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Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
Benny Blanco

Meaning of "mimicking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MIMICKING

mimicking  [ˈmɪmɪkɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIMICKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mimicking is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mimicking in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MIMICKING

PRESENT

Present
I mimic
you mimic
he/she/it mimics
we mimic
you mimic
they mimic
Present continuous
I am mimicking
you are mimicking
he/she/it is mimicking
we are mimicking
you are mimicking
they are mimicking
Present perfect
I have mimicked
you have mimicked
he/she/it has mimicked
we have mimicked
you have mimicked
they have mimicked
Present perfect continuous
I have been mimicking
you have been mimicking
he/she/it has been mimicking
we have been mimicking
you have been mimicking
they have been mimicking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I mimicked
you mimicked
he/she/it mimicked
we mimicked
you mimicked
they mimicked
Past continuous
I was mimicking
you were mimicking
he/she/it was mimicking
we were mimicking
you were mimicking
they were mimicking
Past perfect
I had mimicked
you had mimicked
he/she/it had mimicked
we had mimicked
you had mimicked
they had mimicked
Past perfect continuous
I had been mimicking
you had been mimicking
he/she/it had been mimicking
we had been mimicking
you had been mimicking
they had been mimicking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will mimic
you will mimic
he/she/it will mimic
we will mimic
you will mimic
they will mimic
Future continuous
I will be mimicking
you will be mimicking
he/she/it will be mimicking
we will be mimicking
you will be mimicking
they will be mimicking
Future perfect
I will have mimicked
you will have mimicked
he/she/it will have mimicked
we will have mimicked
you will have mimicked
they will have mimicked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been mimicking
you will have been mimicking
he/she/it will have been mimicking
we will have been mimicking
you will have been mimicking
they will have been mimicking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would mimicking
you would mimicking
he/she/it would mimicking
we would mimicking
you would mimicking
they would mimicking
Conditional continuous
I would be mimicking
you would be mimicking
he/she/it would be mimicking
we would be mimicking
you would be mimicking
they would be mimicking
Conditional perfect
I would have mimicking
you would have mimicking
he/she/it would have mimicking
we would have mimicking
you would have mimicking
they would have mimicking
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been mimicking
you would have been mimicking
he/she/it would have been mimicking
we would have been mimicking
you would have been mimicking
they would have been mimicking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mimic
we let´s mimic
you mimic
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mimic
Past participle
mimicked
Present Participle
mimicking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MIMICKING


aching
ˈeɪkɪŋ
baking
ˈbeɪkɪŋ
braking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breaking
ˈbreɪkɪŋ
breathtaking
ˈbrɛθˌteɪkɪŋ
chemicking
ˈkɛmɪkɪŋ
clicking
ˈklɪkɪŋ
decision-making
dɪˈsɪʒənˌmeɪkɪŋ
hiking
ˈhaɪkɪŋ
licking
ˈlɪkɪŋ
liking
ˈlaɪkɪŋ
making
ˈmeɪkɪŋ
picking
ˈpɪkɪŋ
striking
ˈstraɪkɪŋ
taking
ˈteɪkɪŋ
ticking
ˈtɪkɪŋ
trafficking
ˈtræfɪkɪŋ
undertaking
ˈʌndəˌteɪkɪŋ
Viking
ˈvaɪkɪŋ
waking
ˈweɪkɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIMICKING

mimester
mimetic
mimetical
mimetically
mimetite
mimic
mimic panel
mimical
mimicked
mimicker
mimicries
mimicry
MIMinE
miminy-piminy
Mimir
mimographer
mimography
mimosa
mimosaceous
mimsier

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIMICKING

attacking
backing
banking
blocking
checking
cracking
docking
fucking
hacking
kicking
lacking
locking
mocking
overclocking
packing
rocking
shocking
stocking
sucking
tracking
trucking

Synonyms and antonyms of mimicking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MIMICKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mimicking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of mimicking

Translation of «mimicking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIMICKING

Find out the translation of mimicking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mimicking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mimicking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模仿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imitando
570 millions of speakers

English

mimicking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नकल उतार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محاكاة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подражая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imitando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imitant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

mengajuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachahmung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

模倣
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모방
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mimicking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bắt chước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பின்பற்றும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नक्कल करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

taklit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imitando
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naśladując
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наслідуючи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mimand
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μιμούνται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

naboots
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mimicking
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ligne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mimicking

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MIMICKING»

The term «mimicking» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.193 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MIMICKING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mimicking» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mimicking» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mimicking

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10 QUOTES WITH «MIMICKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mimicking.
1
Richie Benaud
But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
2
Janine Benyus
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
3
Benny Blanco
Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
4
Edward Dahlberg
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
5
Jane Horrocks
Mimicking people was something I did already.
6
Armando Iannucci
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.
7
Jackson Katz
During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
8
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
9
Justin Long
I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs.
10
Jason Mantzoukas
When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIMICKING»

