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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doll
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
doll's house
kewpie doll
rag doll
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
▪ Fifi had already decided on her baby doll and Carla was going through her private box of jewelry and mementos.
▪ A few minutes later, as she continued this type of play the baby doll got scared while sleeping.
▪ Ben will have to be told that if he takes his baby doll outside he will be ostracized.
rag
▪ This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.
▪ Maddened by the limp rag doll banging against his legs, he veered to the left.
▪ This was how he remembered her, rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death.
▪ He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll.
▪ The second was propped, ungainly as a rag doll, against the far wall.
▪ She looked like a rag doll.
▪ Can't you see how obscene it is to get him dressed up and wheel him around like a big rag doll?
▪ That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed, limp and helpless as a rag doll.
■ VERB
dress
▪ As a child she preferred playing games with boys to dressing up dolls.
▪ She was engaged in dressing a doll for the bazaar which loomed nearer and nearer.
▪ You ought to be dressing dolls Like other sisters.
hold
▪ She never held her doll in her arms as a little girl.
▪ Despite other examples around her and recommendations, Monica held her dolls and children as she had been held as an infant.
▪ Her own four daughters held their dolls in a like manner when they first began to play with them.
play
▪ It plays with dolls but can not get interested.
▪ She kept to herself, and played with her Barbie doll during break.
▪ After the film, each child was left alone in a room to play with a Bobo doll.
▪ Since fathers rarely have experience baby-sitting or playing with dolls, most lack the familiarity with babies that their wives have.
▪ For example, she plays with dolls and pretends they are real people.
▪ She would play dolls with another girl, for example.
▪ In later years I always played with the doll alone, never sharing her with my friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Cabbage Patch doll dries on the clothesline.
▪ During the intervening seven years, he has become replacement therapy for little girls who have just donated their dolls to Oxfam.
▪ I done buried people with Bibles, canes, crutches, guitars, radios, baby dolls....
▪ Other nights, I listened to pneumatic tubes, and I was a doll on a shelf in a cavernous department store.
▪ Then he took out one of those dolls, each piece of which unscrews to reveal a smaller doll within.
▪ Then she got some toy bricks and built a little house for the mummy doll and a little house for the daddy doll.
▪ This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I doll myself up at dusk.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
doll

doll \doll\ (d[o^]l), n. [A contraction of Dorothy; or less prob. an abbreviation of idol; or cf. OD. dol a whipping top, D. dollen to rave, and E. dull.]

  1. a small, usually flexible figure representing a human being, especially a toy baby for a little girl; a child's puppet.

  2. an attractive woman or girl. [slang]

    Come along and be my party doll.
    --(The first words of the song)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doll

1550s, endearing name for a female pet or a mistress; originally a familiar form of fem. proper name Dorothy (q.v.). The -l- for -r- substitution in nicknames is common in English: compare Hal for Harold, Moll for Mary, Sally for Sarah, etc. Attested from 1640s as colloquial for "slattern;" sense of "child's toy baby" is c.1700. Transferred back to living beings 1778 in sense of "pretty, silly woman."

doll

1867, "to pet, indulge," from doll (n.). Usually with up. Meaning "to dress up" is from 1906, American English. Related: Dolled; dolling.

Wiktionary
doll

n. 1 A toy in the form of a human. 2 (context informal English) Used to refer to or address a woman. 3 (context Australia English) A term of endearment (ie. darling). vb. (context intransitive followed by "up" English) To cause to be more beautiful of attractive. See also doll up.

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WordNet
doll

  1. n. a small replica of a person; used as a toy [syn: dolly]

  2. informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame, wench, skirt, chick, bird]

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Wikipedia
Doll (disambiguation)

A doll is a model of a human being, often a children's toy.

Doll or The Doll may also refer to:

Doll (locomotive)

Doll is a gauge steam locomotive based at the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway in Bedfordshire.

