What's the difference between drake and duck?

Drake


Definition:

  • (n.) The male of the duck kind.
  • (n.) The drake fly.
  • (n.) A dragon.
  • (n.) A small piece of artillery.
  • (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
  • (2) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (3) Dosage with the second lead shot did not result in further accumulation of bone lead in hens, but increased bone lead concentrations threefold in drakes, suggesting that saturation levels for bone lead had already been reached in the hens after ingestion of one shot.
  • (4) But this year forward-thinking mainstream rappers such as A$AP Rocky, Drake and Nicki Minaj have created a fertile soil for the growth of a new kind of normal.
  • (5) Trump’s response: After Drake came forward, Trump issued a dismissive statement.
  • (6) He states that he categorically warned Drake about appointing Sutton as technical director.
  • (7) That depends on whether you think Nick Drake is incredibly boring,” countered Duffy.
  • (8) T-Mobile: ‘Restricted Bling’ (starts at 10:21) Rap star Drake demonstrates extraordinary compliance no matter what’s asked of him in this funny advert for T-Mobile which aims to suggest that the network’s rivals “ruin everything”, but a longer version with him actually incorporating the lines “device eligible for upgrade after 24 months” and “streaming music will incur data charges” into his song wouldn’t go amiss.
  • (9) At the end of 1971 Drake wrote some new songs in Tanworth, but they constituted a clean break from the second- and third-person meditations of the previous two albums.
  • (10) Mallard drakes accumulated mercury rapidly from dietary dosage of methylmercury dicyandiamide and eliminated it slowly, retaining approximately one half at the end of 84 days; no measurable loss occurred between the end of the 7th and 56th days, but loss resumed concurrently with new feather growth, and continued through the 112th day, the close of the study.
  • (11) The anatomical structure of the ejaculatory groove region (EGR) of the drake was investigated macro- and microscopically in connection with its function.
  • (12) Similarly, in the Muscovy drake, using TAM enhanced penis growth and advanced semen production by 5 wk.
  • (13) • Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' won best rap performance , beating Kanye West, Jay Z, Eminem, Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
  • (14) Back at his parents' house, Drake had the use of a car.
  • (15) The Drake family even offered to buy it off me eight years ago for £2,000."
  • (16) Stephen “Tea Towel” Duffy mentioned Nick Drake.
  • (17) That Drake had hit a new low was perfectly apparent - not only from the rest of the songs in that final session but from his inability to sing and play the guitar at the same time.
  • (18) British Cycling, Will’s Wheels and the curious case of 2,200 pieces of GB kit Read more Drake said: “I have never been made aware, formally or informally, of any allegation that Shane Sutton had used the offensive term ‘gimps’ in reference to Paralympic athletes prior to the media reports of the past few days.
  • (19) But even as details of the prospective deal began to emerge and give it credibility (including the slightly bizarre but apparently true report of musician Drake intervening to persuade his fan, Defoe, to come to the rapper's hometown team ), there still seemed to be something of a gap between the thought of Defoe arriving, and Leiweke's late-November promise that Toronto were on the verge of the biggest signing in MLS history.
  • (20) Seasonal changes in plasma LH concentrations were measured by radioimmunoassay every month for 1 year in nine Khaki Campbell drakes kept under natural lighting conditions in Kiel, Germany.

Duck


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
  • (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.
  • (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
  • (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. 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. 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (2) The temperature of the anterior and middle hypothalamus of conscious Pekin ducks was altered with chronically implanted thermodes.
  • (3) Previous studies in the rat, mouse and duck had suggested that agents present in cigarette smoke might induce a cytochrome P450-mediated detoxication pathway, leading to protection against aflatoxin-induced primary liver cancer.
  • (4) Prolactin plasma concentrations decreased rapidly at the end of incubation in ducks which successfully hatched young as well as in unsuccessful incubators.
  • (5) From ducks A. laidlawii, M. anatis and various unclassified strains were isolated, among these M. anatis and unclassified arginine splitting mycoplasma strains proved to be pathogenic.
  • (6) The early phases of hepadnaviral infection were studied in primary duck hepatocyte cultures.
  • (7) In intact ducks changes in blood flow were recorded as changes in digital subcutaneous tissue temperature.
  • (8) But on Sunday night it was hard to duck the euphoria.
  • (9) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
  • (10) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
  • (11) Adult mallard ducks fed 0, 2, 20, or 200 ppm of cadmium chloride in the diet were sacrificed at 30-day intervals and tissues were analyzed for cadmium.
  • (12) Typical herpesviral capsids and virions were seen in negatively-stained preparations of duck embryo fibroblasts.
  • (13) To study the effect of air sac pressures, a controllable pressure difference was produced between the air sac orifices of fixed duck lungs.
  • (14) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
  • (15) You cannot now duck the fact that we have an electoral system which is completely out of step with the aspirations and hopes of millions of British people," he said.
  • (16) Three Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) isolated from wild ducks in Japan were evaluated for their biological activities, pathogenicity and immunogenicity against one-day-old chickens.
  • (17) With these synthetic peptides, radioimmunoassay systems for dog, rat, and duck C-peptides were developed.
  • (18) On the basis of the antiviral action of sulfated polyanions in human immunodeficiency virus and other viral infections, we studied the effect of dextran sulfate and heparin on duck hepatitis B virus infection.
  • (19) The (Na+ plus K+)-ATPase activities in salt gland homogenates increased 3- to 4-fold after saline treatment of ducks for 3 weeks.
  • (20) Compared with intact ducks, neither decerebration nor brain stem transection at the rostral mesencephalic (RM) level had any effect on development of diving bradycardia, or heart rate at the end of two-min dives.