ham vs mimic

ham

verb
  • To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. 

noun
  • An amateur radio operator. 

  • A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat. 

  • Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail. 

  • An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style. 

  • The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. 

  • The back of the thigh. 

  • Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food. 

mimic

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

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

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. 

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. 

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