Duck

[dʌk]

解释:

(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.) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; 'Before he could duck, another stone struck him'.

(verb.) submerge or plunge suddenly.

手打:纳塔利--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

手打:曼弗雷德

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Immerse, plunge, souse, dip.

v. n. [1]. Dive, plunge, dip, immerse one's self.[2]. Bow, cringe.

戈登编辑

解释:

n. a kind of coarse cloth for small sails sacking &c.

n. name given to any member of the family Anatid the prominent marks of which are short webbed feet with a small hind-toe not reaching the ground the netted scales in front of the lower leg and the long bill: the female duck as distinguished from the male drake: in cricket (originally duck's egg) the zero (0) which records in a scoring-sheet that a player has made no runs: (coll.) a darling sweetheart: a financial defaulter—esp. Lame Duck: also of things.—ns. Duck′-ant a Jamaican termite nesting in trees; Duck′-bill an aquatic burrowing and egg-laying Australian mammal about 18 inches long with soft fur broadly webbed feet and depressed duck-like bill—also called Duck-mole Platypus and Ornithorhynchus.—adj. Duck′-billed having a bill like a duck.—n. Duck′-hawk the moor-buzzard or marsh-harrier: the peregrine falcon of the United States.—adj. Duck′-legged short-legged.—ns. Duck′ling a young duck; Duck's′-foot the lady's mantle; Duck′-weed a name for several species of Lemna and Wolffia growing in ditches; Bombay duck bummals; Wild′-duck the mallard.—Break one's duck (cricket) to make one's first run (see above); Make Play ducks and drakes to use recklessly: squander waste (with with of)—from the skipping of a flat stone across the surface of water.

v.t. to dip for a moment in water.—v.i. to dip or dive: to lower the head suddenly: to cringe yield.—n. a quick plunge dip: a quick lowering of the head or body a jerky bow.—ns. Duck′er one who ducks: a diving-bird; Duck′ing; Duck′ing-pond; Duck′ing-stool a stool or chair in which scolds were formerly tied and ducked in the water as a punishment.

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