| 单词 | dummy |
| 释义 | dummy (once / 2139 pages) nadjv Have you ever seen an entertainer make a doll look like it’s talking? The entertainer is using a dummy — a doll made to look like a person. A dummy is a type of doll that looks like a person. Entertainers called ventriloquists can make dummies appear to talk. The automobile industry uses dummies in cars to study how safe cars are during a crash. A dummy can also be anything that looks real but doesn’t work: a fake. Actors in a play might use certain props that are dummies, such as a dummy laptop. Dummy is also an insult used to mean “an ignorant person.” WORD FAMILYdummy: dummied, dummies, dummying USAGE EXAMPLESCollege scout teams consist of scholarship players who are buried on the depth chart and walk-ons who volunteer to be tackling dummies. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Riley exhibited the proper form: lowering his shoulder, wrapping his arms around the dummy, then wrestling it to the ground. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The answer is that this was a pop-culture proxy war against Clinton, a dummy run. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a figure representing the human form Hypo|Hyper lay figure dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body form, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikina life-size dummy used to display clothes ventriloquist's dummya wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice figure a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) 2n an ignorant or foolish person Syn|Hyper boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead simple, simpleton a person lacking intelligence or common sense 3n a person who does not talk Syn|Hyper silent person deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute, mute a deaf person who is unable to speak 4n a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet Syn|Hyper blank, blank shell cartridge ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun 5adj having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function a dummy corporation Syn artificial, unreal contrived by art rather than nature 6v make a dummy of dummy up the books that are to be published Syn|Hyper dummy up create, make, produce create or manufacture a man-made product |
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