mimes in English

noun
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a standard for formatting files of different types, such as text, graphics, or audio, so they can be sent over the Internet and seen or played by a web browser or e-mail application.
noun
1
the theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement.
It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime , improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building.
verb
1
use gesture and movement without words in the acting of (a play or role).
The title role was mimed in the original version.

Use "mimes" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "mimes" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mimes", or refer to the context using the word "mimes" in the English Dictionary.

1. Clownish figures appear in the farces and mimes of ancient Greece and Rome as foils to more serious characters

2. She was lively, and was fond of performing comic mimes with the dogs, as though they were performing in a circus."

3. The surviving poems by Theocritus that are generally held to be authentic comprise Bucolics (pastoral poetry), mimes with either rural or urban settings, brief poems in epic or lyric metres, and epigrams