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Usage examples of mimic.

In both cases, the rotations could be treated algebraically, and the traditional way to get a handle on this was to make use of a set of matrices of complex numbers whose relationships mimicked the algebra in question.

They were roped together with a string, they had mimic alpenstocks and ice-axes, and were climbing a meek and lowly manure-pile with a most blood-curdling amount of care and caution.

This central nervous system stimulant, used by more than eighty million Americans, is the only food ingredient that actually mimics the stress response, giving you an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and glucose availability to the brain that increases alertness.

He taught it to mimic every other specimen of avifauna, and nearly every sound made by everything else.

The girls of course thought themselves obliged to mimic the airs of men, and they did not accost us like young men accustomed to behave respectfully to ladies.

Children learned adult behavior by emulating their parents, and sexual behavior was just one of many activities they mimicked.

The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose with such exactitude that Nesvitski could not help laughing.

The key will shriek in the lock, The door will rustily hinge, Will open on features of mould, To vanish corrupt at a glimpse, And mock as the wild echoes mock, Soulless in mimic, doth Greed Or the passion for fruitage tinge That dream, for your parricide imps To wing through the body of Time, Yourselves in slaying him slay.

He swept his diamond blade back and forth, mimicking the many ways he planned to slice Lord Gith, Vice-Emperor or no.

One class of glutamate receptor is known as the NMDA receptor, because the effects of glutamate can be mimicked by injection of the chemically similar substance N-methyl-D-aspartic acid.

I had proclaimed myself as a novice in the mimic art, and had entreated my lame friend to be kind enough to instruct me.

Pucci and silently cursed the boys who mimicked his lispy speech as they passed by in the corridor.

She threw back her head and let her human throat mimic the lupine call.

In the most annoying and obnoxious voice I had, I mimicked what she had just said.

Neon mimicked, then smiled in the direction of the office console, wondering if Tech was watching him.