duck
Εννοια
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- To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- To bow.
- To evade doing something.
- To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
Συχνότητα
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/dʌk/
Ετυμολογία
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”).
Σύμφωνο με Γερμανικά
ducken
Σύμφωνο με Δυτικά Φριζικά
dûke
Σύμφωνο με Ολλανδικά
duiken
Σύμφωνο με Γερμανικά
tauchen
Σύμφωνο με Γερμανικά
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