw her looking at him and, to her complete astonishment, put his hands together in the mime of applause before turning his back to her and shoving his way out of the crowd of people.
  Synonyms
  dumb show, pantomime, mummery
3. 1.3 A practitioner of mime or a performer in a mime.
  he's a very fine actor and mime artist
  a group of mimes pretending to play tennis
  Example sentencesExamples
  The show will also have some mime artists giving performances.
  There are street minstrels, acrobats, story tellers, mimes, and painters.
  The magic tricks of Astor, the performance of mimes and the band will keep the party spirit up.
  There will be actors strolling among the crowds, square dancers, singers, mimes and someone creating balloon animals.
  I was enormously gratified, especially considering that Doug's first impression of me was formed at our launch event, where I was acting as a mime.
  MacLean is an adept physical comic and a skilled mime, which adds a bit of flare here, but this gloss hardly excuses the standard manner in which the play unfolds.
  Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers.
  So far Joan has encountered the Almighty as a street sweeper, a mime, a guy from the power company, a naval recruiter, and a little girl playing with a ball in the park.
  Illya was a white-blond pre-bald beatnik in black everything plus turtleneck who brought to mind one of those theatre of the absurd clowns we now associate with mimes and Frenchmen in general.
  She has a habit of being photographed menacing her band-mate with an antique sword, for one thing, and for another, well, she makes herself up like a mime before performances.
  I didn't talk much in my other classes, but it was a mandatory thing to talk in theatre, unless you wanted to be a mime and I wasn't into all those horizontal stripes, they made me look hippy.
  Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908.
  One night a friend and I went into town to see the mime artist Marcel Marceau.
  Other entertainment included talented mimes, beauty contests and other on-stage performances, boxing, water sports competitions and loads of local and regional merchandise displayed along Beach Road.
  Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every move.
  From here we observed the mime artists performing in the glorious fountained gardens.
  You have to imagine a combination of Dr Johnson, Isaiah Berlin, Peter Sellers, and don't forget Charlie Chaplin because Peter was a great mime too.
  From a pair of mimes to a company the size of Cirque du Soleil, the French are visited by dozens of new-circus troupes a year.
  And for the first time it seems to be populated by people, not jerky mimes in pancake makeup.
  Was it his experience of studying with legendary French mimes Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaultier?
2(in ancient Greece and Rome) a simple farcical drama including mimicry.
Example sentencesExamples
- These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society.
- N. Purcell examines imperial mimes, K. Coleman presents a study of the punishment of delatores - those who had spied for previous (and now deceased and discredited) emperors.
- In fact, in Greece during the first centuries ad the term denoted a category of actors who recreated ancient legends on stage through dramatic mimes!
- His works have not survived, and the only known Greek mimes date from two centuries later.
Synonyms
dumb show, pantomime, mummery

verbmīmmaɪm

[with object]

1Use gesture and movement without words in the acting of (a play or role).
Example sentencesExamples
- They gave him easy stuff to do, such as miming a scene while someone else did the voice.
- So Jon and I were standing there, miming this scene from Moonlight Mile - and have I mentioned just how scrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal looks in this movie, with the doe eyes and the buttery, knobby shoulders?
- The title role was mimed in the original version.
1. 1.1 Convey an impression of (an idea or feeling) by gesture and movement, without using words; mimic (an action or set of actions) in this way.
  he stands up and mimes throwing a spear
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the final ‘whipping’ scene he really looks like a drama student miming agony, sad to say.
  The latter is a chance for the artists to flex their iconic muscle, using manga's sophisticated visual code to mime new heights of emotion.
  Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine.
  In its most vividly political form, dancers mime movements from the hunt as they chant joyful threats at police holding machine guns.
  Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
  He mimed her ceaseless talking with a gesture of his right hand.
  He mimes gun motions in the mirror with his hands, and looks on the Internet for assistance in acquiring one.
  As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors' gestures.
  The video shows lots of river shots, while the dancers mime fishlike movements.
