What's the difference between dummy and soother?

Dummy


Definition:

  • (a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
  • (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.

Soother


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, soothes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This feeling allays anxiety and depressive affects, and the patient comes to experience the analyst as a soother.
  • (2) Head back to Racecourse station and grab a rickshaw to Amatrra Spa , soother to the rich and famous, where back massages start at 2,200 rupees (£22).
  • (3) Analysis of the obtained echographic images of the oral cavity along the middle sagittal line has led the authors to a conclusion that employment of traditional milk soothers with both large and small holes is harmful for articulation and forms an erroneous pattern of sucking and swallowing function, this possibly resulting in abnormal development of the jaws and oral cavity organs.
  • (4) Spiced warm vanilla and cardamom soother Sarah Nathan's spciy vanilla and cardamom soother should knock you right out.
  • (5) It's the perfect night-time soother and banishes all the worries of the day in a gentle nightcap.
  • (6) It's fair to say I've never been as ruined by a tasting as this one: with the twin soothers of spice and booze coming up in many of your fragrant offerings, by midday, nothing could part me from my duvet.

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