0 a bird that lives by water and has webbed feet (= feet with skin between the toes), a short neck, and a large beak:
1 a friendly way of talking to someone you like:
[ as form of address ] Come and sit beside me, duck.
2 to move your head or the top part of your body quickly down, especially to avoid being hit:
3 a bird that lives by water and has short legs with webbed feet (= feet with toes joined by skin), or the meat of this bird
4 to move your head or the top part of your body quickly down, esp. to avoid being hit:
Some poultry farmers keep turkeys and ducks as well as chickens.
She pointed out that with ducks there was a name for male and female.
None of the justices "ducked" both of these claims - three of them decided against our position on the first and five on the second.
The task was ducked, with only a couple of trite pages (pp. 164-5) on temptation, fear, contradictions, and cultural assumptions.
Adult worms were obtained from chicks and ducks, but not from rats, mice and golden hamsters.
In that setting, modernization theorists, precisely because they stood for the swiftest and most influential currents of the liberal tradition, were sitting ducks.
中文繁体
鳥, 鴨子, 鴨肉…
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鸟, 鸭子, 鸭肉…
MoreEspañol
pato, agacharse, pato [masculine]…
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pato, abaixar-se rapidamente, desviar a cabeça ou o corpo rapidamente…
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アヒル, (体、頭を)ひょいとかがめる…
MoreTürk dili
ördek, başını eğmek, eğilmek…
MoreFrançais
canard [masculine], cane [feminine], se baisser vivement…
MoreCatalan
ànec, ajupir-se…
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