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单词 pantomimed
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pantomime

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noun

pan·​to·​mime ˈpan-tə-ˌmīm How to pronounce pantomime (audio)
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: pantomimist
2
a
: an ancient Roman dramatic performance featuring a solo dancer and a narrative chorus
b
: any of various dramatic or dancing performances in which a story is told by expressive bodily or facial movements of the performers
a ballet that is part dance and part pantomime
c
: a British theatrical entertainment of the Christmas season based on a nursery tale and featuring topical songs, tableaux, and dances
3
a
: conveyance of a story by bodily or facial movements especially in drama or dance
b
: the art or genre of conveying a story by bodily movements only
pantomimic
ˌpan-tə-ˈmi-mik How to pronounce pantomime (audio)
adjective

pantomime

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verb

pantomimed; pantomiming

intransitive verb

: to engage in pantomime

transitive verb

: to represent by pantomime

Synonyms

Noun

  • gesticulation
  • gesture
  • mime
  • sign
  • signal
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Example Sentences

Noun In the game of charades, one player uses pantomime to represent a word or phrase that the other players have to try to guess. We saw pantomimes at the fair. a ballet that is part dance and part pantomime Verb He pantomimed someone talking on the phone.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Mundane explanations, like crowd mismanagement, couldn’t compete with the exciting idea of Scott being a cackling pantomime villain, sacrificing innocent souls to the underworld. Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 July 2022 In explaining this, Ms. Hutchinson offered a discreet pantomime of the action, placing her own hand lightly on her clavicle. New York Times, 30 June 2022 He is woefully outmaneuvered by the polymath Doja Cat, who brings theatricality and whimsy to her pantomime of a jet-setting fling. Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022 But Sternberg plays out a Cold War pantomime that parallels the hot war of male–female relations. Armond White, National Review, 8 June 2022 Prince George made a surprise appearance along with the rest of his family at the London Palladium, to see a special performance of a pantomime. Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 4 June 2022 Howe had previously visited Hartford’s American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, an incubator for what would soon emerge as American Sign Language, but dismissed signing as little more than pantomime. Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 12 May 2022 The drums are locked in an easy rhythm here, giving us time to mull the possibilities, but then the horns start bleating in weird places and Le Bon decides to warp and curl her melodies in pantomime. Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022 The young prince seemed to enjoy the pantomime—a farcical play, often staged around the holidays in Britain—watching from his mom Kate's lap with sister Charlotte looking on. The Editors, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2022
Verb
Why not offer an instruction or training sequence that asks players to pantomime certain moves, then display a checkmark and play a pleasant tone upon doing it right two or three times? Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022 Although Barry never took murder lightly, per se, the show mined plenty of comedy from the ensemble surrounding its sullen protagonist, as Barry strained to pantomime the sunniness around him. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 That might be why some studies have found that the J&J shot is especially good at tickling certain types of T cells, which prefer to take their lessons from vaccines that will pantomime infected cells. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021 Because audience members interact at close range with the actors, who wear face masks, their monologues and dialogue were prerecorded for audio clarity, and the actors pantomime most of the words. San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022 As the play clock ticked down toward zero, American Heritage quarterback Blake Murphy took the snap and appeared to pantomime a spike into the ground, consistent with feigning a frustrated reaction to a delay-of-game penalty. Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2021 What’s happening with the jacobins has a distant parallel in damselflies, insects whose females pantomime the patterns of males to stave off excessive copulation. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021 For example, Cogdill might ask applicants to pantomime a scene, such as walking across a frozen pond without skates. Sara Mosle, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020 But unlike other classic Harmonix games, which ask you to pantomime your favorite bands, Fuser opens players up to a DJ's unique creation process. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 30 June 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun and Verb

Latin pantomimus, from pant- + mimus mime

First Known Use

Noun

1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1768, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Kids Definition

pantomime 1 of 2

noun

pan·​to·​mime ˈpan-tə-ˌmīm How to pronounce pantomime (audio)
1
: the act of showing or explaining something through movements of the body and face instead of by talking
2
: a show in which a story is told by using expressions on the face and movements of the body instead of words

pantomime

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verb

pantomimed; pantomiming
: to tell through movements rather than words

pantomimed

verb

past tense of pantomime
as in mimed

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • mimed
  • gestured
  • gesticulated
  • gestured
  • signed
  • waved
  • motioned
  • signaled
  • nodded
  • beckoned
  • flagged
  • signalled
  • signalized
  • informed
  • shrugged
  • related
  • acquainted
  • flourished
  • told
  • advised
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