Main Difference
The main difference between Mime and Clown is that the someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or performance art and Clown is a comic performer.
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Mime
A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, “imitator, actor”) is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. Miming involves acting out a story through body motions, without the use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a seamless character in a film or sketch.
Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell’arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. Étienne Decroux, a pupil of his, was highly influenced by this and started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods.
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Clown
Clowns are comic performers who employ slapstick or similar types of physical comedy, often in a mime style.
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Mime (noun)
A form of acting without words; pantomime
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Mime (noun)
A pantomime actor
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Mime (noun)
A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce
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Mime (noun)
A performer of such a farce
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Mime (noun)
A person who mimics others in a comical manner
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Mime (verb)
To mimic.
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Mime (verb)
To act without words.
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Mime (verb)
To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.
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Clown (noun)
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
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Clown (noun)
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
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Clown (noun)
A stupid person.
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Clown (noun)
A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
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Clown (noun)
One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
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Clown (verb)
To act in a silly or playful fashion.
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Clown (noun)
a comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up
“a circus clown”
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Clown (noun)
a playful, extrovert person
“Martin was always the class clown”
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Clown (noun)
a foolish or incompetent person
“we need a serious government, not a bunch of clowns”
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Clown (noun)
an unsophisticated country person; a rustic.
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Clown (verb)
behave in a comical or playful way
“Harvey clowned around pretending to be a dog”