noun, verb
noun [U,C] (especially in the theatre) the use of movements of your hands or body and the expressions on your face to tell a story or to act sth without speaking; a performance using this method of acting:
The performance consisted of dance, music and mime. * a mime artist * She performed a brief mime.
Part of speech: verb
1 to act, tell a story, etc. by moving your body and face but without speaking:
[VN] Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book. * [V-ing] He mimed climbing a mountain. [also V]
2 ~ (to) sth to pretend to sing a song that is actually being sung by sb else on a record, tape, etc:
[V] The band was miming to a backing tape. [also VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for mime is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mime a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mime is tagged as verb.
Does mime appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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