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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...
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Within quantum cryptography, the
Decoy state quantum key
distribution (QKD)
protocol is the most
widely implemented QKD scheme.
Practical QKD systems...
- 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...
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Decoy Ohtani (born June 18, 2023),
known in ****anese as
Dekopin (デコピン), is a
Kooikerhondje owned by ****anese
baseball player Shohei Ohtani. He is a fixture...
- 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), a Cheerful-class...
- 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)...
- 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...
-
Decoy is a 1984
album by jazz
musician Miles Davis,
recorded in 1983.
Keyboardist Robert Irving III and
guitarist John
Scofield wrote or co-wrote most...
- The
Decoy Bride is a 2011
British romantic comedy film
written by
comedian Sally Phillips and Neil Jaworski, and
starring Kelly Macdonald,
David Tennant...
- A
sonar decoy is a
device for
decoying sonar. One may be
released from a
submarine or a
surface vessel. A
decoy acts as
false targets for
human operators...
