(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.
Geese
Definition:
(n.) pl. of Goose.
(pl. ) of Goose
Example Sentences:
(1) Unilateral post-ganglionic denervation in geese prevented the changes in [RNA] and [RNA]:[DNA] that occurred in the intact gland of birds given salt water for 24 hr; denervation had no significant effect in birds on fresh water throughout.
(2) I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days.
(3) Geese kept at 4.5 degrees C. trended toward greater fertility than geese housed but subjected to natural temperature variations.
(4) The prevalence of influenza varied greatly among the common waterfowl species: mallards 42%, black ducks 30%, blue-winged teal 11%, wood ducks 2%, and Canada geese 0%.
(5) But the company's permission to explore there was dependent on its impact on migrating birds, including pink-footed geese and whooper swans .
(6) Clinical signs in the live geese were weakness, lethargy, anorexia, emaciation and bile stained diarrhea.
(7) The live geese (155) were captured and moved to nearby freshwater wetlands where most apparently survived.
(8) In geese with one salt gland removed, no indication of compensatory growth of the remaining gland was evident in birds kept on fresh water for 24 days.
(9) The segmentum accelerans in geese is a constriction in the caudal end of the primary bronchus.
(10) Geese were trapped and blood samples were obtained in each of 4 consecutive years, 1966-69.
(11) The high prevalence of this condition in white-fronted geese suggested a genetic influence.
(12) Regional blood flow was measured using the radioactive microsphere method in unanesthetized Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) and bar-headed geese (Anser indicus) breathing 21, 10 and 5% O2.
(13) All species showed upper alimentary distress with mortalities occurring in the geese.
(14) Migratory ducks, Canada geese, and sandhill crane from the Pacific North American Flyway have been screened for Campylobacter spp.
(15) The ventilatory activity of the anterior and posterior groups of air sacs was simulated in unidirectionally-ventilated geese and the resultant flow of air in the mediodorsal secondary bronchi was used as an indicator of the route which air followed through the lung.
(16) These studies were carried out to compare certain hepatic microsomal drug-metabolizing enzymes of quail, ducks, geese, chickens, turkeys and rats.
(17) Although the introduction of these chemicals has been beneficial in reducing environmental contamination, some side-effects on wildlife have still been discernible and carbophenothion has now been withdrawn from use in Scotland owing to the deaths of wintering geese from carbophenothion poisoning.
(18) Fossil evidence suggests that these two groups of geese had a common ancestor 4-5 million years ago.
(19) Liver slices from geese, ducks (Aylesbury X Pekin) and chickens contained low UDP-glucuronyl transferase and high sulphate conjugation enzyme activities, whereas the reverse was found in Khaki-Campbell ducks.
(20) Psittacosis virus was not recovered from any of the birds examined, but a percentage of migrating geese had psittacosis antibodies.