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pantomime
  1. (now rare) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. [from 17th c.]
  2. (historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work. [from 17th c.]
  3. (Britain) 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. [from 18th c.]
  4. Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime. [from 18th c.]
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “MacMillan, like Balanchine, deplored the use of pantomime to convey plot and relationships.”
      “It celebrates a teenage girl named Hellas, who had worked as a pantomime dancer in the Julio-Claudian or slightly later period, and was memorialized as such by her proud father Sotericus.”
      “Freksa himself had written a stage pantomime, Sumurun, which was staged by Max Reinhardt in 1910.”
pantograph
  1. A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid.
  2. A pattern printed on a document to reduce the ease of photocopying.
  3. (rail transport) A similarly-formed conductive device, now usually Z-shaped, that collects electric current from overhead lines for trains and trams.
  4. Synonyms:
panto
  1. (Britain, informal) Short form of pantomime
  2. (rail transport, informal) Short form of pantograph
pantography
  1. A general description; an entire view of an object.
pantomimer
pantomimist
  1. One who engages in pantomime.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In 1914 when Chaplin entered movies, he was an English pantomimist unknown to American audiences.”
      “He proved a skilled pantomimist, especially in his depiction of the death of John Dillinger.”
      “The modern clown, acrobat, magician, and pantomimist was produced by the union of the jester and the minstrel.”
pantomimists
pantomimers
  1. plural of pantomimer
pantographs
  1. plural of pantograph
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Excepting the pantographs and the lazy tongs, which could be purchased commercially, most of the rod and bar systems were the extemporisations of individual engineers.”
      “High level access is provided on lines 9 and 10 for servicing of equipment boxes and pantographs.”
      “Numatic International Limited makes vacuum cleaners in Chard, and Brecknell Willis, a railway engineering company on the A30, makes pantographs.”
pantomimes
pantos
  1. plural of panto
  2. Examples:
    1. “Song and dance is how Catherine Zeta-Jones made her first appearances in school shows and pantos.”
      “Simon is now several years and several pantos down the road from his 1984 debut as a chorus dancer.”
      “In Glasgow, pantos are a series of song and dance numbers strung together with a bit of patter.”
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