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    decoy

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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    de·coy /ˈdiːkɔɪ/ noun [countable]  1  TRICK/DECEIVEsomeone or something that is used to trick someone into going somewhere or doing something, so that you can catch them, attack them etc 诱饵，用作诱饵的人 Officer Langley acted as a decoy to catch the rapist. 警员兰利充当诱饵来抓捕那名强奸犯。2. DSOa model of a bird used to attract wild birds so that you can watch them or shoot them 〔观鸟或捕鸟时用于引诱鸟的〕假鸟 —decoy /dɪˈkɔɪ/ verb [transitive]
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    decoy• You act as a decoy and we'll sneak out the back.• Officer Jane Langlois acted as a decoy to catch the rapist.• The burglars started the fire as a decoy so that they could escape from police.• On the drive down, he had given some thought to using her as a decoy.• They use them as a decoy for surface to air missiles and they will do that during training.• It was an irresistible lure, like the quack of a decoy duck.• He knew it was a decoy, but could find no other.• It was a decoy to hide the fact that they were also killing members of the political opposition.• Two will be described here: pillow mounds and former rabbit warrens, and decoys for taking wildfowl.• During those tests kill vehicles would have to find their targets among an array of decoys and countermeasures.• Elmer and Mr Nordberg haul in the decoys and Bob and Cully climb out.    Origin decoy (1500-1600) Dutch de cooi “the cage” (= structure of bars for keeping animals in)
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    decoy
    de‧coy /ˈdiːkɔɪ/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: Dutch
     Origin: de cooi 'the cage' (= structure of bars for keeping animals in)
    1. someone or something that is used to trick someone into going somewhere or doing something, so that you can catch them, attack them etc:
        Officer Langley acted as a decoy to catch the rapist.
    2. a model of a bird used to attract wild birds so that you can watch them or shoot them
    —decoy /dɪˈkɔɪ/ verb [transitive]


    decoyBrE /ˈdiːkɔɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdiːkɔɪ/ 🔊 noun [countable] an animal or a bird, or a model of one, that attracts other animals or birds, especially so that they can be shot by people who are hunting them （诱捕鸟兽的）动物，假兽，假鸟a thing or a person that is used to trick sb into doing what you want them to do, going where you want them to go, etc. 诱饵；诱惑物；用作诱饵的人▸ decoy BrE /dɪˈkɔɪ/ 🔊NAmE /dɪˈkɔɪ/ 🔊 verb~ sth