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Word Meanings - IMPERSONATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.

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  • MIMICRY
    Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
  • MIMICKER
    An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits. (more info) 1. One who mimics; a mimic.
  • ACTOR
    1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
  • MIMIC
    One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. Burke.
  • MIMIC; MIMICAL
    Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. Note: Mimic often implies something droll or ludicrous, and is less dignified than imitative. Mimic
  • MIMICALLY
    In an imitative manner.
  • OLFACTOR
    A smelling organ; a nose.
  • EXACTOR
    One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
  • CALEFACTOR
    A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • REFRACTOR
    Anything that refracts; specifically:
  • REDACTOR
    One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.
  • MALEFACTOR
    1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
  • SATISFACTORY
    1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
  • OLFACTORY
    Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part
  • LACTORY
    Lactiferous. "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.
  • TRANSACTOR
    One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
  • SUBSTRACTOR
    1. One who subtracts. 2. A detractor; a slanderer. Shak.
  • FACTORIZE
    To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the
  • ENACTOR
    One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.

 

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