Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DUMMY
DUMMY
Definitions of DUMMY
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
- A stupid person.
- (dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- (card games, chiefly, bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- (sports, mostly, rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports) To feint.
- (AAVE, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- (AU, NZ, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby. [from 20th c.]
- (US, slang) Extremely.
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Examples of Using DUMMY in a Sentence
- For example, individuals watching a ventriloquist will perceive the voice as coming from the dummy since they are able to see the dummy mouth the words.
- POLAR III and POLAR II, a pedestrian test dummy created by Honda, used to study pedestrian injuries in road traffic accidents.
- A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government Puppet states have nominal sovereignty, except that a foreign power effectively exercises control through economic or military support.
- Nazi propaganda took advantage to suggest that the Poles attacked intentionally since they had believed the Germans still had the dummy tanks permitted by the Versailles Treaty's restrictions.
- This effect is often created using a technique known as dummy head recording, wherein a mannequin head is fitted with a microphone in each ear.
- Ventriloquism is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) speaks in such a way that it looks like their voice is coming from a different location, usually through a puppet known as a "dummy".
- In the early part of the century, the Bernice and Northwestern Railroad Company, also known as "the dummy line", headed northwesterly toward Summerfield to haul in the logs from the lumber camps along the way.
- The term "dummy variable" is also sometimes used for a bound variable (more commonly in general mathematics than in computer science), but this should not be confused with the identically named but unrelated concept of dummy variable as used in statistics, most commonly in regression analysis.
- In some instances, the persona of the puppeteer is also an important feature, as with ventriloquist's dummy performers, in which the puppeteer and the human figure-styled puppet appear onstage together, and in theatre shows like Avenue Q.
- His father nicknamed him Bocephus (after Grand Ole Opry comedian Rod Brasfield's ventriloquist dummy).
- Gummo was the first of his brothers to make his debut on stage, pretending to be a dummy in an act with his uncle Henry Shean (né Heinemann Schoenberg), the brother of Al Shean, in 1899.
- He was asked to leave after he climbed to the top of a building and, after a crowd gathered, threw off a dummy, making them think he had jumped.
- A crash test dummy, or simply dummy, is a full-scale anthropomorphic test device (ATD) that simulates the dimensions, weight proportions and articulation of the human body during a traffic collision.
- The Hong Kong wooden dummy is a wall mounted version of the Wing Chun Wooden Dummy that hangs using two wooden slats through the body of the wooden dummy.
- Some jurisdictions, sometimes called tax havens, have a reputation for lax or corrupt standards in bank licensing, granting a license, for example, to shell companies, or to companies with nominee directors, or with dummy shareholders, etc.
- It appears like a simplification of contract bridge such that a skilled spades player can learn bridge relatively quickly, the major additional rules being dynamic trump, the auction, dummy play, and rubber scoring.
- A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles.
- The final version of Operation Pastel incorporated notional airborne landings, using dummy parachutists similar to those used on D-Day, in the interior of Kyūshū the day before the actual landings were to take place.
- For example, after entering "price" then tabbing and entering "qty", the machine could automatically space through a dummy field, calculate the $amount on the way and then continue to print it out.
- Codification and re-specification - Make adjustments to the raw data so it is compatible with statistical techniques and with the objectives of the research - examples: assigning numbers, consistency checks, substitutions, deletions, weighting, dummy variables, scale transformations, scale standardization.
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