  In one of the most arresting scenes in the film we see Szpilman miming the piano with his hands hovering over the keys in order to not make a sound and be detected.
  I mimed a throat-slitting gesture with my finger and followed it up by tugging on an invisible rope around my neck; David snorted into his mug.
  After a few moments, Telli seemed to have decided that there were no obvious dangers in the castle, as he turned back and, still too careful to shout down, made gestures with his arms and hands miming someone climbing a rope.
  It feels real, thanks to the inclusion of a small girl who can effectively mime fear and horror.
  As Sancho runs to help, the clown climbs upon his donkey and mimes the funny scene he has just witnessed and then returns the donkey.
  Two big men with faces flushed from drink look over, miming cricketing actions that would not get them selected for a half-decent junior school team.
  For as I had worshipped in the Christian churches, prayed to God, did everything the creatures about me did, I was simply miming the acts, the gestures, the holy phrases.
  She mimes the movements of her double, projected same-size on the screen of her own body.
  Boris, playing to the crowd, mimed the pratfall from his side of the court.
  For example, in one early scene, he wakes Barrett up with a boisterous aria from ‘The Barber of Seville,’ but his hand over Barrett gently mimes a stabbing motion.
  My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down.
  Synonyms
  act out, pantomime, use gestures to indicate, gesture, simulate, represent, indicate by dumb show, indicate by sign language

Origin

Early 17th century (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.

MIME²

nounˈem ˈī ˈem ˈē

Computing

A standard for formatting files of different types, such as text, graphics, or audio, so they can be sent over the Internet and seen or played by a web browser or email application.

Origin

1990s: an acronym for multipurpose Internet mail extensions.

单词	mime
释义	Definition of mime in English: mime noun mʌɪm 1mass noun The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement. mime is part of our cultural heritage Example sentencesExamples Her pupils learn all about camera work, have step-by-step vocal exercises, discover how to create new characters, find out all about movement, mime and script work and are also taught all about audition techniques. It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building. Their easy, unforced use of gesture breathes life into mime, making it an extension of speech. Improvisational mime and innovative physical theatre tell the story of a dysfunctional family living outside the law. Her storytelling manner is highly stylised and she uses elements of mime in her movements. He was the outsider who was on intimate terms with them, communicating through comic mime with expressions and gestures that became a well known code. Backyard Theatre Company provides training for acting, mime and improvisation, scriptwriting, filmmaking and community drama. Her vocabulary was composed of simple runs, skips, and jumps; large, expressive gestures and playful mime. He muffed a few steps in his solo, but for most of the ballet delivered well the extraordinary combination of modern technique, mime and classical choreography. Lose yourself at the Wits Theatre in Braamfontein, where Just In Time interweaves mime and movement, and illusion and the surreal take centre stage. McColl's delightful monologue is the most well integrated of the five, assisted by physical theatre and mime. Go along to see a variety of dance including contemporary, hip hop, cabaret, physical theatre, salsa, mime and physical character. She trained in mime and physical theatre, acted on stage and on TV, and ran theatres in Islington and St Catherine's Docks before seeing the job at Jacksons Lane advertised. Sometimes she added her own witty mime to the words or pulled a funny face to make us laugh, and we did laugh. He uses mime, movement, acrobatics and text in a very literate way. A training system needs to integrate technique, style, mime, acting, character dancing, and historical dance. All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning. The ‘provocative and powerful’ show combines humour, spectacle, character comedy and mime on September 26 - October 1. Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a collection of gestures or mime. He did not undergo any special studies in mime or movement. 