mime

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mime [mime mimes mimed miming] noun, verb BrE [maɪm] NAmE [maɪm]
noun (also less frequent dumb·show)uncountable, countable
(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.

Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.
 
verb
1. transitive, intransitive to act, tell a story, etc. by moving your body and face but without speaking
•~ (sth) Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book.
•~ doing sth He mimed climbing a mountain.
2. intransitive, transitive ~ (to sth) | ~ (sth) to pretend to sing a song that is actually being sung by sb else on a tape, etc
•The band was miming to a backing tape.
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Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.
 
See also: ↑dumbshow

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pantomime, dumb show, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist, mimic