Crossword clues for dummy
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dummy \Dum"my\, a. [See Dumb.]
Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
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Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
Dummy car. See under Car.
Dummy \Dum"my\, n.; pl. Dummies.
One who is dumb.
--H. Smith.A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
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.
(Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
A thick-witted person; a dolt. [Colloq.]
(Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
(Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
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A floating barge connected with a pier.
--Knight.To play dummy, to play the exposed or dummy hand in cards. The partner of the dummy plays it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "mute person," from dumb (adj.) + -y (3). Extended by 1845 to "figure representing a person." Used in card games (originally whist) since 1736. Meaning "dolt, blockhead" is from 1796.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A silent person; a person who does not talk. 2 An unintelligent person. 3 A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet. 4 Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person. 5 A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one. 6 (context AU UK NZ English) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier. (from 20th c.) 7 (context card games chiefly bridge English) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player. 8 (context UK English) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint. vb. 1 To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality. 2 To feint
WordNet
adj. having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"
n. a person who does not talk [syn: silent person]
an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dope, boob, booby, pinhead]
a figure representing the human form
a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet [syn: blank, blank shell]
[also: dummied]
Wikipedia
Dummy may refer to:
Dummy is a 2002 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Greg Pritikin. It stars Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga, and Jared Harris. The film had its premiere on February 21, 2002, and was released in a limited release in the United States on September 12, 2003 by Artisan Entertainment.
A dummy or feint is an association football, rugby league, rugby union and Australian rules football term used to refer to a particular player deceiving the opposition into believing he is going to pass, shoot, move in a certain direction, or receive the ball and instead doing something entirely different, thus gaining an advantage.
Dummy is the name of two fictional supervillains in DC Comics. The first Dummy debuted in Leading Comics #1 (Winter 1941).
He is not to be confused with Scarface, the ventriloquist dummy/ alter-ego operated by Arnold Wesker.
Dummy is the debut album by English band Portishead, released in the UK on 22 August 1994 on Go! Beat.
The album received critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Although it achieved only modest chart success overseas, it peaked at number 2 on the UK Album Chart and saw two of its three singles reach number 13. The album was certified gold in 1997 and has sold two million copies in Europe. The album was certified double platinum in the UK in 1996, for sales exceeding 600,000 copies.
Dummy was a popular nickname for the following deaf Major League Baseball players:
- Dummy Deegan (1874–1957) a pitcher for two games
- Ed Dundon (1859-1893), an American Association pitcher credited with being the first deaf player in Major League Baseball history
- Dummy Hoy (1862-1961), a deaf center fielder
- Dummy Leitner (1871-1960), a deaf pitcher
- Dummy Lynch (1926-1978), a second baseman
- Dummy Murphy (1886–1962), a shortstop
- Dummy Stephenson (1869–1924), an outfielder
- Dummy Taylor (1875-1958), a deaf-mute pitcher
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Usage examples of "dummy".
Even Budda would not have known the RPF was a dummy front - otherwise he would not have been after Murray.
Then, with Durand clicking at the dummy box that shielded the real secret, the robot began its slow march into the theater.
The governor who owns the house sends for me, has me show him that I can suck right, and sends me back under the dummy.
You need gis, gear, belts, wood floors, mirrors, heavy bags, speed bags, makiwaras, mats, Wing Chun dummies, shinais, bos and sais, dressings rooms with showers.
Straw dummies of Brienne and Lamoignon were burned night after night, and on the Pont Neuf anyone not bowing to that popular totem, the statue of Henri IV, was manhandled.
They have dummy explosives on hand to teach rookies recognition and handling.
San Francisco had written to warn him that the Railroad might be able to take advantage of a technicality, and by pretending that neither Quien Sabe nor Los Muertos were included in the appeal, attempt to put its dummy buyers in possession of the two ranches before the Supreme Court handed down its decision.
The pad was two stacks of mattresses roped together side by side, twenty in all to cushion the fall not of the dummy but of Tosca, when she leaped off the battlement in the end.
We even had dummy messages sent to Captain Richard from Admiral Tunner through Captain Gray, so Richard would be lulled into thinking another officer knew about the unidentified submarine.
At their last meeting they had fitted the second dress--which turned out to be a vapory summer house-frock or morning wrapper--over the dummy, and opinions were divided as to its equality with the first.
Seen beside Yeddo himself, the dummy shape was all the more remarkable.
The fire blazed and Maxie crouched on his haunches beside the dummy, laid his rifle beside him, pulled a strip of biltong from his pouch and started to chew on it.
And ten-year-old Marga with those braids and that face that rose like a fat full moon, what gave her the right to look upon Oskar as a dummy to be dressed, combed, brushed, adjusted, and lectured at by the hour?
She interrupted him by rushing at him as you would rush at a tackling dummy, surrounding him, beginning to soak the suede jacket with all those overdue tears.
Before Vasquez dummied up, he told me Peaty always rubbed himthe wrong way.