1.1count noun A theatrical performance using mime. the ceremony was followed by a series of precise mimes, dances, and songs Example sentencesExamples Their attack on George, a 58 year-old United Church minister who was performing a mime, was totally uncalled for, and seemed to be designed to provoke an angry reaction from a peaceful crowd. Her majesty also watched a mime and street dance performance from students at Welling School on the theme of life as a teenager. Martin Rowland and Colm Grealis performed wonders in a mime about a visit to the dreaded dentist. But after a point, blogging without writing gets to be like the electronic equivalent of street miming, and we all know how lame and annoying street mimes can get. Any series that can combine absinthe, mannequins, mimes, and beheadings and pull it off is okay in my book. They cleared the floor and treated the crowd to a mime and dance routine that had us all in stitches. The mime in Act 1 looked foreshortened - but I'm used to the Peter Wright version which makes much of it. The crowd were then treated to a mime performed by pupils of 3rd class. On the night of January 27 there will be a two-hour multi cultural performance of drama, songs, dances and mimes. Anyone who wanted to take part in any way, be it dancing, singing, telling an impromptu story or doing a mime, was given the opportunity to perform. The school won for performing a street mime showing God's wonderful creation of trees and flowers, butterflies, lady-birds, and insects of all kinds enjoying a clean environment. With a cast of 66, lots of music and humour, the mime is produced by Aysha Rau and directed by Aparna Gopinath. Remembered primarily as a pastoral poet, he was in fact a most versatile writer, and a bridal hymn, a panegyric, and a mime describing two middle-class women at a showy religious ceremony are among his best pieces. A six-member troupe of students presented a mime based on unemployment problems of the youth as well as on issues such as dowry and corruption in various Government departments. Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery 1.2count noun An action or actions intended to convey another action, an idea, or an emotion. he performed a brief mime of someone fencing Example sentencesExamples I managed to communicate to her what I had discovered through a series of mimes, mews and whisker movements. Finally he ended with a mime of what looked like the preparation of an egg dish. In his elation, he performed another of his mimes. Joshua made circles of his fingers over his eyes, a brief mime of spectacles. Lachlan Rayburn saw her looking at him and, to her complete astonishment, put his hands together in the mime of applause before turning his back to her and shoving his way out of the crowd of people. And, when they do, they always smile and sigh, and there's a silent mime of applause. Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery 1.3count noun A practitioner of mime or a performer in a mime. he's a very fine actor and mime artist a group of mimes pretending to play tennis Example sentencesExamples There are street minstrels, acrobats, story tellers, mimes, and painters. I was enormously gratified, especially considering that Doug's first impression of me was formed at our launch event, where I was acting as a mime. So far Joan has encountered the Almighty as a street sweeper, a mime, a guy from the power company, a naval recruiter, and a little girl playing with a ball in the park. Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers. Illya was a white-blond pre-bald beatnik in black everything plus turtleneck who brought to mind one of those theatre of the absurd clowns we now associate with mimes and Frenchmen in general. From here we observed the mime artists performing in the glorious fountained gardens. Was it his experience of studying with legendary French mimes Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaultier? I didn't talk much in my other classes, but it was a mandatory thing to talk in theatre, unless you wanted to be a mime and I wasn't into all those horizontal stripes, they made me look hippy. The magic tricks of Astor, the performance of mimes and the band will keep the party spirit up. Other entertainment included talented mimes, beauty contests and other on-stage performances, boxing, water sports competitions and loads of local and regional merchandise displayed along Beach Road. One night a friend and I went into town to see the mime artist Marcel Marceau. The show will also have some mime artists giving performances. Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908. And for the first time it seems to be populated by people, not jerky mimes in pancake makeup. She has a habit of being photographed menacing her band-mate with an antique sword, for one thing, and for another, well, she makes herself up like a mime before performances. You have to imagine a combination of Dr Johnson, Isaiah Berlin, Peter Sellers, and don't forget Charlie Chaplin because Peter was a great mime too. From a pair of mimes to a company the size of Cirque du Soleil, the French are visited by dozens of new-circus troupes a year. Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every move. MacLean is an adept physical comic and a skilled mime, which adds a bit of flare here, but this gloss hardly excuses the standard manner in which the play unfolds. There will be actors strolling among the crowds, square dancers, singers, mimes and someone creating balloon animals. 