Duck
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English
Etymology
Old English duce.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dʌk/
Noun
duck (plural: ducks)
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- A female duck.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
Antonyms
- (2): drake
Derived terms
Related concepts
Translations
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae (1)
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- A female duck (2)
- The flesh of a duck used as food (3)
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- A batsman's score of zero after getting out (4)
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- Arabic: بطة
- Basque: ahate
- Ido: anado
- Indonesian: itik
- Kurdish: werdek, ordek
- Lao: ເປັດ (pe:t)
- Low Saxon: ("Low German"): Aant f
- Occitan: guit
- Portuguese: pato m
- Romanian: raţă f
- Sami: suorsá
- Sardinian: craccacciola, pabidoi, anadre
- Slovenian: racak m, racman m, utva f (liter., 'wild duck'), otva f (liter., 'wild duck')
- Slovio: utka
- Spanish: pato m, pata f
- Sorbian:
- Upper: kačka
- Tupinambá: ypeka
- Thai: เป็ด
- Ukrainian: качка
- Vietnamese: vịt
- Volapük: dök
Intransitive verb
to duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past ducked, past participle ducked)
- To lower the head in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
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Transitive Verb
to duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past ducked, past participle ducked)
- To lower (something) into water.
- To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To try to evade doing something.
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el:duck fr:duck io:duck it:duck hu:duck pl:duck ru:duck sr:duck fi:duck ta:duck zh:duck
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