Crossword clues for puppet
puppet
- A person who is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- A doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body
- Intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
- Punch, for one
- Marionette - poodle
- Perhaps Judy’s young dog, much-liked
- Initially pop up with favourite dummy
- Miss Piggy, e.g
- You might have a hand in it
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puppet \Pup"pet\, n. [OE. popet, OF. poupette; akin to F. poup['e]e a doll, probably from L. puppa, pupa, a girl, doll, puppet. Cf. Poupeton, Pupa, Pupil, Puppy.] [Written also poppet.]
A small image in the human form; a doll.
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A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance.
--Pope. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
--Sir W. Scott.-
(Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Puppet master. Same as Puppetman.
Puppet play, a puppet show.
Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets.
Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires.
Puppet valve, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of Plunger pump, and Safety valve, under Plunger, and Safety.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"doll moved by strings or wires" (later applied to puppets in glove form), 1530s, later form of Middle English popet "doll" (c.1300; see poppet), from Old French popette "little doll, puppet," diminutive of popee "doll, puppet" (13c., Modern French poupée), from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin pupa "girl; doll" (see pupil (n.1)).\n
\nMetaphoric extension to "one whose actions are manipulated by another" first recorded 1540s (as poppet). Puppet show attested from 1650s, earlier puppet-play (1550s). Puppet government is attested from 1884 (in reference to Egypt).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove. 2 (lb en figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another. 3 (lb en obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll. 4 (lb en engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
WordNet
n. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer [syn: marionette]
a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, tool]
a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers
Wikipedia
Puppet is a 1957 Argentine film directed by Román Viñoly Barreto.
In computing, Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration.
Puppet is produced by Puppet Labs, founded by Luke Kanies in 2005. It is written in Ruby and released as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL) until version 2.7.0 and the Apache License 2.0 after that.
A puppet is an inanimate object, often resembling some type of human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses movements of her hands, arms, or control devices such as rods or strings to move the body, head, limbs, and in some cases the mouth and eyes of the puppet. The puppeteer often speaks in the voice of the character of the puppet, and then synchronizes the movements of the puppet's mouth with this spoken part. The actions, gestures and spoken parts acted out by the puppeteer with the puppet are typically used in storytelling. Puppetry is a very ancient form of theatre which dates back to the 5th century BC in Ancient Greece. There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use. They can be extremely complex or very simple in their construction.
The simplest puppets are finger puppets, which are tiny puppets that fit onto a single finger, and sock puppets, which are formed from a sock and operated by inserting one's hand inside the sock, with the opening and closing of the hand simulating the movement of the puppet's "mouth". A hand puppet is controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet and moves the puppet around ( Punch and Judy puppets are familiar examples of hand puppets). A "live-hand puppet" is similar to a hand puppet but is larger and requires two puppeteer for each puppet. Marionettes are a much more complicated type of puppet; they are suspended and controlled by a number of strings connected to the head, back and limbs, plus sometimes a central rod attached to a control bar held from above by the puppeteer.
A rod puppet is constructed around a central rod secured to the head. A shadow puppet is a cut-out figure held between a source of light and a translucent screen. Bunraku puppets are a type of Japanese wood-carved puppet. A Ventriloquist's Dummy is a human-shaped puppet operated by a ventriloquist performer's hand. Carnival puppets are large puppets, typically bigger than a human, designed to be part of a large spectacle or parade.
A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated by a puppeteer.
Puppet may also refer to:
- Hand puppet, a type of puppet controlled by the hand(s) that occupies the interior of the puppet
- Puppetry, a form of theatre or performance which involves the manipulation of puppets
- Puppet (software), an open-source tool for managing the configuration of computer systems
- Puppet state, a nominal sovereignty controlled effectively by a foreign power
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bid, a conventional bid in the card game contract bridge
- Sock puppet, a puppet made from a sock
- Sockpuppet (Internet), an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community
Puppet is a privately held information technology (IT) automation software company based in Portland, Oregon.
Usage examples of "puppet".
The prose of Saikaku, the puppet plays of Chikamatsu, and the poems of Basho were resuscitated, annotated, and made available to a wide reading public.
Too bad for him that Benet was already my puppet when he came to confess his secret to his Prince and Master!
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.
Traditional theater was removed from preperformance censorship in mid-1947, beginning with Bunraku puppet theater in May, followed by Kabuki in June, and Noh in September.
This organ appeared to be a replica of the one outside the Rembrandt, with the same garish colour scheme, multi-coloured canopy and identically dressed puppets dancing at the end of their elasticized strings, although this machine was clearly inferior, mechanically and musically, to the Rembrandt one.
The idea that the elaihim could take over the freewill of any human who was close to them and make them dance to their tune like so many puppets was a sorry prospect for his species.
We went home, where I ate tuna out of a can while she wrote a poem using the rhythms of the gamelan, about shadow puppets and the gods of chance.
I lay fingering the bruises blooming on my cheek, shading from purple to green, watching the shadows of the pines behind the curtain, dancing in the wind like Balinese shadow puppets behind a screen, moving to gamelan music.
And so, with the father two open mouths away, Aaron pictures Jesus as a low-budget marionette, standing between two cardboard pillars, preaching to an audience of hand puppets with googly eyes.
They will have before them not only the visible and human puppets, but the Church, the Inquisition, the Feudal System, with divine inspiration always beating against their too inelastic limits: all more terrible in their dramatic force than any of the little mortal figures clanking about in plate armor or moving silently in the frocks and hoods of the order of St Dominic.
At the core of the Tycho problem was the fact that no one save Ysanne Isard knew if Tycho was her puppet or not.
The abbot himself, Brother Junco, was so smitten by the vision of her that he left the order and became yet another absinthe-swilling puppet performance artist in the underbelly of London.
Miss Mahan jerked her eyes back to the beautiful child, feeling like a puppet herself.
It would have done me good to launch some objurgation against the precious little puppet, within doors, but this delicacy forbade.
Motownishly behind him, and other puppets bouncing in tempo on- and offstage as the script requires.