Quote (MrDjBthu @ Sun, 19 Oct 2008, 21:04)
NounSingular
dummy
Plural
dummies
dummy (plural dummies)
A silent person; a person who does not talk.
An unintelligent person.
Don't be such a dummy!
A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a [puppet]].
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.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
(Australia, UK) A pacifier.
The baby wants her dummy.
(bridge) The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feint.
(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.
If flag1 is false, the other parameters are dummies.
[edit] Synonyms(Something made to look like a person) mannequin, marionette
(Something to calm a baby) pacifier (US), soother (Canada)
[edit] Derived terms
dummy bid
dummy bidder
dumbass
[edit] Related terms
dumb
sursa este wikipedia.
asa ca sa te mai cultivi si tu, si nu doar cu grau sai porumb.
OMG
)))))))))) nici la facultatea nu primeai asa explicatie =))
This post was edited by Xixina on Oct 23 2008 11:37am