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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmock something ↔ up phrasal verbCOPYto make a full-size model of something so that it looks real → mock-up → mock→ See Verb tablemock-upˈmock-up noun [countable] COPYa full-size model of something, made before the real thing is built, or made for a film, show etcmock-up of a mock-up of the system a mock-up of a submarine → mock up at mock1
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mock-up• Within a few months after his celestial revelation, Atkinson had a mock-up of the program.• So before Forte Travelodge installed a new booking system it set up a trial in a mock-up of its operations centre.• The Safety Centre features full size mock-ups of nearly every danger a child could face including house fires and high speed trains.• That affects the mock-up, or test, of the windows, and it has a snowball effect on other trades.• The best exhibits at the gallery are the mock-ups of old telegraph offices, exchanges and wireless ops rooms.• At least the mock-up was holding up structurally.• The important thing was that the mock-up had to be as near as possible to the specifications of the building.• Architects wanted the mock-up to be as near as possible to the final specifications of the building.• This was approximately one fifth full size, but was a working mock-up rather than a true scale model.
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