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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös | Konteksti |
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| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | eläintiede, amerikanenglanti |
| 2. | | |
| 3. | | eläintiede |
| 4. | | |
| 5. | | slangi, eläintiede, amerikanenglanti, pokeri |
| 6. | | tekstiilit |
| Verbit |
| 7. | | |
| 8. | | |
| 9. | | puhekieli |
| 10. | | |
| 11. | | slangi |
| 12. | | |
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive) To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (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.
- (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To evade doing something.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
Substantiivit
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (British dialect chiefly East of the Pennines) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- 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, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
- 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.
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.
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