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Decoy
Decoy De*coy", n.
1. Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that
deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an
enemy; a bait.
2. A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to
entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
3. A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in
order to take or shoot them.
4. A person employed by officers of justice, or parties
exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit
an offense under circumstances that will lead to his
detection.
Meaning of decoy from wikipedia
- A
decoy (derived from the
Dutch de kooi,
literally "the cage" or
possibly ende kooi, "duck cage") is
usually a person, device, or
event which resembles...
- Look up
decoy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
decoy is a person, device, or
event meant to distract.
Decoy or
Decoys may also
refer to:
Decoy (1934...
-
Within quantum cryptography, the
Decoy state quantum key
distribution (QKD)
protocol is the most
widely implemented QKD scheme.
Practical QKD systems...
- The
Decoy is the name of a
number of films: The
Decoy (1914 film) The
Decoy (1915 film) The
Decoy (1916 film) The
Decoy (1918 film) The
Decoy (2006 film)...
- The
Decoy Bride is a 2011
British romantic comedy film
written by
comedian Sally Phillips and Neil Jaworski, and
starring David Tennant,
Alice Eve and...
- A
decoy receptor is a
receptor that is able to
recognize and bind
specific growth factors or
cytokines efficiently, but is not
structurally able to signal...
- been
named HMS
Decoy. HMS
Decoy (1810), the name
vessel for her three-vessel
class of cutter; the
French captured her in 1814 HMS
Decoy (1856), Cheerful-class...
- In chess, a
decoy is a
tactic that
lures an
enemy man off its
square and away from its
defensive role.
Typically this
means away from a
square on which...
- A
flare or
decoy flare is an
aerial infrared countermeasure used by an
aircraft to
counter an
infrared homing ("heat-s****ing") surface-to-air missile...
- Bold (also
called Bolde, a term
derived from kobold) was a
German sonar decoy, used by U-boats
during the
Second World War from 1942 onwards. It consisted...
