different between mime vs copy

English

Etymology

From Old English m?ma ("a mime") from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos, “imitator, actor”). Reinforced in Middle English by French mime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

mime (countable and uncountable, plural mimes)

1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
2. A pantomime actor.
3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
4. A performer of such a farce.
5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.

Related terms

• pantomime

Translations

Verb

mime (third-person singular simple present mimes, present participle miming, simple past and past participle mimed)

1. To mimic.
2. To act without words.
3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

Translations

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

See also

• lip-synch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mim/
• Rhymes: -im

Etymology 1

From Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos)

Noun

mime m (plural mimes)

1. pantomime actor, mime
2. pantomime

Derived terms

• mimer

Etymology 2

Verb

mime

1. first-person singular present indicative of mimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of mimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
5. second-person singular imperative of mimer

Anagrams

• emmi

Further reading

• “mime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Verb

mime

1. inflection of mimen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

mime

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

m?me

1. vocative singular of m?mus

Portuguese

Verb

mime

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of mimir
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of mimir

Spanish

Verb

mime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mimar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mimar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mimar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mimar.

English

Alternative forms

• coppy, coppie, copie (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin c?pia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?pi/
• Hyphenation: copy
• Rhymes: -?pi

Noun

copy (plural copies)

1. The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
   • 1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy

     I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.

2. An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.

3. (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
4. (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
5. (marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
6. (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.

7. A school work pad.

8. A printed edition of a book or magazine.

9. Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
10. (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

      Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters.

11. (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
    • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

      She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.

12. (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
13. (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• original

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

copy (third-person singular simple present copies, present participle copying, simple past and past participle copied)

1. (transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
2. (transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).

3. (transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.

4. (transitive) To imitate.
   • 1793, Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy

     We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.

5. (radio) To receive a transmission successfully.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From English copy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kopy/, [?ko?py]
• Syllabification: co?py

Noun

copy

1. (slang) A copywriter.
2. (slang) A copy (output of copywriter).

Declension