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# dummy

«dummy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a model of a person, used in shops to show clothes or in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dummy, dummies); adjective (dummy); verb (dummy, dummies, dummied — in sport)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dummy is a model of a person, used in shops to show clothes or in tests, like a crash-test dummy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#m1)

2) In the UK, Australia and Ireland a dummy is a rubber teat a baby sucks to calm down; Americans call it a pacifier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#m2)

3) Dummy describes something that looks real but is not, such as a dummy camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#m3)

4) In some sports a dummy is a pretend move to trick another player. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#m4)

5) A dummy is also a rude word for a silly person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children see shop dummies and babies with dummies; in science and safety, crash-test dummies show how seatbelts protect people. In stories a dummy may be used to fool a guard. Phrases: «a crash-test dummy», «a shop dummy», «sell someone a dummy» (trick them in sport), «a dummy run» (a practice).

### examples

- The baby fell asleep with her dummy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x1)
- The shop dummy wore a red winter coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x2)
- Crash-test dummies show why we must wear seatbelts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x3)
- The burglar fooled the guard with a dummy in the bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x4)
- The camera on the wall is just a dummy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x5)
- He sold the defender a dummy and scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x6)
- We did a dummy run of the fire drill first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/#x7)

### note

Plural: dummies (y changes to ies). Pacifier (US) and dummy (UK, Australia, Ireland) mean the same thing for babies. Calling a person a dummy is rude.

### In the corpora

- [A placebo is a dummy treatment with no active medicine; people sometimes feel better just because they expect to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dummy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dummy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.