Sentence examples for dummy means from inspiring English sources

In an opinion for the federal court of appeals in New York, Judge Guido Calabresi once expressed that truth memorably: "'You should have passed, dummy,' means something entirely different at a bridge table from what it means on Superbowl Sunday".

The twelve-hundred-acre property is now a ghost town inhabited only by steel dummies meant to scare off the ubiquitous Canada geese that squirt a carpet of green across middle Jersey.

These seasonal searches come up with the dummies meant to be found old shanks with no edge.

However, significant coefficients on at least some of the slope dummies mean that, for many other health states as described by the EQ-5D, the predicted VAS score must vary by condition.

The latest change in the dummy government means there is now no one left that has any link to the 25 January revolution.

The boxes could have been mines or simply dummy boxes meant to test — and learn from — the reaction, officials said.

An expert quoted in the Mail article said that the use of the dummy could mean that Harper, the Beckhams' fourth child, could encounter a number of possible issues.

Kampfgruppe von der Heydte also had at their disposal some 300 dummy parachutists, meant to be dropped north of the actual drop zone in order to confuse American forces.

We coded the participants' actual return behavior as a dummy variable: 0 means the participant kept the "wrong" chocolate bar, while 1 means the participant returned it for another chocolate bar or 1 Euro.

A dummy variable effectively means that the corresponding observation is treated as though it were missing; in other words it corresponds to hard trimming.

The analysis of variance F-test is the same as testing whether or not the dummy variable coefficients (means) are significantly different from each other [49].