Word Finder - meme

definition

Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

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• culturgen

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Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.

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A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.

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it’s a meme degree

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To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.

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to meme into existence

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To create and use humorous memes.

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To joke around.

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I thought you guys were just meming.

Someone probably saw this, copied the idea, and so began to spread the meme.

Perhaps this carnival could start a blogosphere meme instead?

I like to think he would be pleased with how his own great meme has evolved.

Would you be interested in a brand new photo meme?

Bartholdi, stands in front of the castle; and in the Place d'Armes is the bronze group "Quand Meme" by Antonin Mercie, in memory of Thiers and of Colonel Pierre Marie Aristide Denfert-Rochereau (1823-1878), commandant of the place during the siege.

A deviant mutated standard meme generated from within the territory is easily suppressed due to the already open-minded nature of the grazer.

I shall explain how and why memes group together into co-adapted meme complexes, one of which is the self.

Design Meme is a cutting edge and edgy local Guelph web design service created by Stuart Robertson, who also has an affiliation with the University of Guelph and even served as the web master for their award winning website.

In the meantime, have a musical meme, usual rules.

The term meme first appeared in 1976, in Richard Dawkins's best-selling book The Selfish Gene.

The term ' meme ' was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 bestseller The Selfish Gene.

You can share these with your friends and help start a new meme (that's geektalk for "idea that spreads across the web faster than the common cold").

You can see the "meme" spread throughout your friends' profiles, and regardless of whether the results are silly, meaningless, or deep, it helps increase the feeling of community.

The grazer tends to get quickly re-infected with the dominant standard meme for the given territory.

He quotes Fenelon and Addison, "deux esprits polis et doux, de la meme famille litteraire," as expressing their admiration for the inimitable beauty and naturalness of one of his scenes.

His impromptu speech became an Internet meme overnight.

In 1746 he published his treatise Les Beaux-Arts adults a un meme Principe, an attempt to find a unity among the various theories of beauty and taste, and his views were widely accepted.