(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.
Sarcelle
Definition:
(n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elusiveness is a quality he honed first in the streets, then at Sarcelle, then at Quimper, the French non-league club that decided to take a chance on him in 2009.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The riot in Sarcelle, a suburb to the north of Paris, in July 2014.
(3) Sarcelles is a modest 1950s-era suburb half an hour north by suburban train from Paris.
(4) In July, Sarcelles, a modest suburb, or banlieue, outside Paris, became notorious when footage of young men taking part in violent anti-Jewish rioting was broadcast across the globe in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
(5) A week before the Sarcelles attacks, video footage of what horrified witnesses described as a “pogrom” in central Paris swiftly went viral.
(6) Born in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris where Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez also grew up, Ben Yedder moved to Toulouse from the amateur side UJA Alfortville in 2010 and has scored 63 goals in 153 appearances.
(7) One Jewish woman in Sarcelles, who asked that her real name not be used, told me about growing up in Little Jerusalem alongside immigrants from all over both north and sub-Saharan Africa, both Jewish and not; her own parents were from Algeria and Tunisia.
(8) But I always worked hard.” Mohamed Coulibaly, the technical director of Sarcelles, agrees, telling L’Equipe last year that: “He was very frail.
(9) In Sarcelles that will make for a formidable military presence.
(10) Sarcelles today boasts one of the largest populations of Algerian origin in France, both Jewish and Muslim.
(11) Many European cities – London included – have tried a more systematic, socially responsible approach to population growth and overcrowding by building new towns on their peripheries, whether garden cities such as Letchworth and Basildon or dense high-rise districts like Paris's Sarcelles or Bratislava's Petržalka .
(12) She said that the rioters in July were not from Sarcelles; they came from other banlieues to wreak havoc and sow fear precisely because of the high number of Jews there who live cordially alongside their non-Jewish neighbours.
(13) Sarcelles both helped to create and, according to sociologist Dominique Schnapper, came to embody, the evolution of a kind of identity politics that at the time was entirely new to France, and at least theoretically went against the rigid diktats of secular Republican ideology.
(14) But she was keen to dispel the media’s image of Sarcelles as a hotbed of interethnic conflict and violence, describing it as a warm, friendly, racially mixed environment.
(15) Dominique Strauss-Kahn was mayor of Sarcelles from 1995 to 1997, not 1997-1999 as originally stated
(16) He was playing for his local team in Sarcelles, a northern suburb of Paris with abundant state-built tower blocks, high immigrant populations and low career prospects.
(17) In the 1980s and 1990s, almost 200 years after Clermont Tonnerre declared that “Jews should be denied everything as a nation, but granted everything as individuals”, Sarcelles developed into a model for the development of community activity in the public sphere, as its Jewish population began to use communal organisations to express an assertive collective identity in defiance of the republican model of French Jewish citizenship.