A duck is a bird that spends much of its life on or near water. You can sometimes see whole families of ducks paddling across lakes and ponds.
A pet; a darling.
Noun
small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
Noun
a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
Noun
flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
Noun
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
Verb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Verb
to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
Verb
submerge or plunge suddenly
Verb
dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
n.
A pet; a darling.
n.
A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than
canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds,
and sometimes for men's clothing.
n.
The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
v. t.
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and
suddenly withdraw.
v. t.
To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing
it; as, duck the boy.
v. t.
To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward
motion.
v. i.
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear;
to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
v. i.
To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
v. t.
Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
v. t.
A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the
person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
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Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.2.
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In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.2.
The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool.
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Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod.
A pet; a darling.
A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
Any bird of the subfamily
Usage Examples
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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Other Usage ExamplesPoetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
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