To mime is also the term given to a singer who performs to a pre-recorded song and only pretends to sing live. It is usually limited to performances by Pop music artists.
In ancient Greece and ancient Rome, a mime is a farcical drama characterized by mimicry and ludicrous representations of characters, or the script for such a performance.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or MIME is an Internet standard specifying message formats for transmission of different types of data by electronic mail.
