| 单词 | decoy |
| 释义 | decoy —decoyer, n. n. /dee"koy, di koy"/; v. /di koy"/, n. 1. a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like. 2. anything used as a lure. 3. a trained bird or other animal used to entice game into a trap or within gunshot. 4. an artificial bird, as a painted wooden duck, used for the same purpose. 5. a pond into which wild fowl are lured for capture. 6. an object capable of reflecting radar waves, used as a spurious aircraft, missile, chaff, etc., for the deception of radar detectors. v.t. 7. to lure by or as if by a decoy: They decoyed the ducks to an area right in front of the blind. v.i. 8. to become decoyed: Ducks decoy more easily than most other waterfowl. [1610-20; var. of coy (now dial.) < D (de) kooi (the) cage, MD coie < L cavea CAGE] Syn. 2. enticement, bait, inducement, allurement. |
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