duck

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

ducks

V_ing/Gerund

ducking

V_ed/pp

ducked

1.
(transitive)To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
2.
(transitive)To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
3.
(intransitive)To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
4.
(intransitive)To bow.
5.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
6.
(transitive)To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
7.
(colloquial, intransitive)To enter a place for a short moment.
I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?
8.
(transitive)To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

ducksduckduckedookdoock

1.
(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
2.
(countable, uncountable)Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and shorter-necked.
3.
(countable, uncountable)Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
Đồng nghĩa: duckess
4.
(uncountable)The flesh of a duck used as food.
Đồng nghĩa: duckflesh, duckmeat
5.
(countable, uncountable)(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
6.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A playing card with the rank of two.
7.
(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
Đồng nghĩa: duck building
8.
(countable, uncountable)A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
9.
(US, countable, uncountable)A cairn used to mark a trail.
10.
(countable, uncountable)One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
11.
(countable, dated, slang, uncountable)(finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
Đồng nghĩa: lame duck
12.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (to duck, plunge under water, submerge), from Old English *dūcan (to dip, dive, duck), from *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck).