Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mime

(mimes, miming, mimed) 1. Mime is the use of movements and gestures in order to express something or tell a story without using speech. Music, mime and strong visual imagery play a strong part in the productions... ...a mime artist. N-VAR 2. If you mime something, you describe or express it using mime rather than speech. It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework... I remember asking her to mime getting up in the morning. VERB: V n/-ing, V n/-ing, also V 3. If you mime, you pretend to be singing or playing an instrument, although the music is in fact coming from a CD or cassette. Richey’s not miming, he’s playing very quiet guitar... In concerts, the group mime their songs... The waiters mime to records playing on the jukebox. VERB: V, V n, V to n