의상 전시나 훈련, 또는 충돌 테스트 등을 위해 사람의 형상을 본떠 만든 인체 모형
A life-sized model of the human body, used for displaying clothes, medical training, or safety testing.
예문:
"The department store used a realistic dummy to showcase the new winter collection."
"Engineers used a crash-test dummy to evaluate the vehicle's safety features."
실제 물건처럼 보이게 만들어졌으나 기능은 하지 않는 모조품이나 견본
An object designed to resemble and serve as a substitute for the real thing, often for deception or display.
예문:
"The soldiers set up dummy tanks to deceive enemy surveillance planes."
"The restaurant displayed dummy food in the window to attract hungry customers."
(비격식) 어리석거나 바보 같은 사람
An informal and often derogatory term for a person perceived as stupid or slow to understand.
예문:
"Don't be such a dummy; the instructions are clearly written on the box."
"He felt like a total dummy when he realized he had been wearing his shirt backward."
책이나 잡지 등의 최종 인쇄 전 레이아웃을 확인하기 위해 만든 가제본
A prototype or mock-up of a book or page layout used to plan the physical appearance of the final product.
예문:
"The editor reviewed the dummy of the magazine to check the placement of advertisements."
"We need to prepare a book dummy before we send the final files to the printer."
(언어학) 문법적 구조를 갖추기 위해 사용되지만 실질적인 의미는 없는 가주어 등의 단어
A word that has no semantic meaning but is required to fulfill the grammatical requirements of a sentence structure.
예문:
"In the sentence 'It is raining,' the word 'it' serves as a dummy subject."
(컴퓨팅) 테스트 목적이나 자리 표시를 위해 사용되는 유효하지 않은 데이터나 변수
A placeholder variable, function, or data set used in programming to satisfy requirements without performing a real action.
예문:
"I filled the database with dummy data to test the performance of the search algorithm."
(영국) 아기가 물고 빨 수 있도록 만든 고무 젖꼭지
A rubber or plastic nipple for a baby to suck on for comfort; widely used in British English.
예문:
"The baby finally stopped crying once his mother gave him his dummy."
진짜인 것처럼 모방하여 만든, 또는 연습용의
Serving as an imitation or a substitute for the purpose of testing, practice, or deception.
예문:
"The students engaged in a dummy run of the fire evacuation procedure."
"The hacker created a dummy website to phish for login credentials."