duck 的定义
plural ducks, duck.
- any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- the female of this bird, as distinguished from the male.Compare drake.
- the flesh of this bird, eaten as food.
- Informal. person; individual: He's the queer old duck with the shaved head and walrus mustache.
- a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- ducks,British Slang. ducky.
- Cricket Slang. failure of a batsman to score: to be out for a duck.a player's score of zero: to be bowled for a duck.Compare goose egg.
duck 近义词
drop down; avoid
由duck构成的短语
- duck out
- duck soup
- dead duck
- get one's ducks in a row
- lame duck
- like water off a duck's back
- sitting duck
- take to (like a duck to water)
- ugly duckling
更多duck例句
- For example, research reported in Science magazine found that in the laboratory, the virus either did not replicate or did not spread easily in dogs, pigs, chickens, or ducks.
- The pathway itself is a bit of a strange duck, because not all neurons that form it respond to the initial fear.
- The new study shows how water birds, such as ducks, may be part of that spread, she says.
- Most eggs in the new study passed through a duck within one hour.
- Shallow ponds — called potholes — on the prairie serve as nesting sites for half of the ducks in North America.
- The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.
- The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.
- Because Duck Dynasty receives monster TV ratings and Robertson paid by a company (A&E) while making these public statements.
- One of the most persistent myths in American politics is the media-fueled concept of the lame duck.
- A Fish and Wildlife special agent collected the bodies of two birds at the site, a redhead duck and a mourning dove.
- It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
- It is interesting to notice a resemblance between this huge bird and our English wild duck or plover.
- Perhaps it was as well that she allowed such responsibilities to slip past her like water running off the feathers of a duck.
- Then Kip had to duck back into a darkened doorway as Carlson retraced his steps, and got back into his car.
- (I mean the widow lady's whiskered companion)—I saw him eat pease with the very knife with which he had dissected the duck!