Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
Substantiivi
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
Esimerkit
- Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.
- In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.
- The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.
- The music is ducked under the voice.
- A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
- The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.
- And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island […].
- He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
- And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).
- Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
- I told him to duck when I saw the incoming missile.
- He ducked the rock that was thrown at him.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | ducked |
| Imperfekti | ducked |
| Partisiipin preesens | ducking |
| Monikko | ducks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | ducks |