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dummy - a figure representing the human form |
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figure a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures"
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lay figure dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body
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mannequin,
manakin,
manikin,
mannikin,
form a life-size dummy used to display clothes
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ventriloquist's dummy a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice
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dummy - a person who does not talk |
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deaf-and-dumb person,
deaf-mute,
mute a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
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verb |
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dummy - make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be published" |
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create,
produce,
make create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
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adjektiv |
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dummy - having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation" |
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artificial,
unreal artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
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