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Mimic vs Betamimetic - What's the difference?

mimic | betamimetic |

As nouns the difference between mimic and betamimetic

is that mimic is a person who practices mimicry, or mime while betamimetic is (medicine) any drug that has this action.

As adjectives the difference between mimic and betamimetic

is that mimic is pertaining to mimicry; imitative while betamimetic is that mimics the stimulation of the beta-adrenergic receptors of the sympathetic nervous system.

As a verb mimic

is to imitate, especially in order to ridicule.

mimic

English

Alternative forms

* mimick

Verb

  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
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  • (biology) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who practices mimicry, or mime.
  • An imitation.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
  • *, II.12:
  • I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish and mimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare.
  • * Milton
  • Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Mimic hootings.
  • Mock, pretended.
  • (mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
  • betamimetic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That mimics the stimulation of the beta-adrenergic receptors of the sympathetic nervous system
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) Any drug that has this action