duck

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

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

Noun

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

Noun

1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
7. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
8. A cairn used to mark a trail.
9. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
10. (slang) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
11. A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
12. (obsolete,slang) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
13. (slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).

Noun

1. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
2. Trousers made of such material.

Noun

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

Sinònims

dodge

evade

elude

sidestep

dive

dip

circumvent

avoid

canvas

drake

steer clear of

immerse

avert

plunge

goose

🪿

shirk

douse

souse

stoop

duckling

hedge

duck’s egg

bow

🙇

dunk

wild duck

lean

sailcloth

dive down

sop

black duck

swan

🦢

musk duck

submerge

diving

ducks

yield

whistler

canard

parry

burlap

skirt

dabble

put off

fudge

shrink back

bob up and down

puddle

quack-quack

rag

sackcloth

saturate

shoveller duck

shrug

🤷

shun

sink

slip

soak

steep

submerse

the paper

twilight

up and down

waggle

waterfowl

whistling

widgeon

withdraw

Anatidae

a wild duck

be bent

endeavor not to meet

jump about

keep away from

keep clear of

mallard duck

wood duck

young bird

drag into

move down quickly

push down into the water

amphibious aircraft

canvasback duck

pink-eared duck

sack cloth

dip to immerse

amphibious plane

hessian linen

gunny cloth

abstain from

cannet

adorn

amphibian

back out

baptise

baptize

beat around the bush

bedeck

bedpan

bend

bend down

bird

🐦

bounce

bow down

burrow

christen

clear

confusion

cower

cringe

decorate

defaulter

draw back

drench

drop

embellish

equivocate

fend off

get rid of

go through

grebe

gunny

hooded

hop

hunch

hunched

imbue

lame duck

lint

little

lower

make off

move up

nod

ornament

plummet

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dʌk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: ducken

Cognat amb anglès antic: *dūcan

Cognat amb escocès: dulk

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: ducken

Cognat amb baix alemany: ducken

Cognat amb alemany: ducken

Cognat amb danès: dukke

Cognat amb escocès: dook

Cognat amb frisó occidental: dûke

Cognat amb neerlandès: duiken

Cognat amb baix alemany: duken

Cognat amb alemany: tauchen

Cognat amb suec: dyka

Heretat de anglès mitjà: doke

Heretat de anglès antic: duce

Cognat amb escocès: duik

Cognat amb danès: dukand

Cognat amb suec: dykfågel

Cognat amb neerlandès mitjà: duycker

Cognat amb baix alemany: düker

Cognat amb alemany: Tuch

Cognat amb suec: duk

Cognat amb islandès: dúkur

Cognat amb suec: 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”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)).
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”).

Frases

My advice is duck and cross with your right .

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