(v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
(n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
(n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
(n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
(n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(2) Sialoresponsin is a receptor "decoy" that inhibits neuraminidase.
(3) With Mitrovic’s decoy run having deceived Neil’s defence the Spanish striker advanced only to find his initial shot blocked by Olsson.
(4) The most effective decoys were M. cornuarietis and H. caribaeum, both of which caused experimental infection levels of 90% to decrease to 25% when five decoy snails were present for each target snail.
(5) Destroyer turned decoy for their third as Lukaku missed Mirallas's corner, the ball was allowed to bounce in the six-yard box and Ross Barkley emerged unnoticed to head in what proved the winner.
(6) 6.41pm GMT 49ers 6-0 Panthers, 2:19, 1st quarter Newton throws to Smith for 28 yards to get to the SF 38, I guess he's not just a decoy after all.
(7) The sum of the results suggest that tumor growth may succeed in vivo by the wholesale production of "decoy" antigens.
(8) Overexpression of TAR-containing sequences (TAR decoys) was used to render cells resistant to HIV replication.
(9) Overexpression of sequences corresponding to the major Rev-binding site in the Rev response element of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) (RRE decoys) was used to render cells resistant to HIV-1 replication.
(10) However, the phenotype of several mutations suggests that TAR decoy RNA does not inhibit HIV-1 gene expression by simply sequestering Tat but rather does so by sequestering a transactivation protein complex, implying that transactivation requires the cooperative binding of both Tat and a loop-binding cellular factor(s) to TAR.
(11) The concentration of the enzymes creatine kinase (CK) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), that are released from damaged muscle, was measured in the blood of wild adult male mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) captured for banding in decoy and bait traps and by rocket net.
(12) A long time seems to go by, marked only by the slap of Owen throwing and rethrowing the decoy.
(13) As such, the truncated soluble form of this molecule (sT4) has been proposed as a therapeutic drug for the treatment of AIDS whereby it would act as decoy for viral entry into cells or facilitate elimination of soluble viral envelope glycoprotein.
(14) Some of the ducklings had not been given any previous visual experience other than that gained in a 20-minute introduction to the empty apparatus; others had previously been given the opportunity to follow one particular decoy for 20 minutes.
(15) Bellamy's goal was every bit as special, the forward accepting the invitation to cut inside, after Adam Matthews's overlapping run served as a decoy, before arrowing a superb 20-yard drive into the far corner.
(16) The decoys could be grouped into three categories: those in the first category were treated as equivalent, that is, so long as the duckling had followed one of these models it would approach either.
(17) Testing the hypothesis may lead to the identification of plasmodial antigens that induce protective responses in the human host and distinguish them from non-protective, immunosuppressive or decoy antigens that promote parasite survival.
(18) He says that he is innocent, a decoy thrown out to protect the real culprits.
(19) Thus, use of RRE-based decoy RNA to inhibit HIV-1 replication may represent a safer alternative to the use of TAR decoy RNA.
(20) However, it then transpired that the security operation was a decoy to divert the loyalists away from the back of the station.
Pyrotechnics
Definition:
(n.) The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
(2) It wasn’t just that she was overawed by the spectacle, although she was: stuff I took for granted – lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons, all the usual bells and whistles of a big pop show – were a constant source of overwhelming sensory overload.
(3) Breathtaking motorbike stunts, laser effects, rock music and pyrotechnics: the story of the second world war has never looked so sexy.
(4) That the Turks shot down the jet and did so within 17 seconds – with the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , saying he gave the order to fire himself – suggests very strongly they were waiting for a Russian plane to come into or close enough to Turkish airspace with the aim of delivering a rather pyrotechnic message.
(5) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(6) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(7) Conventional wisdom suggests that Manchester United's defence is the rock on which their serial title successes have been built, the reliable platform that allows all the pyrotechnics up front to take place.
(8) The method used here could be applied to other pyrotechnic mixtures which give rise to complex mixtures of products.
(9) No verbal pyrotechnics here, nothing to challenge a conservative aesthetics biased against the house of fiction itself.
(10) But officials at Peta were much less happy with Beyoncé's half-time appearance – not because of the pyrotechnic electric guitar, the subsequent power outage , or even her decision to skip the song, If I Were a Boy.
(11) We also don't know what type of pyrotechnics were used."
(12) Gunpowder was difficult and dangerous to ignite at sea so, using pyrotechnic technology, Coston found a way that the flares could be hand-held and incorporate an ingenious self-igniting device.
(13) The Gavin & Stacey star showed no sign of going through the motions, interrupting Prince on-stage to take a selfie – which he subsequently tweeted – and using Arctic Monkeys' pyrotechnics to set his arm alight, albeit as a joke.
(14) Past outlandish displays from the American have included full facial masks, exploding bras and pyrotechnics.
(15) 8.34pm: From the emails: Susan Smillie - "The person responsible for the pyrotechnics on stage at the brits toneet is the nephew of Henry Cooper, he's called Alex Cooper (he works with my partner).
(16) In his youth Peter Brook was famed for his pyrotechnic dazzle.
(17) Click here to watch video Given its huge success and indeed the hullaballoo that surrounded its release – the snatches of it dropped into ad breaks during Saturday Night Live, the rapturously-received premiere of the video at the Coachella Festival – there's something appealingly low-key and unassuming about Get Lucky itself, particularly in the context of current pop music: no vocal pyrotechnics, no chorus signposted by a huge instrumental breakdown, and – a short burst of vocoder aside – none of the sonic trademarks of Daft Punk records that have subsequently become the sonic trademarks of noughties pop ("gimmicks that didn't used to be gimmicks," as Thomas Bangalter wryly described them).
(18) It appears that cases occurred only where this oily lubricant was used to manufacture near submicron-sized pyrotechnic flake (ie, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden), but never where similar flake has been manufactured for almost a century using polar lubricants.
(19) The standard criticism of Wallace's work is that for all its peerless pyrotechnics, it lacked heart.
(20) Metallica offered, in many ways, the most stripped-down show of all – though they had screens, they didn't have the enormous pyrotechnics and effects of their traditional stage show.