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mock-up|ˈmɒkʌp|
[f. mock v. 4 c.]
a. An experimental model (often full-sized) of a projected aircraft, ship, apparatus, etc., used esp. for study, testing, practice, or display. Also attrib.
1920Flight 19 Feb. 218/1 If the dimensions of such parts are difficult to determine on paper, the use of ‘mock⁓ups’ should be resorted to for this purpose. 1933Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVII. 759 A mock-up of the eventual design was built to full scale with every instrument, lever, and fitting installed. 1944U. Sinclair Presidential Agent (1945) iv. xv. 292 At the moment the Germans had the fastest fighter [plane], but Robbie had a new one in the ‘mock-up’ stage that was going to knock them all cold. 1944[see console n. 3 b]. 1951R. Bradbury Illustr. Man (1952) 106 It's only a mockup... When they plan a rocket they build a full-scale model first, of aluminium. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 84 She was gazing at a mockup of a space capsule. 1968Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 8 Nov. 23 (caption) This instrument panel mock-up..resembles as closely as possible the eventual airliner. 1971Sunday Australian 8 Aug. 3/3 A 747 training mock-up at Sydney Airport.
b. transf. and fig. A plan, model, conception; an imitation.
1954G. Smith Flaw in Crystal xvi. 163 These coloured sheets..were mock-ups for a new children's magazine. 1957J. F. Horner Summary of Scientology 79 Because they do not immediately alter to fit his mock-up, he is constantly failing. 1959J. Cary Captive & Free xiii. 68 ‘What I want to know,’ she said, ‘is when we're going to see the mock-up of the new front page.’ 1959Guardian 4 Dec. 13/5 The thing is written in a half-bantering Anglicised mock-up of the Spanish idiom. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. Note to plate 38, ‘All under one roof’ may prove just a mock-up for the terminal form of the anti-city. |