decoy
诱饵,诱骗,诱使,引诱
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Definitions
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- : a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
- : anything used as a lure.
- : a trained bird or other animal used to entice game into a trap or within gunshot.
- : an artificial bird, as a painted wooden duck, used for the same purpose.
- : a pond into which wild fowl are lured for capture.
- : an object capable of reflecting radar waves, used as a spurious aircraft, missile, chaff, etc., for the deception of radar detectors.
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- : to lure by or as if by a decoy: They decoyed the ducks to an area right in front of the blind.
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- : to become decoyed: Ducks decoy more easily than most other waterfowl.
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Examples
The decoys don’t attach to cells but float in the fluid between them to catch the virus before it binds to the real ACE2 receptors.
Batlle’s team began working on decoy proteins in January 2020 after learning about the first US case, building on knowledge gleaned from China’s 2003 SARS-CoV outbreak.
Perkins angered some customers who complained that Orvis’s catalogues were suddenly filled with copper wastebaskets, silk underwear and items such as the Phona-Duck, a telephone that looked like a duck decoy.
I kind of had to be a decoy and continue to move around without the ball.
Irving, a more elusive player than Harden, should have been the decoy and release valve if Durant was covered.
The former decoy did as bid as Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan entered.
Lönnborg, who works as a lawyer in London, has on several occasions posed as Elin, acting as a decoy to throw off the paparazzi.
The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my accomplice!
The boy's pulses leaped toward these things even while his lips curled in disdain at the shallow decoy.
You make use of your power to run a common decoy house, to do away with men for money.
The decoy was barely in place before he was on the floor while a volley of lead and a flight of arrows rained against the roof.
They saw nothing but the wretched decoy vanishing behind the nearest tents.