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Meaning of toy in English

toy
noun [ C ]
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/tɔɪ/ us
/tɔɪ/
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an object for children to play with:
a clockwork/wind-up toy
UK a cuddly/soft/stuffed toy
a toy train/farm/soldier
Put your toys away now - it's time for bed.
Leave daddy's camera alone - it isn't a toy!
an object that is used by an adult for pleasure rather than for serious use:
His latest toy is an underwater camera.
She has several executive toys on her desk.
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toy
adjective [ before noun ]
uk
/tɔɪ/ us
/tɔɪ/
belonging or relating to a very small breed of dog that is kept as a pet:
a toy poodle/spaniel
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(Definition of toy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

toy | American Dictionary

toy
noun [ C ]
us
/tɔɪ/

toy noun [C] (PLAY OBJECT)

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an object that children play with:
a stuffed toy
a toy train/soldier
toy
adjective [ not gradable ]
us
/tɔɪ/

toy adjective [not gradable] (SMALL DOG)

(of a breed of dog) very small and kept as a pet:
a toy poodle
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Examples of toy

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Furthermore, children manifested a marked increase in pretend-play with toy objects that were replicas of real objects specifically designed to stand for other objects.
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It is a rather elegant tool one can use to engage in social activities and share ideas or perhaps coerce others to share their toys.
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Children were merely demarcated as such by virtue of their smaller scale and the presence of toys, pets, and educational aids.
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The work has immediate practical application in showing how domestic and personal robots, and robotic toys and pets, can most effectively interact with humans.
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Separate areas provided opportunities for housekeeping, blocks, puzzles, games, and precast and manipulative toy play activities, as well as an option for individual reading.
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However, the caller persists in toying with the answerer by extending the game a bit more.
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One adult manipulated toy characters and props and provided the narration.
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That is, using the narrower definition of nouns, at the syntactical stage more verb types than noun types were produced in the toy context.
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This may be especially so when referring to toys that do not display prominent gender characteristics, for example, abstract human figures, babies and animals.
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Then, while putting the magic toys away, the magician accidentally broke a toy.
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For the second session, the dyads were instructed to enact the two scripted events (in counterbalanced order) using script-appropriate toys.
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In the principal experimental conditions, children first heard either an ignorant or a knowledgeable speaker link a novel word with one of three toys.
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Diamond coded infants' levels of interest in the hidden toys as they were hidden and then uncovered.
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Greek lyric meter is then a carefully orchestrated way of toying with the expectations of metrically sophisticated listeners.
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During the speech samples, the children read books or played with puppets, puzzles and other toys while talking to the research assistants.
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Collocations with toy

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toy factory
If a toy factory cannot get its raw materials, unemployment may result.
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toy manufacturer
Eventually, a community office was placed in the local toy manufacturer.
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toy piano
Her first memory of making music was playing a toy piano when she was aged four.
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Translations of toy

in Chinese (Traditional)
玩具, （供成年人玩賞的）玩意, （寵物狗）小的…
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玩具, （供成年人玩赏的）玩意儿, （宠物狗）小的…
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juguete, toy, miniatura…
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brinquedo, toy, miniatura…
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jouet [masculine], petit/-e, miniature…
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