[dol-ee] 
noun, plural dol⋅lies, verb, dol⋅lied, dol⋅ly⋅ing.| 1. | Informal. a doll. |
| 2. | a low truck or cart with small wheels for moving loads too heavy to be carried by hand. |
| 3. | Movies, Television. a small wheeled platform, usually having a short boom, on which a camera can be mounted for making moving shots. |
| 4. | Machinery. a tool for receiving and holding the head of a rivet while the other end is being headed. |
| 5. | a block placed on the head of a pile being driven to receive the shock of the blows. |
| 6. | a small locomotive operating on narrow-gauge tracks, esp. in quarries, construction sites, etc. |
| 7. | a short, wooden pole with a hollow dishlike base for stirring clothes while laundering them. |
| 8. | Slang. a tablet of Dolophine. |
| 9. | Also called dolly bird. British Informal. an attractive girl or young woman. |
| 10. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) Slang. an affectionate or familiar term of address (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., esp. by a male to a female). |
| 11. | to transport or convey (a camera) by means of a dolly. |
| 12. | to move a camera on a dolly, esp. toward or away from the subject being filmed or televised (often fol. by in or out): to dolly in for a close-up. |
| dol·ly (dŏl'ē) n. pl. dol·lies
To move the wheeled apparatus on which a movie or television camera is mounted toward or away from the scene of action. |
The first mammal successfully cloned — Dolly, a sheep — was born in 1996 in Scotland as the result of work by biologist Ian Wilmut (see clone). The procedure that produced Dolly involved removing the nucleus from an egg cell and placing the nucleus of an adult sheep's mammary cell into it. Further manipulations caused the egg to “turn on” all genes and develop like a normal zygote. (See totipotency.)
