(a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
(n.) One who is dumb.
(n.) A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
(n.) An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
(n.) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
(n.) A thick-witted person; a dolt.
(n.) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
(n.) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
(n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 20-week double-blind double-dummy crossover trial active treatment was given as two types of tablets providing daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 9000 IU beta carotene, 0.54 g vitamin C, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine.
(2) The usefulness of micronutrient antioxidant therapy for recurrent (non-gallstone) pancreatitis has recently been endorsed by a 20-week double-blind double-dummy cross-over trial in 20 patients.
(3) In spite of this fact, it has not been possible in this study to establish a significant correlation between previous dummy-sucking and the development of cross-bite in the permanent dentition.
(4) Second, in patients with combined hypertension and angina pectoris, fixed doses of labetalol (200 mg twice daily) gave the same blood pressure values, effort tolerance, and nitrate usage as did atenolol 100 mg once daily in a double-blind, double-dummy, crossover study.
(5) Daily Mail & General Trust could launch the title as soon as next weekend, with a dummy edition planned for this Sunday.
(6) The method consists in refining by least-squares the positions and thermal parameters of a set of dummy atoms placed in the initial low resolution electron density map, so as to minimize the discrepancy between the calculated scattering intensities and the scattering intensities observed in the high resolution data set.
(7) Inactive dummies with the same dimensions as the radioactive sources are loaded into the capsules before obtaining the orthogonal radiographs.
(8) No one in the United States has absolute power or an absolute right to do anything that violates the constitution This is American law for dummies, but Trump gives no indication of knowing its basic tenets.
(9) In a double-blind, double-dummy study, the efficacy of topical 5% EMLA cream was compared with that of lignocaine infiltration in alleviating the pain of arterial cannulation.
(10) Also claimed for buying a copy of Windows XP for Dummies.
(11) In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, double-dummy, randomized, parallel-group preliminary study, the antihypertensive efficacy and tolerability of the ACE inhibitor enalapril (20 mg day-1) and hydrochlorothiazide (50 mg day-1) were evaluated and compared for 4 weeks in 20 African patients with essential hypertension.
(12) The study was double-blind, with a double-dummy technique.
(13) The dummy pumps exerted no apparent behavioral or endocrine effects, whereas tonic immobility was significantly prolonged and circulating corticosterone concentrations significantly elevated at 4 and 11 days after implantation of the corticosterone minipumps.
(14) Last year’s exercises fuelled an unusually sharp and protracted surge in military tensions, with Pyongyang threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and nuclear-capable US stealth bombers making dummy runs over the Korean peninsula.
(15) A double-blind, double-dummy, crossover study compared oral controlled-release morphine sulfate (MS Contin tablets [MSC], Purdue Frederick, Norwalk, CT) every 12 hours, and immediate-release morphine sulfate (IRMS) tablets, every 4 hours, in 14 evaluable patients with chronic cancer pain.
(16) A randomised, double blind, double dummy, cross over study was then carried out in 30 children to compare the effects of a 20 micrograms dose given through a nasal pipette, a 200 micrograms tablet, and a placebo.
(17) Campbell celebrated his second Premier League goal by sucking on a dummy hidden in his shorts, although he might have considered offering it to Özil, whose drive and execution made the goal at a moment when Arsenal were flat.
(18) In this paper, head baffle and head shadow effects were measured at a front-oriented and at a back-oriented microphone in a hearing aid casing when worn by human subjects and when placed on a dummy head.
(19) Double-blind, double-dummy, randomised, controlled, parallel group trial.
(20) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.
Puppet
Definition:
(n.) A small image in the human form; a doll.
(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(2) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
(3) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(4) Senior Coalition members backed the minister, while accusing unions of being Labor’s puppet masters.
(5) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
(6) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(7) Extreme discomfort and anonymity are the chief challenges faced by puppeteers.
(8) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(9) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(10) Three- and 4-year-olds attributed knowledge and perceptual experience to the person (either themselves or the puppet) who had viewed the hidden object, but not to the person who did not view it.
(11) Nothing that transformed the writer into a glove puppet of the manipulators of the media was acceptable to him.
(12) The program includes a self-instructional package presented by a children's puppet.
(13) No, you’re the puppet.” She said the intelligence agencies blamed election-related cyberattacks on Russia.
(14) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
(15) Things that you really wouldn't think about, like for example, you never use the word 'puppet'.
(16) Plans for the show, which has the working title No Strings Attached, are for a puppet presenter interviewing real life celebrities.
(17) With two people to a puppet, synchronised co-ordination was a new challenge.
(18) Anatomical dolls, medical puppets and stuffed animals, toys and games, as well as replicas of medical equipment and furniture are now available to demonstrate more clearly to patients what will be happening to them.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
(20) On the first day of every workshop, there would be a new Joey puppet with new joints or parts, and I'd always go say hello to him.