different between joker vs mime

English

Etymology

joke +? -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

joker (plural jokers)

1. A person who makes jokes.
2. (slang) A funny person.
3. A jester.

   Synonyms: court jester, fool, jester

4. A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
5. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

6. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
7. A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
   • 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment (page lxxxiii)

     Discussion of contracts and the many provisions contained therein led to a vote making it the sense of the convention that manufacturers should use a simple sales contract, free from jokers.

   • 1939, Canadian Parliament, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons (volume 218, page 858)

     Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is a joker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent, […]

   • 1942, Billboard (volume 54, number 41, page 5)

     Stone claimed that there was a Joker in the contract, one clause (No. 2) calling for two weeks' notice and another (No. 8) calling for payment on a par-day basis after the first two weeks.

   • 1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting (page 12)

     The object of these provisions is to prevent insertion of "jokers" or "sleepers" in bills and securing passage under the false color of the title.

Related terms

• joke

See also

• ????, ????, ????

Translations

See also

See also

• Wikipedia article on jokers (jesters)
• Wikipedia article on the joker (playing card)
• Wikipedia article on the Joker in Batman

Anagrams

• jerko

Danish

Etymology

From English joker.

Noun

joker

1. joker (playing card)

Declension

Further reading

• “joker” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jo?k?r/
• Rhymes: -o?k?r

Noun

joker m (plural jokers, diminutive jokertje n)

1. joker (playing card)
2. any wild card or similar, even in non-card games

Derived terms

• voor joker staan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o.kœ?/, [d?o??.kœ?]

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. (card games) joker
2. (computing) wildcard
3. (on a game show) lifeline
4. (Scrabble) blank tile

See also

Further reading

• “joker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Alternative forms

• d?oker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.k?r/

Noun

joker m anim

1. (card games) joker

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. Alternative form of jóquer

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French joker, English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??o.k?r/

Noun

joker m (plural jokeri)

1. (card games) joker

Declension

English

Etymology

From Old English m?ma ("a mime") from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos, “imitator, actor”). Reinforced in Middle English by French mime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

mime (countable and uncountable, plural mimes)

1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
2. A pantomime actor.
3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
4. A performer of such a farce.
5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.

Related terms

• pantomime

Translations

Verb

mime (third-person singular simple present mimes, present participle miming, simple past and past participle mimed)

1. To mimic.
2. To act without words.
3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

Translations

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

See also

• lip-synch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mim/
• Rhymes: -im

Etymology 1

From Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos)

Noun

mime m (plural mimes)

1. pantomime actor, mime
2. pantomime

Derived terms

• mimer

Etymology 2

Verb

mime

1. first-person singular present indicative of mimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of mimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
5. second-person singular imperative of mimer

Anagrams

• emmi

Further reading

• “mime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Verb

mime

1. inflection of mimen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

mime

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

m?me

1. vocative singular of m?mus

Portuguese

Verb

mime

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of mimir
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of mimir

Spanish

Verb

mime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mimar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mimar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mimar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mimar.