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Dolly

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Noun

1. dolly

conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted

2. dolly

conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects

3. doll, dolly

a small replica of a person; used as a toy

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dolly

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noun plural -lies
1.  a child's word for a doll
2. cinema, television
a wheeled support on which a camera may be mounted
3. 
a cup-shaped anvil held against the head of a rivet while the other end is being hammered
4. 
a shaped block of lead used to hammer dents out of sheet metal
5. 
a distance piece placed between the head of a pile and the pile-driver to form an extension to the length of the pile
6. cricket
a simple catch
7. Also called: dolly bird, dollybird old-fashioned, slang, mainly British
an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent
verb -lies, -lying or -lied
8. cinema, television
to wheel (a camera) backwards or forwards on a dolly

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Dolly

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nounWord forms: plural ˈdollies
1. 
a doll
a child's word
2. 
a tool used to hold a rivet at one end while a head is hammered out of the other end
3.  Dialectal
a stick or board for stirring, as in laundering clothes or washing ore
4.  US
any of several kinds of low, flat, wheeled frames for transporting heavy objects, as in a factory
5.  US, Cinema, Television
a low, wheeled platform on which the camera is mounted for moving it about the set
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈdollied or ˈdollying US
6. 
to move a dolly forward (in), backward (out), etc. in photographing or televising the action
verb transitive US
7. 
to move (a camera, load, etc.) on a dolly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dolly

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n. pl. dol·lies
1. Informal A child's doll.
2.
a. A low mobile platform that rolls on casters, used for transporting heavy loads.
b. Such a platform as used by one working underneath a motor vehicle.
c. A hand truck.
3.
a. A wheeled apparatus used to transport a movie camera steadily along the ground or along a track.
b. A movie shot made by a camera moving steadily on a dolly; a tracking shot.
4. A small locomotive, as for use in a railroad yard or on a construction site.
5. A wooden implement for stirring clothes in a washtub.
6. A tool used to hold one end of a rivet while the opposite end is being hammered to form a head.
7. A small piece of wood or metal placed on the head of a pile to prevent damage to the pile while it is being driven.
intr.v. dol·lied, dol·ly·ing, dol·lies
To move a dolly in a specified direction: The camera dollied left, keeping the actors in the frame.

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