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Meanings of dummy in English
Russian
фиктивное лицо Portuguese
festim 
Substitute object lacking normal functionality of objects of its class, used for various purposes.
Spanish
hacer un borrador Usage of dummy in English
1
Everyone passed, East made her opening lead, and I tabled the dummy.
2
But the thrill of the game is not in tackling the dummy.
3
The dummy is better for showing up the defects in your work.
4
The shower being over we returned to the house of the dummy.
5
It was as good as we had ever done in dummy runs.
6
Even though they'd been using dummy ammunition, the long weapon frightened him.
7
She immediately saw that the dummy wasn't really standing on his own.
8
The dummy-chucker carefully brushed the ashes from his cigar upon a tray.
9
The new dummy wore blue denim jeans and a red-and-green flannel shirt.
10
This released the dummy envelopes, and covered up the originals retaining them.
11
Savagely the young man pulled off his coat and approached the dummy-chucker.
12
The practice dummy in the CPR class didn't have ribs to break.
13
Mr. Britling suddenly understood the significance of Wilkins and his dummy gun.
14
The dummy itself had been made of old sail canvas and excelsior.
15
The dummy still continued to stand there, and you shot at it.
16
I happened to be dummy, and I went out on the terrace.
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Dummy across language varieties
Australia
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United States of America
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