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ALL meanings of dolly

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  • noun dolly cinema: platform on wheels 1
  • noun dolly trailer 1
  • noun dolly metal-shaping tool 1
  • noun dolly A child's word for a doll. 1
  • noun plural dolly Informal. a doll. 1
  • noun plural dolly a low truck or cart with small wheels for moving loads too heavy to be carried by hand. 1
  • noun plural dolly Movies, Television. a small wheeled platform, usually having a short boom, on which a camera can be mounted for making moving shots. 1
  • noun plural dolly Machinery. a tool for receiving and holding the head of a rivet while the other end is being headed. 1
  • noun plural dolly a block placed on the head of a pile being driven to receive the shock of the blows. 1
  • noun plural dolly a small locomotive operating on narrow-gauge tracks, especially in quarries, construction sites, etc. 1
  • noun plural dolly a short, wooden pole with a hollow dishlike base for stirring clothes while laundering them. 1
  • noun plural dolly Slang. a tablet of Dolophine. 1
  • noun plural dolly Also called dolly bird. British Informal. an attractive girl or young woman. 1
  • noun plural dolly (sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. an affectionate or familiar term of address, as to a child or romantic partner (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female). 1
  • verb with object dolly to transport or convey (a camera) by means of a dolly. 1
  • verb without object dolly to move a camera on a dolly, especially toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised (often followed by in or out): to dolly in for a close-up. 1
  • noun dolly a female given name, form of Doll. 1
  • noun dolly child's doll 1
  • countable noun dolly A dolly is a child's word for a doll. 0
  • noun dolly a wheeled support on which a camera may be mounted 0
  • noun dolly a cup-shaped anvil held against the head of a rivet while the other end is being hammered 0
  • noun dolly a shaped block of lead used to hammer dents out of sheet metal 0
  • noun dolly a distance piece placed between the head of a pile and the pile-driver to form an extension to the length of the pile 0
  • noun dolly a simple catch 0
  • noun dolly an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent 0
  • verb dolly to wheel (a camera) backwards or forwards on a dolly 0
  • noun dolly a doll 0
  • noun dolly a tool used to hold a rivet at one end while a head is hammered out of the other end 0
  • noun dolly a stick or board for stirring, as in laundering clothes or washing ore 0
  • noun dolly any of several kinds of low, flat, wheeled frames for transporting heavy objects, as in a factory 0
  • noun dolly a low, wheeled platform on which the camera is mounted for moving it about the set 0
  • intransitive verb dolly to move a dolly forward (in), backward (out), etc. in photographing or televising the action 0
  • verb transitive dolly to move (a camera, load, etc.) on a dolly 0
  • noun dolly A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer. 0
  • noun dolly A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. 0
  • noun dolly In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver. 0
  • noun dolly A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building. 0
  • noun dolly A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc. 0
  • noun dolly (film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted. 0
  • noun dolly (Colloquial) (children) A child's name for a doll. 0
  • noun dolly (cricket) A ball hit by a batsman such that it goes gently to a fielder for a simple catch. 0
  • verb dolly (Transitive Verb) (cricket) To hit a dolly. 0
  • verb dolly To move an object using a dolly. 0
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