pantomime

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime.

   “[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.”

2. isim The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
3. isim A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.

   “With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.”

4. isim The act of gesturing without speaking; a dumb-show, a mime.

   “A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.”

5. fiil To make (a gesture) without speaking.

   “I pantomimed steering a car; he understood, and tossed the keys to me.”

6. fiil To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.