Definitions for dummy
ˈdʌm idum·my

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dummy, silent personnoun

   a person who does not talk

2. dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinheadnoun

   an ignorant or foolish person

3. dummynoun

   a figure representing the human form

4. blank, dummy, blank shelladjective

   a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

5. dummyverb

   having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function

   "a dummy corporation"

6. dummy, dummy upverb

   make a dummy of

   "dummy up the books that are to be published"

Wiktionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dummynoun

   A silent person; a person who does not talk.

2. dummynoun

   An unintelligent person.

   Don't be such a dummy!

3. dummynoun

   A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.

4. dummynoun

   Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

   To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.

5. dummynoun

   A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

   The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.

6. dummynoun

   A pacifier.

   The baby wants her dummy.

7. dummynoun

   A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.

8. dummynoun

   A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.

9. dummynoun

   A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

   The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.

10. dummyverb

    To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.

    The carpenters dummied up a set of simple props for the rehearsals.

11. dummyverb

    To feint

12. dummynoun

    An unused parameter or value.

    If is false, the other parameters are dummies.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dummyadjective

   silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine

2. Dummyadjective

   fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch

3. Dummynoun

   one who is dumb

4. Dummynoun

   a sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates

5. Dummynoun

   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

6. Dummynoun

   one who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character

7. Dummynoun

   a thick-witted person; a dolt

8. Dummynoun

   a locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car

9. Dummynoun

   the fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards

10. Dummynoun

    a floating barge connected with a pier

11. Etymology: [See Dumb.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dummy

   Dummy is the debut album of the Bristol-based group Portishead. Released in 22 August 1994 on Go! Discs, the album earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip-hop genre and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Although it achieved modest chart success overseas, it peaked at No. 2 on the UK Album Chart and saw two of its three singles reach No. 13. The album was certified gold in 1997 and has sold two million copies in Europe. As of September 2011, the album was certified double-platinum in the United Kingdom and has sold as of September 2011 825,000 copies.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dummy

   See decoy.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dummy

   A wood frame landing-place in front of a pier.

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1. • Figure
   • Make
   • Mute
   • Simpleton

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dummy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dummy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dummy in a Sentence

1. The Australian:

   The Council considers that the cartoon uses exaggeration and absurdity to make its point, but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not depict Ms. Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy'.

2. Don Rickles:

   Hey dummy, this floozy your latest thing? You can do better than her, cause I’ve seen better legs on Sonny Liston.

3. Gutierrez Reed:

   There was a box of dummy rounds and the box is labeled dummy. Hannah did take from that box which she by all accounts should have been able to rely on, that contains only dummy rounds, she loaded rounds from that box into the handgun only to later find out -- and she had no idea -- she inspected the rounds, that there was a live round. Now we don't know, however, whether that live round came from that box. We're assuming it did. We're assuming somebody put the live round in that box, which if you think about that, the person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging this set. There's no other reason you would do that.

4. Perry Brass:

   The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of “mud mummies” around you, get rid of the mud.

5. Syd Richardson:

   A lot of times I do have dummy orange or bright pink guns, rehearsal guns, no mistake on that.

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