English
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�mi|-�mi
Noun
en-noun|dummies
- A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- An unintelligent person.
#:* Don't be such a dummy!
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
#:* To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
#:* The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
- context|Australia|UK A pacifier.
#:* The baby wants its dummy.
- bridge The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feints.
- linguistics A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
#:* The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
- complang An unused parameter or value.
#:* If <code>flag1</code> is false, the other parameters are dummies.
Synonyms
(Something made to look like a person) mannequin
(Something to calm a baby) pacifier italbrac|US, soother italbrac|Canada
Derived terms
dummy bid
dummy bidder
Related terms
dumb
See also
dud
fake
feint
External links
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.php
Translations
trans-top|something constructed with the size and form of a human
Finnish: nukke
trans-mid
Italian: manichino m
trans-bottom
trans-top|for a baby
Dutch: fopspeen, speen m
Finnish: tutti
French: suce
German: Schnuller m
trans-mid
Greek: �ι�ίλα (pipila) f
Italian: ciuccio m
Mandarin: 奶� (n�izu�)
trans-bottom
trans-top|an unintelligent person
Finnish: tyhmä, pölkkypää
trans-mid
Italian: stupido m, it|scemo m
trans-bottom
Verb
en-verb|dummies|dummying|dummied
#To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
#: The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
Derived terms
dummy out
dummy up
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