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1. having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"
2. a figure representing the human form
3. a person who does not talk (同)silent person
4. make a dummy of; "dummy up the books that are to be published" (同)dummy up
5. a form of whist with three players; four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up
6. a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice

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1. (洋服屋などの)人台(じんだい),ボディー,マネキン人形;(射撃練習の)標的人形 / 模造品,型見本 / (他人の)手先,ロボット / 《おもに米俗》ばか者 / 《英》=pacifier
2. 予行練習

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Dummy may refer to:

Dolls

• Mannequin, a model of the human body used for various purposes
• A puppet used as a prop for ventriloquism

People

Major League Baseball players:

• William Joseph Dummy Deegan (1874–1957) a pitcher
• Ed Dundon (1859-1893), an American Association pitcher credited with being the first deaf player in Major League Baseball history; nicknamed "Dummy"
• William Ellsworth Dummy Hoy (1862-1961), a deaf center fielder
• George Michael Dummy Leitner (1871-1960), a deaf pitcher
• Matthew Daniel Dummy Lynch (1926-1978), a second baseman
• Herbert Courtland Dummy Murphy (1886–1962), a shortstop
• Reuben Crandol Dummy Stephenson (1869–1924), an outfielder
• Luther Haden Dummy Taylor (1875-1958), a deaf-mute pitcher

Other:

• Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham (c. 1788-1863), the pseudonym of a man accused of being a witch in 19th century Essex, England

Games and sports

• In the card game of contract bridge, the partner of the player who wins the auction
• Dummy (football), an association football (soccer), rugby league and rugby union ruse
• Dummy pass, in rugby league football

Entertainment

Films:

• Dummy (TV movie), a 1979 TV movie starring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino
• Dummy (film), a 2002 drama film/comedy film
• Dummy (2008 film), a low-budget horror film costarring Aaron Taylor-Johnson
• Dummy (2009 film), a coming-of-age drama starring Emma Catherwood
• Dummy, a short film by Kira Muratova

Other:

• Dummy (album), the 1994 debut album of Portishead
• Dummy (comics), a fictional character from the comic book X-Men
• "The Dummy", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• "Dummy" (Pushing Daisies episode), The second episode of the first season of "Pushing Daisies"

Computer programming and mathematics terms

• Skeleton (computer science) or dummy code, not used in the final product, but left in to avoid creating bugs
• Dummy data, data used as a placeholder or for testing purposes only
• Dummy file, files used to fit the space in data optical discs
• Dummy load, a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes
• Dummy variable, in math, a free and bound variable
• Dummy variable (statistics), also known as indicator variable, only taking the values 0 and 1 and used in regression analysis

Linguistics

• Various types of syntactic expletive, forms required grammatically but which contribute nothing to meaning, including:
  • Dummy pronoun, such as it in the sentence it is good to relax
  • Dummy auxiliary, such as do in some English sentences; see do-support

Other uses

• Pacifier, called a dummy or soother in some countries
• Military dummy, fake military equipment used for deception
• Steam dummy, a steam engine made to resemble a railroad passenger coach
• Dummy candidate, a candidate who stands for election with no intention of winning
• Dummy corporation, an entity created as a front or cover
• Dummy purchaser, a type of agent
• Dummy round, a round of ammunition that is completely inert
• Dummy or filler text, randomly generated text

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Dummy"
• Crash test dummy, used for automotive testing
• Paradummy, a fake paratrooper used in World War II
• For Dummies, a series of guides for readers new to various topics
• Dumb (disambiguation)
• Dum (disambiguation)

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English Journal

• The frequency and predictors of helmet use among Iranian motorcyclists: A quantitative and qualitative study.

• Zamani-Alavijeh F, Bazargan M, Shafiei A, Bazargan-Hejazi S.SourceDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
• Accident; analysis and prevention.Accid Anal Prev.2011 Jul;43(4):1562-9. Epub 2011 Apr 13.
• PMID 21545891

• A numerical investigation into the effect of CRS misuse on the injury potential of children in frontal and side impact crashes.

• Kapoor T, Altenhof W, Snowdon A, Howard A, Rasico J, Zhu F, Baggio D.SourceDepartment of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering, University of Windsor, 410 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada.
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• PMID 21540198

Japanese Journal

• Mongolia's International Trade : Impact of Its Geographical Location

• Oh Jinhwan,Tumurbaatar Orgilbold
• Economics & management series EMS-2011-02, 1-20, 2011-01
• … The results are basically consistent with the prediction of the gravity model with some unexpected results on per capita GDP and the WTO dummy. …
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• Improving read disturb characteristics by using double common source line and dummy switch architecture in multi level cell NAND flash memory with low power consumption (Special issue: Solid state devices and materials)

• Kang Myounggon,Park Ki-Tae,Song Youngsun [他]
• Japanese journal of applied physics 50(4), 04DD03-1-4, 2011-04
• NAID 40018800950

• リバースエンジニアリングによる前突ダミーFEモデルの開発

• 金子 勇人,毛利 真理子,城岡 正和 [他]
• 自動車技術会論文集 42(2), 361-366, 2011-03
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