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What does dummy mean?

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Noun
  1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
  2. An unintelligent person.
  3. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
  4. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
  5. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
  6. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier. [from 20th c.]
  7. (card game) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
  8. (Britain) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; a feint.
  9. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
  10. (programming) An unused parameter or value.
Verb
  1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
  2. To feint
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