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mime Definition

mime (mīm)

noun

  1. an ancient Greek or Roman farce, in which people and events were mimicked and burlesqued
  2. the representation of an action, character, mood, etc. by means of gestures and actions rather than words
  3. an actor who performs in mimes; specif., a mimic or pantomimist

Etymology: L mimus < Gr mimos, imitator, actor

transitive verb mimed, mim·ing

to imitate, mimic, or act out as a mime

intransitive verb

to act as a mime; play a part with gestures and actions, but usually without words

mime Related Forms

mimer noun

mime Synonyms

mime

n.

  1. An imitator

    mimic, impersonator, comedian; see actor 1, imitator.

  2. An imitation

    mockery, caricature, mimicry; see imitation 2, parody.

mime Synonyms

mime

v.

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Telecom Definition

Extensions to the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) used in IP-based networks for e-mail. MIME was developed to overcome SMTP's ASCII limitation, which supports only plain text, i.e., unformatted text. MIME standards, as defined in the IETF RFC 2045, include a number of types and subtypes that support a range of data formats. Those types include the following:

mime Usage Examples

Object

  • action: Every time Mark drinks, Chris must mime a sexual action.
  • scene: In groups encourage the pupils to mime scenes from the story.
  • word: But he started miming the wrong words and I nearly sang the wrong words myself.
  • story: If I choose you, you go into the circle and mime the story.
  • performance: It started with a mimed performance going horribly wrong when the record skipped and continued skipping.

Converse of object

  • include: To include mime, movement, facial expression skills Storytelling into drama - " The Living Wood " .
  • use: Explore the original story using mime, music, symbolic movement.
  • do: The last person does the mime for the audience.
  • make: Due to the noise the audience make mimes of the words being spoken have been developed.

Modifies a noun

  • type: Deleting a MIME type You can delete custom MIME types at any time.
  • attachment: New features in this version include: MIME attachments support.
  • artist: Here's an example: Type mime artists into the search box.
  • header: MIME headers don't have anything to do with the transport protocol used for the message.
  • scene: It really did look like a debut performance in the mime scenes.
  • message: Most MIME messages contain a single Content-ID header, at the top level of the message.

Modifying Another Word

not: I guarantee you, I was not miming tonight.

Followed by an intransitive particle

along: Come on, Milo's is more laid back than anywhere, dance, mime along to your favorite tunes, whatever you fancy.

Noun used with modifier

  • text/html: The problem is that B. User included the document source for the page as a text/html MIME attachment.
  • chemical: This is in accord with our proposal to implement a direct chemical mime type.
  • chemical/x-pdb: When the user activates the mouse in this region the co-ordinates are downloaded wrapped as a chemical/x-pdb MIME type.

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