mimic

Etymology
From, from , from ; see mime.

Verb

 * 1) To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
 * 2)  To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
 * 1)  To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:imitate

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: imitatu
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: imitovat
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: herma eftir
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: atdarināt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: tāwhai
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: herme etter
 * Oromo: akkeessuu
 * Polish: przedrzeźniać
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene:, oponašati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: мимикрирам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Vietnamese: ,

Noun

 * 1) A person who practices mimicry; especially:
 * 2) A mime.
 * 3) A comic who does impressions.
 * 4) An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see .
 * 5) An imitation.
 * 1) An imitation.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: aithriseoir
 * Norman: d'ganneux
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Russian: ,

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
 * 2) Mock, pretended.
 * 3)  Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
 * 1) Mock, pretended.
 * 2)  Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
 * 1)  Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

Etymology
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