Test vs Dummy - What's the difference?
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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
A , trial.
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(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
A Test match.
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars]] and sea urchins.
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
* Dryden
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To .
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
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(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
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(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
(obsolete) A witness.
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A silent person; a person who does not talk.
An unintelligent person.
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.
A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
(AU, UK, NZ) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
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(card games, chiefly, bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
(UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
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(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
(programming) An unused parameter or value.
To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
To feint
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As nouns the difference between test and dummy
is that test is while dummy is a silent person; a person who does not talk.As a verb dummy is
to make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.test
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see terra, thirst.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Synonyms
* (challenge) challenge, trial * (sense) quiz, examinationAntonyms
* (challenge) breeze * (sense) recessDerived terms
* acid test * babysitter test * blood test * flame test * inkblot test * litmus test * nose test * Rorschach test * smell test * smoke test * sniff test * stress test * test case * tester * test tubeDescendants
* German: (l) * Dutch: (l)Verb
(en verb)- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- to test''' the soundness of a principle; to '''test the validity of an argument
- Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
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- to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
* German: (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tester, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
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English
Noun
(dummies)- Don't be such a dummy !
- To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
- The hammer and drill in the display are dummies .
- The baby wants her dummy .
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- Then on the fifth day, at the first sleep of the day, remove the dummy' and follow my settling guide for your baby?s age. You should throw all her ' dummies in the bin to ensure you are not tempted to use them again – even outside sleep times.
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- No Fairy baby has ever been seen to suck its thumb or to use a dummy .
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- We?ve found that going cold turkey works best – you check that your baby isn't ill or teething, then throw all dummies' away. When your baby cries for her ' dummy , you can look her in the eye and say, ‘It?s gone,’ and really mean it.
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- The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a dummy .
- If
flag1is false, the other parameters are dummies .
Synonyms
* (a thing in the form of a person) mannequin, marionette * (plastic teat) pacifier (US), soother (Canada)Derived terms
* dummy bid * dummy bidderSee also
* dud * fake * feintExternal links
* http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.phpVerb
- The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
citation, page= , passage=The more glamorous qualities usually associated with him are skill and pace and he used those to race on to a ball across him and dummy a defender before having a right-foot shot saved. }}
citation, page= , passage=For the first, the 30-year-old allowed Walcott space on the right to send in a pass that was expertly dummied by Samir Nasri, allowing Van Persie to swivel and smash right-footed past Robert Green. }}