MIMICKING Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster copy, imitate, mimic, ape, mock mean to make something so that it resembles an existing thing copy suggests duplicating an original as nearly as possible imitate suggests following a model or a pattern but may allow for some variation mimic implies a close copying (as of voice or mannerism) often for fun, ridicule, or lifelike imitation
MIMICKING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary These patients demonstrated a total dependence on environmental stimuli to guide their actions, compulsively using objects (utilization behaviors) and mimicking the experimenter (imitation behavior)
MIMIC definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary If you mimic the actions or voice of a person or animal, you imitate them, usually in a way that is meant to be amusing or entertaining He could mimic anybody, and he often reduced Isabel to helpless laughter If someone or something mimics another person or thing, they try to be like them
mimic verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . mimic something (specialist or formal) to look or behave like something else synonym imitate The robot was programmed to mimic a series of human movements Scientists have created a vaccine that mimics the virus The computer model is able to mimic very closely the actions of a golfer
mimicking - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Noun mimicking (countable and uncountable, plural mimickings) (uncountable) gerund of mimic: mimicry; (countable) an instance of this