duck

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
2. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
3. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
4. (intransitive) To bow.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
6. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
7. (colloquial, intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.

Noun

A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. (countable, uncountable) Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (countable, uncountable) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. (countable, uncountable) A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
7. (countable, uncountable) A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
8. (US, countable, uncountable) A cairn used to mark a trail.
9. (countable, uncountable) One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
10. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
11. (countable, uncountable) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
12. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
13. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Trousers made of such material.

Noun

1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
2. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

Sinonieme

dodge

evade

dive

elude

sidestep

dip

avoid

circumvent

goose

🪿

immerse

steer clear of

canvas

shirk

drake

douse

avert

plunge

souse

stoop

duck’s egg

wild duck

dunk

duckling

lean

bow

🙇

hedge

sailcloth

musk duck

dive down

dabble

black duck

submerge

yield

shrink back

whistler

fudge

swan

🦢

bob up and down

sop

skirt

ducks

canard

parry

burlap

put off

diving

defaulter

bounce

decorate

bird

🐦

Vertalings

canard

🦆

pato

🦆

Ente

🦆

anatra

🦆

pato

🦆

eend

🦆

πάπια

ànec

🦆

cane

🦆

anas

🦆

ánade

🦆

ördek

🦆

بطة

🦆

anitra

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dʌk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: ducken

Verwante met Old English: *dūcan

Verwante met Skots: dulk

Verwante met Middle Dutch: ducken

Verwante met Nederduits: ducken

Verwante met Duits: ducken

Verwante met Deens: dukke

Verwante met Skots: dook

Verwante met Fries: dûke

Verwante met Nederlands: duiken

Verwante met Nederduits: duken

Verwante met Duits: tauchen

Verwante met Sweeds: dyka

Geërf van Middle English: doke

Geërf van Old English: duce

Verwante met Skots: duik

Verwante met Deens: dukand

Verwante met Sweeds: dykfågel

Verwante met Middle Dutch: duycker

Verwante met Nederduits: düker

Verwante met Duits: Tuch

Verwante met Sweeds: duk

Verwante met Yslands: dúkur

Verwante met Sweeds: docka

In summary

From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”).
Cognates
Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).

Sinne

My advice is duck and cross with your right .

For the state bird , the white-winged wood duck , Assam is a globally important area .