barrack vs mimic

barrack

verb
  • To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means. 

  • To cheer for or support a team. 

  • To house military personnel; to quarter. 

  • To live in barracks. 

noun
  • A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes. 

  • Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building. 

  • A police station. 

  • A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. 

  • A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings. 

mimic

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

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