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advertisement
Noun
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An advertisement is a public notice which advertises something; pictures and writing from a company which many people can see.
There was an advertisement for fruit on the wall. It had a big picture of an apple.
dummy
Noun
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A dummy is a model of a person. A dummy is often used to show clothes or test safety.
The dress looked better on the dummy.
The company uses dummies to test the new cars in crashes.
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A dummy is a person who is stupid; if someone is a dummy they are not intelligent.
You got good grades, I know you are not a dummy.
I got angry because they treated me like a dummy.
Those guys are a bunch of dummies.
I need easy instruction, something for dummies.
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A dummy is something that is not there but people act like its there for some purpose.
That file is just a dummy to help the program start.
dummy
Adjective
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A dummy thing is something that is not there or is not the thing it is called.
They used a dummy account to make the records look right.
The card game has one dummy player for each real player.