2(in ancient Greece and Rome) a simple farcical drama including mimicry. the Dorian mimes first began to lay the foundations of the theatre Example sentencesExamples N. Purcell examines imperial mimes, K. Coleman presents a study of the punishment of delatores - those who had spied for previous (and now deceased and discredited) emperors. His works have not survived, and the only known Greek mimes date from two centuries later. These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society. In fact, in Greece during the first centuries ad the term denoted a category of actors who recreated ancient legends on stage through dramatic mimes! Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery verb mʌɪm 1with object Use only gesture and movement to act out (a play or role) a mimed play no object they've even mimed in a restaurant hall Example sentencesExamples The title role was mimed in the original version. So Jon and I were standing there, miming this scene from Moonlight Mile - and have I mentioned just how scrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal looks in this movie, with the doe eyes and the buttery, knobby shoulders? They gave him easy stuff to do, such as miming a scene while someone else did the voice. 1.1 Convey or represent (an action, idea, or emotion) by using only gesture and movement. Eddie mimed an attack of nausea Example sentencesExamples In one of the most arresting scenes in the film we see Szpilman miming the piano with his hands hovering over the keys in order to not make a sound and be detected. As Sancho runs to help, the clown climbs upon his donkey and mimes the funny scene he has just witnessed and then returns the donkey. Boris, playing to the crowd, mimed the pratfall from his side of the court. Two big men with faces flushed from drink look over, miming cricketing actions that would not get them selected for a half-decent junior school team. Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine. Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe. For example, in one early scene, he wakes Barrett up with a boisterous aria from ‘The Barber of Seville,’ but his hand over Barrett gently mimes a stabbing motion. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors' gestures. In its most vividly political form, dancers mime movements from the hunt as they chant joyful threats at police holding machine guns. My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down. He mimes gun motions in the mirror with his hands, and looks on the Internet for assistance in acquiring one. In the final ‘whipping’ scene he really looks like a drama student miming agony, sad to say. The video shows lots of river shots, while the dancers mime fishlike movements. She mimes the movements of her double, projected same-size on the screen of her own body. For as I had worshipped in the Christian churches, prayed to God, did everything the creatures about me did, I was simply miming the acts, the gestures, the holy phrases. The latter is a chance for the artists to flex their iconic muscle, using manga's sophisticated visual code to mime new heights of emotion. I mimed a throat-slitting gesture with my finger and followed it up by tugging on an invisible rope around my neck; David snorted into his mug. He mimed her ceaseless talking with a gesture of his right hand. It feels real, thanks to the inclusion of a small girl who can effectively mime fear and horror. After a few moments, Telli seemed to have decided that there were no obvious dangers in the castle, as he turned back and, still too careful to shout down, made gestures with his arms and hands miming someone climbing a rope. Synonyms act out, pantomime, use gestures to indicate, gesture, simulate, represent, indicate by dumb show, indicate by sign language 2no object Pretend to sing or play an instrument as a recording is being played. singers on television often mime to pre-recorded tape tracks Example sentencesExamples It's not as exciting as listening to a good act, backed by live musicians, but it beats trying to work out if the ‘turn’ is actually singing, or merely miming to his/her/their tapes! The song's video features Kay and celebrities including Michael Parkinson and soap actors William Roache and Anne Kirkbride - Coronation Street's Ken and Deirdre Barlow - miming along to the song. Thankfully, the thundering of the powerful droplets against the canvas roofing of the tent drowned out the warbling of five staff I'd never seen before miming to some song or other. It was reminiscent of the television commercial which shows a cheating singer being chased out of a platteland town when a record he mimes to gets stuck. The cabaret this night was a Geri Halliwell tribute, and consisted mainly of various drag acts miming to her records. A couple of weeks ago in the US, teeny pop star Ashlee Simpson was caught out miming to the wrong song on Saturday Night Live. Pace, on the other hand, looks a bit like a teacher who thought he was funny at the end of the year and used to get up and do a turn which involved miming to a Status Quo record whilst wearing a funny wig. We also had some Simon and Garfunkel which we would use to mime to and put on concerts! There they all