Mime
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The word mime is used to refer to a mime artist
who uses a theatrical medium or performance art involving the acting out of a story through body motions without use of speech.
Mime may also refer to:
Mime artist
A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer...
who uses a theatrical medium or performance art involving the acting out of a story through body motions without use of speech.
Mime may also refer to:
- MimeLip syncLip sync, lip-sync, lip-synch is a technical term for matching lip movements with sung or spoken vocals...
, an alternative word for lip sync - MIMEMIMEMultipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts...
, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - The character Mime in Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
's Der Ring des NibelungenDer Ring des NibelungenDer Ring des Nibelungen is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner . The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied...
. - Mime (character class), a type of character in the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games
- Mime (Happy Tree Friends), a fictional character in the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends
- Mime, a style of Dorian Greek poetry also called mime-iambic. SophronSophronSophron of Syracuse was a writer of mimes.Sophron was the author of prose dialogues in the Doric dialect, containing both male and female characters, some serious, others humorous in style, and depicting scenes from the daily life of the Sicilian Greeks. Although in prose, they were regarded as...
and HerodasHerodasthumb|The first column of the Herodas papyrus, showing Mimiamb 1. 1–15.Herodas , or Herondas , was a Greek poet and the author of short humorous dramatic scenes in verse, written under the Alexandrian empire in the 3rd century BC.Apart from the intrinsic merit of these pieces, they are...
were two major authors of them - M.I.M.E - initialism for Member of the Institution of Mechanical EngineersInstitution of Mechanical EngineersThe Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the British engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers...
- Mime, a unit of imitation in the theory of SymbiosismSymbiosismSymbiosism is a Darwinian theory of language that recognises language to be an organism residing in the human brain. Language is a memetic life form. By the Leiden School definition, memes are meanings, i.e. isofunctional neuroanatomical constructs corresponding to signs in the sense of Ferdinand...