0 the art of using movement to perform the function of speech, especially in drama -- mime
She is studying mime.
1 a play in which no words are spoken and the actions tell the story -- pantomime
The children performed a mime.
2 an actor in such a play; someone who practises this art -- mimiker
Marcel Marceau was a famous mime.
3 to act, eg in such a play, using movements rather than words -- mime
In contrast to memes, the fecundity of mimes as replicators and their fidelity of replication are limited, more so in pre-linguistic contexts.
The band twice appeared live in the studio, miming to the song.
With three of the children having their backs turned to the action, the emcee mimes out a situation to the first child.
Examples include kneading bread dough, wringing out a towel, avoiding laser-beams or miming the shape of an imaginary object.
Consequently, he forbade mimes from appearing on stage in public.
In future my descendants for eighty generations shall serve thee as thy mimes in ordinary.
During rehearsals, the reading expanded into a production with one naked actor miming the text with several dolls.
They are playing a piece of miming.