Discover the use of mimicking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mimicking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests In The ...
In Mimicking Nature's Fire, forest ecologists Stephen Arno and Carl Fiedler present practical solutions to the pervasive problem of deteriorating forest conditions in western North America.
Stephen F. Arno, Carl E. Fiedler, 2005
2
Vitellogenin, a Marker of Estrogen Mimicking Contaminants in ...
Vitellogenin (Vg), the estrogen inducible protein precursor to egg yolk, serves as an indicator of exposure to estrogen mimicking environmental contaminants.
Amanda June Palumbo, 2008
3
Biochemical Sensors: Mimicking Gustatory and Olfactory Senses
This book is the first to comprehensively treat sensors for gustatory and olfactory senses.
Kiyoshi Toko, 2013
4
Mimicking Marine-based Natural Systems: A Study of ...
This work has implications for the improvement of current reservoir models for hydrate formations, and also provides the impetus for further study in realistic sediments, both from a microscopic and macroscopic point of view.
Michael Waldram Eaton, 2007
5
Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus Compilation, Analysis, and ...
Survey of mimickry tags in COLT (shortened) (mimicking a man's voice) ( mimicking a sexy woman's voice) (mimicking a woman's voice) (mimicking African accent) (mimicking American accent) (mimicking baby's voice) (mimicking Cockney ...
Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen, Ingrid Kristine Hasund, 2002
6
Characterization of Tissue Mimicking Materials for Testing ...
Characterization and applications of soft tissue mimicking materials are presented.
Tuba Yilmaz, 2009
7
Conditions Mimicking Asthma, An Issue of Immunology and ...
Blinics Review Articles IMMUNOLOGY AND ALLERGY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA Conditions Mimicking Asthma EDITOR Eugene M. Choo CONSULTING EDITOR Rafeul Alam FEBRUARY 2013 Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North ...
Eugene M. Choo, 2011
8
Mimicking Reverse Turns with Cyclic Tetrapeptides
Chemical mimics of the reverse turn structures in proteins have proven useful as therapeutics.
Sage Child Arbor, 2008
9
The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their ...
The soundtrack features audio demonstrations so you can compare your efforts to an expert's. Together, this book and CD will send you well on your way to becoming a pisher extraordinaire.
Pete Dunne, 2006
10
Moving Or Mimicking the Market? The Opportunities and ...
Aaron Nance McKethan. state workers, the GIC exercises relative autonomy. Unicare's Slavin recalled an example from his days as GIC's Director of Policy and Research that illustrates how the Commission's political independence and ...
Aaron Nance McKethan, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIMICKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mimicking is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Public Release: 22-Jul-2015 Programming adult stem cells to treat …
Public Release: 22-Jul-2015 Programming adult stem cells to treat muscular dystrophy and more by mimicking nature. American Chemical Society. Share. «EurekAlert, Jul 15»
2
Jon Stewart takes down Donald Trump with a vengeance on The …
Mimicking that, Stewart said Trump must feel the same way about cancer survivors. "You know what else, if I may? Just a moment. And fuck ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
3
Sandia's new vibration table promises different ways of testing
"We're mimicking rides on airplanes, [on] rockets or in the back of a truck to ensure components or systems that we're testing are going to ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
4
Royals celebrate Prince George's 2nd birthday
But he soon regained his composure, mimicking his father's wave to the cameras. That moment capturing father and son, dressed in matching ... «Chattanooga Times Free Press, Jul 15»
5
Mimicking Shift Work Schedule In Mice Leads To Weight Gain And …
Mimicking the circadian disruptions that humans experience in a controlled setting using mice is a way for researchers to identify particular ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
6
Changes to prevent business name mimicking; Housing glut …
“An existing business may be devastated by a new entrant mimicking its name,” he said. “Equally, a new business that inadvertently echoes the ... «SmartCompany.com.au, Jul 15»
7
Why smartphone-mimicking dashboards aren't such a smart idea …
Of course, the idea of the integrated touchscreen mimicking a smartphone ostensibly stems from an attempt by automakers to encourage ... «Motorburn, Jul 15»
8
Chiang Mai cop hunts webmaster for 'mimicking' his lottery prophecies
Pol.Maj.Gen. Nitipat Pattanatabutr, commander of the Fifth Region Police, speaking to reporters on 14 July 2015. CHIANG MAI — A police ... «ThaiVisa News, Jul 15»
9
UMass Amherst scientist to study how estrogen-mimicking
Vandenberg's investigation will focus on an estrogen-mimicking chemical called bisphenol S (BPS), related to bisphenol A (BPA) and now ... «News-Medical.net, Jul 15»
10
Devices mimicking plastic surgery can be perilous
After her parents flatly refused to pay for a nose job, a 17-year-old high school student named Kim turned to the online community for tips on ... «Korea JoongAng Daily, Jul 15»

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