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Noun

  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
  3. :* Don't be such a dummy!
  4. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist.
  5. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
  6. :* To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
  7. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
  8. :* The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
  9. In the Context of A pacifier.
  10. :* The baby wants its dummy.
  11. The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
  12. A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feints.
  13. A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
  14. :* The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
  15. An unused parameter or value.
  16. :* If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.


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External links

  • http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.php


Translations

Verb

{{en-verb|dummies|dummying|dummied}}

  1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
  2. : The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.


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Category:Babies

fr:dummy io:dummy pt:dummy ru:dummy simple:dummy ta:dummy vi:dummy tr:dummy zh:dummy

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dummy \Dum"my\, a. [See Dumb.]
1. Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
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2. Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
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Dummy car. See under Car.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dummy \Dum"my\, n.; pl. Dummies.
1. One who is dumb. --H. Smith.
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2. A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain
what its exterior indicates.
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3. An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a
substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which
clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy
used to show the size of the future book, etc.
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4. (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action;
a sham character.
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5. A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
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6. (Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and,
hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy
car.
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7. (Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three
persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
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8. A floating barge connected with a pier. --Knight.
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To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards.
The partner of the dummy plays it. Dumose
WordNet dummy
adj : having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to
function; "a dummy corporation"
n 1: a person who does not talk [syn: silent person]
2: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dope, boob,
booby, pinhead]
3: a figure representing the human form
4: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[syn: blank, blank shell]
v : make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be
published" [syn: dummy up]
[also: dummied]
Moby Dictionary
Boeotian , Charlie McCarthy , Intertype , Linotype , Monotype ,
a nobody , a nothing , ace , adherent , advocate , affected , agent ,
alter ego , alternate , alternative , amicus curiae , analogy , ancilla ,
apocryphal , appliance , artificial , ass , assumed , attorney , backup ,
backup man , bastard , best bower , block , blockhead , bogus , bower ,
brummagem , burlesque , bust , cards , carving , champion , change ,
changeling , cheat , cipher , clay model , clinquant , clod , clubs ,
cold-type typesetting , colorable , colored , common man , comparison ,
composing , composing stick , composition , computerized typesetting ,
contrivance , copy , counterfeit , counterfeited , creature , deaf-mute ,
deck , deputy , deuce , device , diamonds , dimwit , disciple , distorted ,
doll , dolly , dolt , donkey , dope , double , dressed up , dud , dullard ,
dullhead , dumb cluck , dumbbell , dummkopf , dunce , dupe , duplication ,
embellished , embroidered , equal , equivalent , ersatz , exchange ,
executive officer , exponent , face cards , facsimile , factitious ,
fake , faked , fakement , false , falsified , fantoccini , feigned ,
fictitious , fictive , figure , figurehead , figurine , fill-in , flunky ,
flush , follower , fool , forgery , frame-up , fraud , front , front man ,
full house , furniture , galley chase , garbled , ghost , ghostwriter ,
gillie , gingerbread man , go-between , goon , gowk , hand , handmaid ,
handmaiden , hanger-on , hearts , henchman , hoax , hollow man ,
hot-metal typesetting , idiot , ignoramus , illegitimate , imitation ,
implement , imposition , impostor , insignificancy , instrument ,
interagent , intermediary , intermediate , intermedium , jack , jackal ,
jackstraw , jobbernowl , joker , junk , junky , justification , king ,
knave , knockoff , lackey , lackwit , lamebrain , lay figure , layout ,
left bower , lever , lieutenant , lightweight , likeness , line of type ,
little fellow , little guy , locum , locum tenens , looby , loon ,
make-believe , makeshift , man , man of straw , man-made , manikin ,
mannequin , mannikin , marionette , mechanism , mediator , mediocrity ,
medium , metaphor , metonymy , midwife , minion , mock , mock-up , model ,
monument , moron , mute , myrmidon , nebbish , next best thing , niais ,
nincompoop , ninny , ninnyhammer , nitwit , nobody , nobody one knows ,
noddy , nominal head , nonentity , nothing , nullity , numskull ,
obscurity , organ , pacifier , pack , pair , paranymph , paraphrase ,
parody , paste , pawn , personnel , perverted , phony , photocomposition ,
photosetting , phototypesetter , phototypesetting machine ,
picture cards , pilot model , pinch , pinch hitter , pinchbeck ,
pip-squeak , playing cards , plaything , pleader , portrait bust ,
pretended , procurator , provisional , proxy , pseudo , punk , puppet ,
pushover , put , put-on , put-up job , quasi , queen , queer , quoin ,
relief , replacement , replica , representation , representative ,
reprint , reproduction , reserve , reserves , ringer , rip-off , round ,
royal flush , rubber , ruff , runt , sample , satellite , scarecrow ,
scrub , sculpture , second in command , second string , secondary ,
self-styled , servant , setting , sham , shoddy , shrimp , sign ,
simpleton , simulacrum , simulated , simulation , singleton , slave ,
slug , small fry , small potato , small potatoes , snowman , so-called ,
soi-disant , spades , spare , spares , spurious , squirt , squit ,
stand-in , statuary , statue , statuette , stooge , stopgap , straight ,
stupid , sub , substituent , substitute , substitution , succedaneum ,
superseder , supplanter , supposititious , surrogate , swindle ,
sycophant , symbol , synecdoche , synthetic , tentative , thickwit ,
thing of naught , third string , thug , tin , tinsel , titivated , token ,
tool , toy , travesty , trey , trick , trifle , trump , twisted ,
typesetting , typesetting machine , unauthentic , understudy ,
ungenuine , unnatural , unreal , utility , utility man , utility player ,
vehicle , version , vicar , vicar general , vicarious , vice ,
vice-president , vice-regent , vicegerent , votary , warped ,
wax figure , waxwork , whiffet , whippersnapper , whited sepulcher ,
witling , wood carving , wood model , yes-man , zero


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