| dummy whist | a form of whist with three players, four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up |
blank
dummy blank shell | a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet |
comforter pacifier
baby's dummy
teething ring | device used for an infant to suck or bite on |
| dummy | a figure representing the human form |
subject
content
depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
| ventriloquist's dummy | a wooden dummy into which a ventriloquist projects the voice |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
| subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated |
| subject | (logic) the first term of a proposition |
nominative
nominative case
subject case | the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
subject
topic
theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion, he didn't want to discuss that subject, it was a very sensitive topic, his letters were always on the theme of love |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
national
subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation, a monarch has a duty to his subjects |
dumbbell
dummy
dope
boob
booby
pinhead | an ignorant or foolish person |
| dummy silent person | a person who does not talk |
| subject case guinea pig | a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures, someone who is an object of investigation, the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly, the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities |
vassal
liege
liegeman
liege subject
feudatory | a person holding a fief, a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord |
| submit subject | refer for judgment or consideration, The lawyers submitted the material to the court |
close up
clam up
dummy up
shut up
belt up
button up
be quiet
keep mum | refuse to talk or stop talking, fall silent, The children shut up when their father approached |
| subject | make accountable for, He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors |
dummy
dummy up | make a dummy of, dummy up the books that are to be published |
| subject | cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to, He subjected me to his awful poetry, The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills, People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation |
subjugate
subject | make subservient, force to submit or subdue |
| subject | likely to be affected by something, the bond is subject to taxation, he is subject to fits of depression |
| dummy | having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function, a dummy corporation |
subject
dependent | being under the power or sovereignty of another or others, subject peoples, a dependent prince |
capable
open
subject | possibly accepting or permitting, a passage capable of misinterpretation, open to interpretation, an issue open to question, the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation |