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US
/ˈdəmi/
]
[ UK /dˈʌmi/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌmi/ ]
NOUN
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a figure representing the human form
- a person who does not talk
ADJECTIVE
-
having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function
a dummy corporation
VERB
-
make a dummy of
dummy up the books that are to be published
How To Use dummy In A Sentence
- We stood our ground, revised the dummy a couple of times and appointed a printer.
- Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
- This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
- Its author believes that Border's bankruptcy and massive store shutdown is a result of the dummying down of books and America's ultimate good taste. Laura Munson: Books Without Borders
- I have seen everything you listed except the department store dummy, but would add paint cans, freon cannisters, old TV's, and other stuff that are hazmat if you try to take them to the dump! One Trigger, Or Two?
- One plausible scenario, he said, was that he had indeed threatened the cops with a dummy gun.
- Or the complete opposite - you table an awful dummy and partner makes an overtrick. Times, Sunday Times
- So over the next year, she pored over magazines, drafted an editorial plan and put together a dummy issue from published magazine pages and pictures that she liked.
- Slowly, Dummy regains both his voice and his confidence, and finally, in a fairy-tale ending, even his identity when King Richard recognizes him as his long-lost godson.
- In one study, led by Dr. Alejandro Hoberman of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, nearly 300 infected toddlers were given ten days of treatment with either dummy pills or an antibiotic called amoxicillin-clavulanate. Reuters: Top News