were, standing by the river, looking disappointingly ordinary in broad daylight, miming to whatever single they had out at the time - presumably for some Saturday morning kids' TV show. They put the music on loud in the background and she had to mime to it. And here was this callow, insolent youth, miming to an absurdly ‘cleaned up’ version of the track which merely involved the surgical removal of the rude words in question. They then hired a young unknown Chester band called The Wayriders to mime to the track in the accompanying video. Matt, Charlie and James will collectively flick the switch at 5.30 this Sunday and will then mime to some of their popular chart hits such as What I Go To School For and Year 3000. During the orchestral interludes, the curtain remains up and characters mime to the music. She had been asked to mime in the choir during performances so wasn't confident about singing but we didn't care. For the most part the other contestants either mimed to foreign recordings or gyrated to Indian music. Blue, the most extraordinary pop band of the last thirty years, used to mime on their records. Sonya Waters tells many a fascinating tale about her life as a rock chick in early punk bands in Auckland and then stints in the UK (briefly as a member of the Thompson Twins, miming on a TV show) and the US. David has now left the country along with his wife who apparently used to mime on some hit records. But the only apparent connection with Miss Dando was that she had taken part in a charity film for Comic Relief in 1993 in which she mimed along to a Queen song. Derivatives mimer noun In previous years, professional Korean mimers have performed, as well as some new performers. Example sentencesExamples Bringing more good news from Sweden, these foxy female 20-somethings have been playing since pre-pubescence, and this well-timed stateside debut hits girlie bands and Strokes mimers where it hurts. The other aim of the acting lessons is to help the mimers to develop their ability to work with others and to create their own material. We had mummers and mimers, too, with ballads and traditional dialogues, and the famous old interlude of the Hobby Horse. Origin Early 17th century (also in the sense 'mimic or jester'): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos. pantomime from late 16th century: This word comes from Greek pantomimos ‘imitator of all’. In Latin pantomimus was used for an actor using mime. This later developed into a comic dramatization with the stock characters of Clown, Pantaloon (see pantaloons), Harlequin, and Columbine. The familiar panto based on fairy tales such as Mother Goose or Cinderella and involving music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy developed in the 19th century, with a new set of conventional characters including the dame, the principal boy, and the pantomime horse. Mime (early 17th century) and mimic (late 16th century) come from the same root. Rhymes begrime, Chaim, chime, climb, clime, crime, dime, grime, half-time, I'm, lime, mistime, part-time, prime, rhyme, rime, slime, sublime, sub-prime, thyme, time mime¹ nounmīmmaɪm 1The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement. Example sentencesExamples Improvisational mime and innovative physical theatre tell the story of a dysfunctional family living outside the law. A training system needs to integrate technique, style, mime, acting, character dancing, and historical dance. Sometimes she added her own witty mime to the words or pulled a funny face to make us laugh, and we did laugh. She trained in mime and physical theatre, acted on stage and on TV, and ran theatres in Islington and St Catherine's Docks before seeing the job at Jacksons Lane advertised. Go along to see a variety of dance including contemporary, hip hop, cabaret, physical theatre, salsa, mime and physical character. It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building. He did not undergo any special studies in mime or movement. Her vocabulary was composed of simple runs, skips, and jumps; large, expressive gestures and playful mime. Her storytelling manner is highly stylised and she uses elements of mime in her movements. The ‘provocative and powerful’ show combines humour, spectacle, character comedy and mime on September 26 - October 1. He uses mime, movement, acrobatics and text in a very literate way. Contrary to popular misconception, it is not a collection of gestures or mime. Their easy, unforced use of gesture breathes life into mime, making it an extension of speech. He muffed a few steps in his solo, but for most of the ballet delivered well the extraordinary combination of modern technique, mime and classical choreography. All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning. He was the outsider who was on intimate terms with them, communicating through comic mime with expressions and gestures that became a well known code. Lose yourself at the Wits Theatre in Braamfontein, where Just In Time interweaves mime and movement, and illusion and the surreal take centre stage. Backyard Theatre