Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which mimics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who mimics; a mimic.
- noun (Zoöl.) An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
mimics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, Dr. Goli, you know, one thing about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, it's a mimicker, isn't it?
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Turning from the still, moonlit sheet, the silent reeds, the clear mimicker in the slumbrous wood, the two wayfarers plunged into the darkness beneath the spreading branches of the oak-trees.
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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Being a born mimicker of other men, a very German in industry, and a great egotist, he began casting about for other models.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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Results of three experiments suggest that mimicry is more nuanced than previously thought and not, the authors write, "uniformly beneficial to the mimicker."
Forbes.com: News Carol Kinsey Goman 2011
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BPA was developed in the 1930s as an estrogenic mimicker and appears to cause significant disruption to the body's endocrine system.
NewsInferno 2010
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In the early 1900s, it was actually used as an estrogen mimicker ... and in the 1950s it was found that BPA could actually be used in plastic.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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Because I know this about myself: I am a mimicker.
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Because I know this about myself: I am a mimicker.
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Because I know this about myself: I am a mimicker.
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Because I know this about myself: I am a mimicker.
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