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Mimicked vs Mimicking - What's the difference?

mimicked | mimicking |

As verbs the difference between mimicked and mimicking

is that mimicked is (mimic) while mimicking is .

As a noun mimicking is

mimicry.

mimicked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mimic)

  • 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.
  • mimicking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • mimicry
  • * (Washington Irving)
  • They had a thousand odd stories and jokes about the events of the day, and burlesque descriptions and mimickings of the spectators who had been admiring them.