(n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.
(v. t.) To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
(v. t.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
(2) The present study explored the possibility that SOD-mimics such as desferrioxamine-Mn(III) chelate [DF-Mn] or cyclic nitroxide stable free radicals could protect from O2-.-independent damage.
(3) In physiological studies CDS mimics clonidine's action as an inhibitor of the electrically induced twitch response and as a partial agonist of the epinephrine-induced platelet aggregation.
(4) It may be assumed that this trait in the evaluation of mimics is due to a constitutional and morbid process.
(5) Mimics are stars and the country’s finest impersonators have their own television shows.
(6) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(7) The neurotransmitter alterations which accompany aluminum neurofibrillary degeneration were examined in order to assess how closely they mimic those of Alzheimer's disease.
(8) of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cAMP-PK) mimics this effect.
(9) Loads up to 2.5 kN were applied, without simulated muscle forces, to mimic the line-of-action of the resultant joint-force in a single-legged stance.
(10) Veryan has developed a stent – a metal mesh tube inserted in an artery – that mimics the natural swirl of the blood flow, which researchers have found improves outcomes for patients with circulation problems.
(11) To mimic physiological conditions, synaptosomes, which are pinched off presynaptic nerve termini, were used.
(12) Again, the ability of lead to mimic or mobilize calcium and activate protein kinases may alter the behavior of endothelial cells in immature brain and disrupt the barrier.
(13) ADP and ATP gamma S were able to mimic the ATP response, whereas AMP and adenosine were unable to elicit a Cl- current.
(14) This peptide appeared to be a strong agonist of FSH action, as measured by the ability to stimulate cAMP production, at concentrations as low as 10(-7) M. The observation that a synthetic peptide, in which (parts of) three earlier described receptor interaction sites are combined according to the three-dimensional model, can mimic the action of FSH, at 10(-7) M, shows that this model is useful to predict a conformational receptor-binding site in FSH and that combination of only a few amino acid residues from the alpha and beta chains of FSH in a small synthetic peptide is sufficient to transduce a signal upon binding to the receptor.
(15) These uncommon ulcers, which mimic carcinoma radiographically and were previously thought to be uniformly fatal, may occasionally heal spontaneously.
(16) Aminophylline and caffeine can mimic this effect; however, papaverine and 1-methyl-3-isobutylxanthine, at concentrations inhibitory to phosphodiesterase, are without effect on glucocorticoid receptor binding to DNA.
(17) There is thus need for models that could mimic such situations.
(18) The present findings demonstrate that exogenously administered cholinomimetics only partly mimic the action of endogenous acetylcholine in the hippocampus.
(19) Histopathologically, the lesions display caseating and noncaseating dermal granulomas that mimic those seen in tuberculosis, tuberculoid leprosy, sarcoidosis, and other diseases.
(20) Cardiac myxomas typically present as a triad of obstructive, embolic, and constitutional symptoms and thus mimic many more common systemic illnesses.
Pageant
Definition:
(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(2) Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.
(3) "What happened with the river pageant for the diamond jubilee was the result of the BBC's understandable anxiety that it should not come across as an institution more often than it has to.
(4) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(5) They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.” Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trump piñata .
(6) As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet , and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.
(7) Almost two months later and a day into the war, Trump declared on Fox News: “It looks like a tremendous success, from a military standpoint.” The day after that, in a San Antonio Express interview found by FactCheck.org , Trump said “ war is depressing ” and encouraged people to watch a beauty pageant.
(8) The video also features photos with Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali and a number of beauty pageant queens.
(9) Not with a song booted out into the world without pageant or fanfare.
(10) And Brand might be a hypocrite if he had bought an entire council estate of his own down the road, in some dodgy local government deal, and was on the verge of moving in the demolition trucks and turning it into a condo with a Miss World pageant on the roof.
(11) Entering Nepal’s first Miss Pink transgender beauty pageant in 2007 changed everything,” she says.
(12) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
(13) Sunday's Thames pageant had a quarter-hour peak of 11.9 million viewers (61%) from 4.15pm, while on Tuesday the carriage procession had a peak of 7.4 million (45.4%) in the 15 minutes from 3.15pm, when the Queen appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
(14) This tawdry friendship of convenience, these pageants, lies and unethical compromises, may benefit Cameron and Xi, but they are an insult to the citizens of Britain, who cherish their hard-fought freedoms, and to those in China , who are still struggling courageously to achieve them.
(15) Univision said last week it would not air the 12 July pageant because of what it called insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants made by Trump when he announced he was running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
(16) Swift deserves critique for her brand of feminism, which is part friendship-as-beauty-pageant mixed with individualism on steroids.
(17) It took £27m and 7,500 volunteers to make last night's pageant, but one man to envisage the possibilities and transform them into reality.
(18) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(19) Some were deposited from Bristol and elsewhere in the middle of the night before the pageant, and told to camp beneath London Bridge.
(20) In one of the defining moments of the opening debate, Clinton successfully baited the former reality TV star by sharing the story of Alicia Machado , the winner of the 1996 Miss Universe pageant, whose physical appearance Trump later derided with nicknames such as “Miss Piggy”.