What does mime mean?

Definitions for mime
maɪm, mimmime

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word mime.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimistnoun

    an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression

  2. mime, pantomime, dumb showverb

    a performance using gestures and body movements without words

  3. mimic, mimeverb

    imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect

    "The actor mimicked the President very accurately"

  4. mime, pantomimeverb

    act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only

    "The acting students mimed eating an apple"

GCIDE

  1. Mimenoun

    The art of representing actions, events, situations, or stories solely by gestures and body movements, without speaking; pantomime.

  2. Mimenoun

    An actor who performs or specializes in mime; an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression; a pantomime; a pantomimist; a mimer.

  3. Mimenoun

    A mimic.

  4. Mimenoun

    A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner; an ancient Greek or Roman form of farce.

Wiktionary

  1. mimenoun

    A form of acting without words; pantomime

  2. mimenoun

    A pantomime actor

  3. mimenoun

    A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce

  4. mimenoun

    A performer of such a farce

  5. mimenoun

    A person who mimics others in a comical manner

  6. mimeverb

    To mimic.

  7. mimeverb

    To act without words.

  8. mimeverb

    To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use sound.

  9. MIMEnoun

    an Internet standard that extends the formatting and content capabilities of email.

  10. Etymology: Via mimus, from μῖμος.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. MIMEnoun

    A buffoon who practises gesticulations, either representative of some action, or merely contrived to raise mirth.

    Etymology: mime, Fr. μῖμος; mimus, Latin.

    Think’st thou, mime, this is great? Ben Jonson.

  2. To Mimeverb

    To play the mime.

    Think’st thou, mime, this is great? or that they strive
    Whose noise shall keep thy miming most alive,
    Whilst thou dost raise some player from the grave,
    Out-dance the babion, or out-boast the brave. Ben Jonson.

Wikipedia

  1. MIME

    Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Message bodies may consist of multiple parts, and header information may be specified in non-ASCII character sets. Email messages with MIME formatting are typically transmitted with standard protocols, such as the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the Post Office Protocol (POP), and the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). The MIME standard is specified in a series of requests for comments: RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 4288, RFC 4289 and RFC 2049. The integration with SMTP email is specified in RFC 1521 and RFC 1522. Although the MIME formalism was designed mainly for SMTP, its content types are also important in other communication protocols. In the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for the World Wide Web, servers insert a MIME header field at the beginning of any Web transmission. Clients use the content type or media type header to select an appropriate viewer application for the type of data indicated.

ChatGPT

  1. mime

    A mime is an artist or performer who uses body movements, facial expressions, and gestures without speech to express ideas or tell a story, often incorporating elements of comedy or drama. It may also refer to the performance art itself, which originated from ancient Greece and Rome. These performances often exaggerate everyday activities and experiences for dramatic or comedic effect.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mimenoun

    a kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner

  2. Mimenoun

    an actor in such representations

  3. Mimeverb

    to mimic

  4. Etymology: [L. mimus, Gr. , akin to to imitate, to mimic: cf. F. mime. Cf. Mimosa.]

Wikidata

  1. MIME

    Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support: ⁕Text in character sets other than ASCII ⁕Non-text attachments ⁕Message bodies with multiple parts ⁕Header information in non-ASCII character sets MIME's use, however, has grown beyond describing the content of email and now is often used to describe content type in general including for the web and as a storage for rich content in some commercial products. Virtually all human-written Internet email and a fairly large proportion of automated email is transmitted via SMTP in MIME format. Internet email is so closely associated with the SMTP and MIME standards that it is sometimes called SMTP/MIME email. The content types defined by MIME standards are also of importance outside of email, such as in communication protocols like HTTP for the World Wide Web. HTTP requires that data be transmitted in the context of email-like messages, although the data most often is not actually email. MIME is specified in six linked RFC memoranda: RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 4288, RFC 4289 and RFC 2049, which together define the specifications.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mime

    mīm, n. a farce in which scenes from actual life were represented by gesture: an actor in such a farce.—n. Mim′esis, a mimicking of the speech, gestures, &c. of a person or a people: (biol.) mimicry.—adjs. Mimet′ic, -al, apt to imitate.—v.t. Mim′ic, to imitate: simulate:—pr.p. mim′icking; pa.p. mim′icked.n. one who mimics: a buffoon: a servile imitator.—adjs. Mim′ic, -al, imitative: mock: miniature.—ns. Mim′icker; Mim′icry, act of mimicking: an imitative resemblance in one animal to another or to some inanimate object. [Gr. mimos.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mime in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mime in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of mime in a Sentence

  1. Marcel Marceau:

    Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

  2. David Bowie:

    I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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Translations for mime

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  • mim, pantomimaCzech
  • miimikko, pantomiimikko, pantomiimi, imitaattori, mimiikkaFinnish
  • pantomime, mimeFrench
  • mim, pantomimaPolish
  • мим, пантомимаRussian

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