Company provides training for acting, mime and improvisation, scriptwriting, filmmaking and community drama. Her pupils learn all about camera work, have step-by-step vocal exercises, discover how to create new characters, find out all about movement, mime and script work and are also taught all about audition techniques. McColl's delightful monologue is the most well integrated of the five, assisted by physical theatre and mime. 1.1 A theatrical performance or part of a performance using mime. Example sentencesExamples The school won for performing a street mime showing God's wonderful creation of trees and flowers, butterflies, lady-birds, and insects of all kinds enjoying a clean environment. On the night of January 27 there will be a two-hour multi cultural performance of drama, songs, dances and mimes. Her majesty also watched a mime and street dance performance from students at Welling School on the theme of life as a teenager. Their attack on George, a 58 year-old United Church minister who was performing a mime, was totally uncalled for, and seemed to be designed to provoke an angry reaction from a peaceful crowd. But after a point, blogging without writing gets to be like the electronic equivalent of street miming, and we all know how lame and annoying street mimes can get. The crowd were then treated to a mime performed by pupils of 3rd class. Remembered primarily as a pastoral poet, he was in fact a most versatile writer, and a bridal hymn, a panegyric, and a mime describing two middle-class women at a showy religious ceremony are among his best pieces. The mime in Act 1 looked foreshortened - but I'm used to the Peter Wright version which makes much of it. Martin Rowland and Colm Grealis performed wonders in a mime about a visit to the dreaded dentist. Anyone who wanted to take part in any way, be it dancing, singing, telling an impromptu story or doing a mime, was given the opportunity to perform. They cleared the floor and treated the crowd to a mime and dance routine that had us all in stitches. Any series that can combine absinthe, mannequins, mimes, and beheadings and pull it off is okay in my book. With a cast of 66, lots of music and humour, the mime is produced by Aysha Rau and directed by Aparna Gopinath. A six-member troupe of students presented a mime based on unemployment problems of the youth as well as on issues such as dowry and corruption in various Government departments. Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery 1.2 An action or set of actions intended to convey the idea of another action or an idea or feeling. he performed a brief mime of someone fencing Example sentencesExamples In his elation, he performed another of his mimes. Joshua made circles of his fingers over his eyes, a brief mime of spectacles. I managed to communicate to her what I had discovered through a series of mimes, mews and whisker movements. And, when they do, they always smile and sigh, and there's a silent mime of applause. Finally he ended with a mime of what looked like the preparation of an egg dish. Lachlan Rayburn saw her looking at him and, to her complete astonishment, put his hands together in the mime of applause before turning his back to her and shoving his way out of the crowd of people. Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery 1.3 A practitioner of mime or a performer in a mime. he's a very fine actor and mime artist a group of mimes pretending to play tennis Example sentencesExamples The show will also have some mime artists giving performances. There are street minstrels, acrobats, story tellers, mimes, and painters. The magic tricks of Astor, the performance of mimes and the band will keep the party spirit up. There will be actors strolling among the crowds, square dancers, singers, mimes and someone creating balloon animals. I was enormously gratified, especially considering that Doug's first impression of me was formed at our launch event, where I was acting as a mime. MacLean is an adept physical comic and a skilled mime, which adds a bit of flare here, but this gloss hardly excuses the standard manner in which the play unfolds. Musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, actors, mimes and every hybrid in between entertain and educate audiences of kids, their parents and teachers. So far Joan has encountered the Almighty as a street sweeper, a mime, a guy from the power company, a naval recruiter, and a little girl playing with a ball in the park. Illya was a white-blond pre-bald beatnik in black everything plus turtleneck who brought to mind one of those theatre of the absurd clowns we now associate with mimes and Frenchmen in general. She has a habit of being photographed menacing her band-mate with an antique sword, for one thing, and for another, well, she makes herself up like a mime before performances. I didn't talk much in my other classes, but it was a mandatory thing to talk in theatre, unless you wanted to be a mime and I wasn't into all those horizontal stripes, they made me look hippy. Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908. One night a friend and I went into town to see the mime artist Marcel Marceau. Other entertainment included talented mimes, beauty contests and other on-stage performances, boxing, water sports competitions and loads of local and regional merchandise displayed along Beach Road. Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every move. From here we observed the mime artists performing in the glorious fountained gardens. You have to imagine a combination of Dr Johnson, Isaiah Berlin, Peter Sellers, and don't forget Charlie Chaplin because Peter was a great mime too. From a pair of mimes to a company the size of Cirque du Soleil, the French are visited by dozens of new-circus troupes a year. And for the first time it seems to be populated by people, not jerky mimes in pancake makeup. Was it his experience of studying with legendary French mimes Jacques Lecoq and Philippe Gaultier? 2(in ancient Greece and Rome) a simple farcical drama including mimicry. Example sentencesExamples These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society. N. Purcell examines imperial mimes, K. Coleman presents a study of the punishment of delatores - those who had spied for previous (and now deceased and discredited) emperors. In fact, in Greece during the first centuries ad the term denoted a category of actors who recreated ancient legends on stage through dramatic mimes! His works have not survived, and the only known Greek mimes date from two centuries later. Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery verbmīmmaɪm [with object] 1Use gesture and movement without words in the acting of (a play or role). Example sentencesExamples They gave him easy stuff to do, such as miming a scene while someone else did the voice. So Jon and I were standing there, miming this scene from Moonlight Mile - and have I mentioned just how scrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal looks in this movie, with the doe eyes and the buttery, knobby shoulders? The title role was mimed in the original version. 1.1 Convey an impression of (an idea or feeling) by gesture and movement, without using words; mimic (an action or set of actions) in this way. he stands up and mimes throwing a spear Example sentencesExamples In the final ‘whipping’ scene he really looks like a drama student miming agony, sad to say. The latter is a chance for the artists to flex their iconic muscle, using manga's sophisticated visual code to mime new heights of emotion. Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine. In its most vividly political form, dancers mime movements from the hunt as they chant joyful threats at police holding machine guns. Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe. He mimed her ceaseless talking with a gesture of his right hand. He mimes gun motions in the mirror with his hands, and looks on the Internet for assistance in acquiring one. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors' gestures. The video shows lots of river shots, while the dancers mime fishlike movements. In one of the most arresting scenes in the film we see Szpilman miming the piano with his hands hovering over the keys in order to not make a sound and be detected. I mimed a throat-slitting gesture with my finger and followed it up by tugging on an invisible rope around my neck; David snorted into his mug. After a few moments, Telli seemed to have decided that there were no obvious dangers in the castle, as he turned back and, still too careful to shout down, made gestures with his arms and hands miming someone climbing a rope. It feels real, thanks to the inclusion of a small girl who can effectively mime fear and horror. As Sancho runs to help, the clown climbs upon his donkey and mimes the funny scene he has just witnessed and then returns the donkey. Two big men with faces flushed from drink look over, miming cricketing actions that would not get them selected for a half-decent junior school team. For as I had worshipped in the Christian churches, prayed to God, did everything the creatures about me did, I was simply miming the acts, the gestures, the holy phrases. She mimes the movements of her double, projected same-size on the screen of her own body. Boris, playing to the crowd, mimed the pratfall from his side of the court. For example, in one early scene, he wakes Barrett up with a boisterous aria from ‘The Barber of Seville,’ but his hand over Barrett gently mimes a stabbing motion. My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down. Synonyms act out, pantomime, use gestures to indicate, gesture, simulate, represent, indicate by dumb show, indicate by sign language Origin Early 17th century (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos. MIME² nounˈem ˈī ˈem ˈē Computing A standard for formatting files of different types, such as text, graphics, or audio, so they can be sent over the Internet and seen or played by a web browser or email application. Origin 1990s: an acronym for multipurpose Internet mail extensions. noun.1 noun.2
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