duck
v.
thrust under water, dunk, immerse; crouch, stoop, dodge
n.
type of swimming bird; score of zero; sweetheart, love (term of endearment); bending over
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duck
Noun
1. small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
(hypernym) anseriform bird
(hyponym) drake
(member-holonym) Anatidae, family Anatidae
(part-meronym) duck down
2. (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
(synonym) duck's egg
(hypernym) score
(classification) cricket
3. flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
(hypernym) poultry
(hyponym) duckling
4. a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
(hypernym) fabric, cloth, material, textile
Verb
1. to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
(hypernym) move
2. submerge or plunge suddenly
(hypernym) dive, plunge, plunk
(derivation) submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing
3. dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
(synonym) dip, douse
(hypernym) dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
(derivation) submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing
4. 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"
(synonym) hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep
(hypernym) avoid
(hyponym) quibble
ducken
v.
duck, stoop, humiliate, shame, mortify, lower someone's pride; submit, crouch, yield
Duck
(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. 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.
(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.
(n.)
The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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