(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.
Stale
Definition:
(n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
(v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
(v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
(v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
(v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
(v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
(a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
(v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
(v. i.) A prostitute.
(v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.
(v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
(v. t.) A stalking-horse.
(v. t.) A stalemate.
(v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(2) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
(3) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
(4) In the first comments from Epstein’s representatives since the Guardian revealed on Friday that the prince had been named in a Florida court motion, an attorney for the disgraced financier said: “These are stale, rehashed allegations that lawyers are now attempting to repackage and spice up by adding the names of prominent people.” Virginia Roberts, who says she was 17 when she first met the Duke of York in London, claims she was forced to have sexual contact with him by Epstein, in London, New York and on his private island in the Caribbean during an “orgy”.
(5) Though the Bond series was in anything but trouble before Mendes’ arrival – and Craig’s – there was the sense of a certain amount of staleness towards the end of Pierce Brosnan’s run.
(6) The PassivHaus pioneers have focused on improving insulation, providing far better air-tightness and warming incoming air in winter, with the hotter stale air extracted from the house.
(7) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
(8) The abortifacient property seems to decrease as the fruit becomes stale or ripe.
(9) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
(10) He resolutely refused to sit on the fence, and staleness, caused by watching stream upon stream of bad movies as well as good ones, never set in.
(11) Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...” “What was he like as a person?” asked Dalgliesh.
(12) If you’re not bothered about instructions in another language, misprinted labels or biscuits that may be several months past their peak quality – but not stale – you can stock up for a fraction of the price you might pay in a regular shop.
(13) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
(14) Overhead lights attached to ripped-out electrical wires hang suspended in the stale air and fading wallpaper peels off the walls like dead skin.
(15) For every 10 party hacks there were one or two sublime dissidents or innovators – Polanski and Wajda in Poland, Jancsó in Hungary, Dušan Makavejev in Yugoslavia – and we shouldn't throw out all these beautiful babies with the stale red bath water.
(16) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
(17) Northern Irish businesses are now able to trade across Europe, more people from across Europe have settled here and have provided a fresh perspective from the stale old sectarian divisions that Northern Ireland has been cursed with.
(18) This is welcome, as we believe that we offer a real alternative to the politics of austerity and the stale dogma of the Westminster parties.
(19) Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare.
(20) He should leave behind stale orthodoxies and trust his instinct that change is essential.