Toy
[tɒɪ] or [tɔɪ]
Definition
(noun.) a device regarded as providing amusement; 'private airplanes are a rich man's toy'.
(noun.) a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier); 'a toy stove'.
(verb.) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; 'She played nervously with her wedding ring'; 'Don't fiddle with the screws'; 'He played with the idea of running for the Senate'.
Typed by Ann--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
(v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
(v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
(v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
(v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
(v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
(v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
(v. t.) To treat foolishly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Plaything, bawble, gewgaw, trinket, knicknack, gimcrack, JIGGUM-BOB.[2]. Trifle, bagatelle, bubble, small matter.
v. n. Trifle, dally, sport, wanton, play.
Editor: Nolan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bauble, trifle, bagatelle, gewgaw, plaything
ANT:Implement, utensil, weapon
Typist: Stanley
Definition
n. a child's plaything: a trifle: a thing only for amusement or look: a curious conceit a story: a matter of no importance: amorous sport.—v.i. to trifle: to dally amorously.—n. Toy′er one who toys.—adj. Toy′ish given to toying or trifling: playful: wanton.—adv. Toy′ishly.—ns. Toy′ishness; Toy′man one who deals in toys; Toy′shop a shop where toys are sold.—adj. Toy′some disposed to toy: wanton.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow. To see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated. To give away toys in your dreams, foretells you will be ignored in a social way by your acquaintances.
Editor: Susanna
Examples
- Then Becquerel was next visited, but he was nearly blind and could see nothing in the new optical toy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was, that Dora seemed by one consent to be regarded like a pretty toy or plaything. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In fact, it has become the familiar scientific toy of man, woman, and child, interesting, instructive, and useful to all. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hence it will be obvious that these toys produced merely an ILLUSION of THEORETICAL motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In their plays, they like to construct their own toys and appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Rawdon bought the boy plenty of picture-books and crammed his nursery with toys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His toys had been soldiers and guns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children's toys are kept in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- As to constructing toys for the Minders, out of nothing, he had done that daily. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On this occasion they wandered to the album, and toyed absently about the margin of the little water-colour drawing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen, said Waldemar, who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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