Dummy
noun
A model or replica of a human being.
The clothing store displays clothes on dummies in their windows.
Often appears as...
- dress a dummy
- crash test dummy
adjective
Fake or pretend.
The thief was caught when he tried to use a dummy credit card.
Often appears as...
- dummy variable
- dummy account
noun
A pacifier used by a baby.
The baby stopped crying when given his dummy.
Often appears as...
- baby's dummy
- spit out the dummy
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Informal
noun
A person who is not intelligent.
Don't be a dummy, think before you act!
Often appears as...
- act like a dummy
- dumb as a dummy
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Informal, Disapproving
noun
A preliminary layout, showing the position of illustrations and text as they are to appear in the final reproduction.
We need to approve the dummy before the magazine goes to print.
Often appears as...
- print a dummy
- create a dummy
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Technical
noun
A model or replica of a human being.
The clothing store displays clothes on dummies in their windows.
Often appears as...
- dress a dummy
- crash test dummy
adjective
Fake or pretend.
The thief was caught when he tried to use a dummy credit card.
Often appears as...
- dummy variable
- dummy account
noun
A pacifier used by a baby.
The baby stopped crying when given his dummy.
Often appears as...
- baby's dummy
- spit out the dummy
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A person who is not intelligent.
Don't be a dummy, think before you act!
Often appears as...
- act like a dummy
- dumb as a dummy
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
A preliminary layout, showing the position of illustrations and text as they are to appear in the final reproduction.
We need to approve the dummy before the magazine goes to print.
Often appears as...
- print a dummy
- create a dummy
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Retail Display
Used to refer to mannequins in stores showing how clothes look when worn.
The designer arranged several dummies for the new collection's showcase.
Pro Tip 2/2Safety Testing
'Dummy' often refers to the mannequins used in safety tests, like car crashes.
Crash test dummies help car manufacturers improve safety features.
Pro Tip 1/2Retail Display
Used to refer to mannequins in stores showing how clothes look when worn.
The designer arranged several dummies for the new collection's showcase.
Pro Tip 2/2Safety Testing
'Dummy' often refers to the mannequins used in safety tests, like car crashes.
Crash test dummies help car manufacturers improve safety features.
Pro Tip 1/2Retail Display
Used to refer to mannequins in stores showing how clothes look when worn.
The designer arranged several dummies for the new collection's showcase.
Pro Tip 2/2Safety Testing
'Dummy' often refers to the mannequins used in safety tests, like car crashes.
Crash test dummies help car manufacturers improve safety features.
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Steven Levitt on child...
And I just think that it's interesting that the idea of using real-world crashes, which is very much something that economists think would be the right thing to do, is something that scientists don't actually, usually think -- they would rather use a laboratory, a very imperfect science of looking at the dummies,
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What color is Tuesday?...
that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes, outwardly unaware of the perceptual couplings happening all the time. Cross-talk in the brain is the rule,
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Steve Truglia: A leap...
the materials that help us, when we're hit like this, not to hurt ourselves too much. The picture in the bottom right-hand corner there is of some crash test dummy work that I was doing. Showing how stunts work in different areas, really. And testing breakaway signpost pillars.
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Pedestrian Crash Test...
world the polar - dummy actually has a need that that is a has four ligaments in it just like a human knee it has a tibia that's consumable that's replaceable in between tests if it is to break the ribs actually use a different type of sensor than their normal dummy
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
Listen to them. Listen to yourself. What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies. Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important.
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How bees can keep the...
to protect one acre of farmland. Now a dummy hive is simply a piece of plywood which we cut into squares, paint yellow and hang in between the hives. We're basically tricking the elephants into thinking there are more beehives than there really are.
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How entrepreneurship can...
as long as I can remember I've always loved creating things and to be honest sometimes destroying them my parents worried a bit that I would spend my weekends reading things like motherboards for dummies and how to view
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Making a Pangolin an...
renowned wildlife cameraman brad besterlink has come to film with honeybun um you're going to see about the pace that she walks i mean funny little tummy not many people get to see a pangolin dummy
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Kary Mullis: Celebrating...
They have to say that. They had to be very cautious. But what I'm saying is, you can be delighted, because the editor of Science, who is no dummy, and both of these fairly professional --
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Crash Test Dummy PIPE I...
throughout the world of testing there's always one guy that seems to take the hit in the name of safety he's a crash-test dummy at a laboratory
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Steven Levitt on child...
And I just think that it's interesting that the idea of using real-world crashes, which is very much something that economists think would be the right thing to do, is something that scientists don't actually, usually think -- they would rather use a laboratory, a very imperfect science of looking at the dummies,
Video examples
What color is Tuesday?...
that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes, outwardly unaware of the perceptual couplings happening all the time. Cross-talk in the brain is the rule,
Video examples
Steve Truglia: A leap...
the materials that help us, when we're hit like this, not to hurt ourselves too much. The picture in the bottom right-hand corner there is of some crash test dummy work that I was doing. Showing how stunts work in different areas, really. And testing breakaway signpost pillars.
Video examples
Pedestrian Crash Test...
world the polar - dummy actually has a need that that is a has four ligaments in it just like a human knee it has a tibia that's consumable that's replaceable in between tests if it is to break the ribs actually use a different type of sensor than their normal dummy
Video examples
Why do we sleep? PIPE...
Listen to them. Listen to yourself. What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies. Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important.
Video examples
How bees can keep the...
to protect one acre of farmland. Now a dummy hive is simply a piece of plywood which we cut into squares, paint yellow and hang in between the hives. We're basically tricking the elephants into thinking there are more beehives than there really are.
Video examples
How entrepreneurship can...
as long as I can remember I've always loved creating things and to be honest sometimes destroying them my parents worried a bit that I would spend my weekends reading things like motherboards for dummies and how to view
Video examples
Making a Pangolin an...
renowned wildlife cameraman brad besterlink has come to film with honeybun um you're going to see about the pace that she walks i mean funny little tummy not many people get to see a pangolin dummy
Video examples
Kary Mullis: Celebrating...
They have to say that. They had to be very cautious. But what I'm saying is, you can be delighted, because the editor of Science, who is no dummy, and both of these fairly professional --
Video examples
Crash Test Dummy PIPE I...
throughout the world of testing there's always one guy that seems to take the hit in the name of safety he's a crash-test dummy at a laboratory
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Quote examples
Pamela Adlon
American Actress
Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.
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Teri Garr
American Actress
Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.
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Joseph Stiglitz
American Economist
If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.
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Shy Glizzy
American Musician
I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
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Roger Goodell
American Businessman
My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.
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Shane Warne
Australian Athlete
I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
American Director
Of course, I'm no dummy.
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Alan Ladd
American Actor
I was a dummy in school.
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Pamela Adlon
American Actress
Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world.
Quote examples
Drew Barrymore
American Actress
I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.
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Teri Garr
American Actress
Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.
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Joseph Stiglitz
American Economist
If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.
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Shy Glizzy
American Musician
I ain't go on media and spazz. That's what crash dummies do. That ain't what I do.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
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Roger Goodell
American Businessman
My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.
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Shane Warne
Australian Athlete
I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
American Director
Of course, I'm no dummy.
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Alan Ladd
American Actor
I was a dummy in school.
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