Clown vs Mime - What's the difference?
clown | mime |
A performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig and who performs slapstick.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
(UK) A stupid person.
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
* Cowper
A form of acting without words; pantomime
A pantomime actor
A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce
A performer of such a farce
A person who mimics others in a comical manner
To mimic.
To act without words.
To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.
As nouns the difference between clown and mime
is that clown is a performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig and who performs slapstick while mime is a form of acting without words; pantomime.As verbs the difference between clown and mime
is that clown is to act in a silly fashion while mime is to mimic.As a proper noun MIME is
acronym of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions,|lang=en an Internet standard that extends the formatting and content capabilities of email.clown
English
Noun
(wikipedia clown) (en noun)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- The clown , the child of nature, without guile.