dud

In one of the dungeon blocks of incorrect crypts, there is no such end portal, but your character will remark that you've found a dud.

We lit the firecracker and waited for it to go off, but it was a dud. Nothing happened when the fire finished burning the fuse.

Hey Tobias, your character says that the cavern "is a dud" to let you know that the crown is not in that dungeon.

Dud Bolt was one of the few Podracer pilots realized as a puppet rather than an all computer-generated creation.

Two years ago the first Android phone hit the market and, frankly, it was a bit of a dud.

You and I may think it had something to do with dud mortgages being repackaged as inexplicably exotic financial instruments. Wrong.

I am trying to get the slide projector to work. It looks like the light bulb is a dud!

And ironically, it's now your money that will be used to repay those dud mortgages because we on Wall Street are running out of money.

But although dud consumer loans have attracted much attention, individuals are not the only ones failing to pay on time.

When you can't stand to stay out with a dud any longer, just say good-bye.

They should be generous enough to make a dud boss leave without a fuss or a lawsuit, but no more.

But Jobs likely knew he had a dud on his hands; consumers, for their part, hated it.

Her point was that a dud teacher teaches children to respect the authority of the office, even when the incumbent doesn't merit any.

However, some dud performance has put the focus on price, at least among Chinese bloggers.

You may be making a call to them when your first choice turns out to be a dud.

With Chrysler's market share in a death spiral, Fiat will finally grasp that this dud is exactly that - a dud.

The disposal of a dud in the shooting range is always a difficult problem, and it is never well solved till now.

Taxpayers end up footing the bill for dud loans and the economy underperforms as the flow of finance is misdirected.

Nomura's gamble could well turn out to be a dud.

It's not like I'm setting you up with my dud cousin Raymond who makes miniature furniture for a hobby.

Any number of events, from the failure of a big bank to the collapse of a government to more dud bond auctions, could cause its demise.

Even more important, dud teachers encourage students to be resourceful.

Dud, a Vulptereen, is an unscrupulous toady, working for the equally shifty Sebulba.

Apocalypse Not: The virus, dubbed Phoenix, was a dud.

"It's a dud, I guess, " said the goose.

Much of the dud stuff comes from Anglo Irish Bank, a rogue lender that the government now plans to break up.

some ministries simply wanted to be rid of dud firms, suggests Sean Turnell of Macquarie University in Australia.

As long as firms could pay the low servicing costs on dud loans, banks could pretend that the principal might one day be repaid.

One of these terrors is a dud.

It's nearly impossible for an untrained person to know which of the remnant ordnance is dud and which is deadly.

That allowed the banks to release some of the reserves set aside to cover dud loans.

The film, timed to the Communist Party's 60th anniversary in power, was a box-office and critical dud.

Those who think capitalist democracies have an unrivalled talent for generating dud loans should consider the Middle Kingdom.

Your mortar barrage will put exactly one round on the intended target. That round will be a dud.

However, problems with dud mortgages may worsen as the economy slows.

The treacherous Dug secretly paid Bolt for any crashes he caused, and Dud worked as Sebulba's mid-air bodyguard.

The concern, of course, is that banks will have trouble determining who will pull through, and could easily wind up with a lot of dud loans.

Along the way, it's very likely that it will hit several "dud" device nodes.

ALTHOUGH it symbolises a bright idea, the traditional incandescent light bulb is a dud.

But while the cameras were a hit with consumers, they were a dud for Kodak's bottom line.

Dud commercial-property assets clog banks' balance-sheets.

Rapidly rising bank lending inevitably creates more dud loans.

The original metaphor practice was a dud.

Electronic firing energy is dissipation by improving leakage circuit when the fuze is dud.

America's economy slowed last year before reviving. Britain's endured a dud quarter or two as it emerged from previous recessions.

The defining characteristic of a true dud is that he or she resists improvement staunchly.

It's widely (and correctly) assumed that he has good connections everywhere he visits, so he's unlikely to wind up at a dud.

In offices, the arguments for the token dud are even stronger.

People predicted that by week's end Obama would either be a major star or a major dud.

Dud torpedoes forced a second attack on Yowa Maru .

A person who repeatedly issues dud cheque will be terminated all rights to issue cheque by bank.

Apple under Jobs has barely ever released a dud product.

I'm a "O" level dud, who is just one another onlooker who is not here to stir up any fierce argument between different supporters.

this tape recorder is a dud . it won ' t play my cassette.

I haven't seen a script with this level of ignorance about the legal system since 1998's Ashley Judd dud "Double Jeopardy. "

When your harmonic is a dud, arpeggiate your anxiety.

This is why regulators sometimes like to deal with dud banks in secret.

That teacher is a dud. He's so boring.

What would I even say? Zack, I'm sorry you're stupid. Zack Have a milk dud.

Obama's cuts: Real deal or dud?

Have you ever spent a month getting to know someone online and discovered on the date that they were a real-life dud?

its submarine-launched Bulava missile, for example, has proved a dud in recent tests.

Not only is it easier for institutions to eject a dud chief executive.

The results will be ugly for some, given how slow they have been to build reserves and acknowledge dud loans.

Such failures were evident in the build-up to the current crisis: dud mortgages were packaged as supposedly safe bonds to investors;

Are dud signals from a gravitational wave detector evidence that the universe is a holographic projection? (Image: ESA)

Nonlinear regression analysis of cardiac enzyme kinetic model with modified simplex method and DUD method using SAS software

Design of Hydraulic System for the Dud Disposal Vehicles in Shooting Range

Analysis of Dud Reason of Stored Energy Welding Electric Detonator

The Research of an Electrics Squib Dud

Study on the Dud Reason and Improved Method of Electric Detonator