Puppet
['pʌpɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers.
(noun.) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer.
Typed by Lloyd--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small image in the human form; a doll.
(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Typist: Martha
Definition
n. a small doll or image moved by wires in a show: a marionette: one who acts just as another tells him.—ns. Pupp′etry finery affectation: a puppet-show; Pupp′et-show -play a mock show or drama performed by puppets; Pupp′et-valve a valve like a pot-lid attached to a rod and used in steam-engines for covering an opening.
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Examples
- The great Mogul, nominally their overlord, became in effect their puppet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Alaric made a puppet of the eastern monarch and Stilicho of the western. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The doll--the puppet--the manikin--the poor inferior creature! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But don't you on that account come talking to me as if I was your doll and puppet, because I am not. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And Miss Ingram had looked down at her with a mocking air, and exclaimed, Oh, what a little puppet! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Lydgate began to feel this sort of consciousness unpleasant and one day looked down, or anywhere, like an ill-worked puppet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- While the routineers see machinery and precedents revolving with mankind as puppets, he puts the deliberate, conscious, willing individual at the center of his philosophy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But aside from the disappearance of those entertaining puppets, all else is gain in the creation of this new art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The strong, masterful personality of Holmes dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally puppets in his hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is proud to think that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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