English Dictionary

dummy

/ˈdʌmi/

noun

(dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk. / A stupid person. / A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

He was known as the dummy because he rarely spoke.

意味（1）

(dated) A silent person; a person who does not talk.

Coordinate term: mute

意味（2）

A stupid person.

Don't be such a dummy!

意味（3）

A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.

意味（6）

A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

意味（7）

(Australia, UK, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.

The baby wants her dummy.

意味（8）

(card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

意味（9）

(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

The pronoun it in It's a mystery why this happened is a dummy.

意味（10）

(programming) An unused parameter or value.

If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.

意味（11）

(sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

意味（12）

(sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.

Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.

意味（13）

(attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.

a dummy calf, lamb, or foal