mimic vs repeat

mimic

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. 

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. 

repeat

noun
  • An iteration; a repetition. 

  • A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun. 

  • A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein). 

  • A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated. 

  • A refill of a prescription. 

verb
  • To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed. 

  • To refill (a prescription). 

  • To strike the hours, as a watch does. 

  • To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate. 

  • To happen again; recur. 

  • To echo the words of (a person). 

  • To repay or refund (an excess received). 

  • To do or say again (and again). 

How often have the words mimic and repeat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )