Word Finder - dummy

definition

A silent person; a person who does not talk.

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• dumbie

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An unintelligent person.

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Don't be such a dummy!

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• dumbie

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A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

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Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

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To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

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• mannequin
• marionette

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A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.

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A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

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The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

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A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.

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The baby wants her dummy.

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A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

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A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

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The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.

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An unused parameter or value.

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If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

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A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

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A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.

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• juke

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To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

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The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.

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To feint.

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• juke

Why would Yancey have a dummy mail box?

Gabriel began to beat up the dummy again.

The fourth office is that of the deacons, who have to do with 1 " Tulchan," a calf-skin filled with straw, supposed to induce the cow to give milk freely; hence a term of contempt for one who is used as a dummy for the advantage of another.

Many suffered under this law, but the ultimate effect was to invest the press with new popularity, and very soon the newspapers conceived a device which effectually protected their literary staff, for they employed dummy editors whose sole function was to go to prison in lieu of the true editor.

If a young horse be well handled and accustomed to the dummy jockey, mounting it is not attended with much risk of resistance, although this should invariably be anticipated.

But the pope marked the intensity of his hatred by causing the dummy to be carved and dressed with such lifelike resemblance that he was almost able to persuade himself that his hated enemy was really consumed in the flames.

Gabriel returned to his dummy, beating it with renewed strength.

It was too early for the vamps to be in the gym, so she stripped down to her undershirt without changing into her sparring gear and began pounding into the dummy in front of her.

The mean level of nausea was recorded by patients after PC.6 acupressure and also after pressure at a dummy point.

Selecting the Reduce menu option will then write a unique set of voids to the Shelx INS file as dummy atoms.

He ran a dummy generator with just a pulley to save weight as well as a one-piece aluminum bonnet and cycle front wings.

Ugly, pubescent, often lower class and furnished with a regional accent the dummy is a crude technical caricature of the human body.

The title is taken from the 1945 Michael Redgrave supernatural chiller in which a ventriloquist is driven insane by his crazed dummy alter ego.

Dragging her feet across the creaking parquet floor around an old clothiers dummy, her mouth full of pins.

Gareth led the J. After a fairly cursory look at dummy I could see that prospects looked good.

At my table declarer should, at the point already reached, try a low club from hand, ducking in dummy.

You guys have been " sold a dummy " by your Renault dealers.

It was Jay King who with an outrageous dummy left the Shelford fullback Astin grabbing for thin air as he went in unopposed.

We repeat the of medicaid that eventual parity dummy however we are.

Wang Kiu applied the Tan sau hit from the wooden dummy to finish the fight fast.

As strange as it may seem now, Archie Andrews was a ventriloquists dummy that first hit the big time on Radio!

We saw a pickled Lennon who looked just like a wax dummy, but with lots of makeup!

We've got Wang, who's the Korean ventriloquist's dummy from Big Fish.

He opened it on Toby, who looked like a wee tailor's dummy in a three-piece gray suit.

We started with some polystyrene dummy cakes to get the right shape and then set out to make the actual fruitcakes.

Put your dummy back into your ugly gob and Get back inside Your Pram.

She babbles, gurgles, giggles, sucks on her bottle or dummy and cries when waking up.

There is a baby's dummy on the ground (an artificial nipple to keep a baby quiet ).

The RAF also dropped dummy parachutists and firework devices in a dummy airborne landing at Yvetot, some 30 miles North of Le Havre.

They then plonked the dummy down onto the sofa.

People who had taken sedatives for five consecutive nights were compared with others taking dummy pills.

Also, declarer has 3 spades and dummy has 4, so partner has a singleton.

However, after winning A, East can cash A and force dummy to ruff the third spade.

The aim of the body swerve is to dummy the defender into moving the wrong way.

The dummy end is undetectable from a standard end, but when you pull the table from a standard end, but when you pull the tab the whole ' fake ' end comes off.

Mhdx a dummy group health insurance lead telemarketing plan quot foster said compromises patient care.

Unable to reach dummy to draw West's last trump, he played a third heart.

She comes with a removable diaper, a super-soft two-piece sleeping outfit and a dummy that attaches magnetically to her mouth.

Starting with the two dummy variables less likely to these are the.

I had decided to do a piece working with a ventriloquist dummy looking like myself and to learn ventriloquism.

This thing of having a single ventriloquist with one small dummy comes from the late music hall era.

In the latest test, to destroy a dummy warhead fired from Alaska, the interception missile never even got off the ground.

She played five rounds of diamonds instead, ruffing the fifth round in dummy.

If he returns a spade you ruff in dummy, draw trumps and play a club to the ten and the contract is secure.

This name can be a module subroutine subprogram, a dummy procedure, or a secondary entry name.

The dummy end is undetectable from a standard end, but when you pull the tab the whole ' fake ' end comes off.

In one Dada show Grosz exhibited a tailor 's dummy dressed in an army uniform and topped off with a pig 's head.

Unable to reach dummy to draw West 's last trump, he played a third heart.

And because his face was not pale, but had that waxen bloom still upon it that belongs to a barber 's dummy.

Usually the bogus message provides a link for you to click on that will take you to a dummy site.