Doll (surname)

Doll is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Andrea Doll (born 1940), American politician
  • Bob Doll (1919–1959), American basketball player
  • Charles Fitzroy Doll (1850–1929), British architect
  • Henri George Doll (1902–1991), French scientist
  • Henry W. Doll (born 1870), New York politician
  • Richard Doll (1912–2005), English biostatician
  • Thomas Doll (born 1966), German footballer and coach
Doll

A doll is a model of a human being, often used as a toy for children. Dolls have traditionally been used in magic and religious rituals throughout the world, and traditional dolls made of materials such as clay and wood are found in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. The earliest documented dolls go back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. The use of dolls as toys was documented in Greece around 100 AD. They have been made as crude, rudimentary playthings as well as elaborate art. Modern doll manufacturing has its roots in Germany, going back to the 15th century. With industrialization and new materials such as porcelain and plastic, dolls were increasingly mass-produced. During the 20th century, dolls became increasingly popular as collectibles.

Doll (manga)

is a science fiction josei (targeted towards women) manga by Mitsukazu Mihara. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Feel Young from 1998 to 2002, the thirty-three chapters of Doll were collected into six bound volumes by Shodensha and published from August 2000 to August 2002. Taking place in the future, the plot focuses on relationships between people and the eponymous androids; the series has an overarching plot that follows an illegal reprogrammer of Dolls and his revenge against the corporation which creates them. One of the characters, the corporation that manufactors the Dolls, and the concept of the Dolls appeared earlier in Mihara's short manga (1995), later collected in IC in a Sunflower (1997).

In 2003, Tokyopop licensed the series for an English-language translations in North America and the United Kingdom, publishing the series from August 2004 to October 2005. The series has received several positive reviews from English-language critics, and the first volume placed in ICv2's list of the top 100 best-selling graphic novels for July 2004. In 2011, Tokyopop's North American branch stopped publication and returned its manga licenses.

Doll (Scandal song)

"Doll" is a Japanese-language song by girl pop rock band Scandal. The song begins "Koisuru otome wa utsukushii to iu shoumei dekinai genjitsu / Akogare idaiteru bakari atashi kirei ni kazarareta doll".

It was the major debut single (fourth overall) released by the band, released in two versions: a limited CD+DVD edition and a regular CD-only edition. The title track was used as the October and November 2008 opening theme for TBS's "Rank Oukoku", as well as the October 2008 ending theme for Tokyo MX's "Break Poing". The single reached #26 on the Oricon weekly chart and charted for five weeks, selling 12,572 copies. The DVD includes the karaoke PV for "Doll" with cheers from Scandal.

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Usage examples of "doll".

Cushions and bedclothes were scattered everywhere, colourful animatic dolls waddled around, either laughing or repeating their catch phrases.

They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically costumed dolls.

In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.

In this part of it, long rows of dolls sat on their frilly bottoms, with chubbily outstretched arms, between walls of dusty turquoise.

The diplomats go home, and they can pack up their codes with their dolls and take them home.

Once across Blanchard, Cutty headed into the diner and dropped into a booth like a rag doll suddenly stuffed with lead shot.

Pauline called one night to say she and Daniel were going to see Mark Morris, how about a double dater On the night of the performance, Mattie got all dolled up in her fanciest vintage dress.

Pentle holds out a digicam and thumbs through the images of the ladies and the three children, all of them staring out from the screen like little smeared dolls.

In the end, though, what Montesino had not foreseen was that her failure to charge Doil with at least one other double murder out of a presumed total of twelve 50 Arthur Halley serial killings would create a post-trial impression especially among anti-capital-punishment crusaders that some doubt existed overall, even extending to the one case where Doll was found guilty and sentenced to death.

It all seemed to go quite well, and besides I can be human again, sometimes, and play with my little memories of Blaze and Sphere and Durancy, push them around like dolls.

Lying among the shoes were effigies of Daniel and Charles miniature dolls of the magicians.

Her mind seemed to fall about inside like one of those equilibrist dolls which you push one way and it keeps swinging back at you.

Though finding, as we do, that the little boy enjoys playing with his dolls as his sister does, we refrain from buying dolls for him, and may indeed, underestimating the importance of human fatherhood, declare that dolls are beneath the dignity of a boy though good enough for his sister.

Eyes wide with anticipation, the child tore off the wrappings to uncover a doll dressed in a floaty sari of sparkling green gauze.

Patrol Sergeant Eaton Freedman looked up miserably from a desk that looked like doll furniture with him sitting at it.