(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.
Steamer
Definition:
(n.) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
(n.) A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
(n.) A road locomotive for use on common roads, as in agricultural operations.
(n.) A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
(n.) The steamer duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3 Using a bamboo or metal steamer, cook for about 12 to 15 minutes (depending on size).
(2) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(3) Interrupting the avian wall of metal are reclaimed Tibetan cooking vessels: a kettle, a wok, a cheap aluminum steamer.
(4) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
(5) He never got on with his overbearing mother, Rosalind, but idealised his father Edward, who, as captain of the former passenger steamer Rawalpindi, had gone down with his ship and 263 men after the attack by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in November 1939.
(6) His grandfather was a guard on the Flying Scotsman and his father started as a purser on the Clyde steamers, later rising to white-collar status in British Rail's property division.
(7) We are turning everything back to basics, back to the way it was when it was a pub over 100 years ago.” • hovellingboatinn.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs 11.30am–9.30pm, Fri and Sat 11.30am-11pm, Sun noon-4pm The Conqueror Alehouse, Ramsgate Named after a two-funnelled paddle steamer that plied the route from Ramsgate to France at the beginning of the 20th century, the Conqueror’s walls are covered in black and white photos of the ship and its crew.
(8) 7 Place the pudding on to the steamer rack or makeshift steaming platform.
(9) They took a steamer on the Thames for Bordeaux, then began to walk up the valley of the Garonne, sleeping in fields, singing and drawing portraits for money.
(10) The gelatinization of starch granules proceeded faster in the soaked rice and by the excess water method than that in the nonsoaked rice and by the steamer method.
(11) 4 Turn on the steamer or place your improvised steaming pan over a medium heat.
(12) The look is very much that which might have graced the biceps of tough postwar sailors who docked their tramp steamers in Pacific ports and drank rum all the way to the tattoo parlour.
(13) To improvise a stove-top steamer, fill a large pan with a 5-6cm of water and place a trivet or an inverted saucer in it (to keep the pudding basin from touching the base of the pan).
(14) Remember to top up the water in the steamer regularly throughout the cooking time.
(15) After a few seconds, when the milk has risen visibly, quickly submerge the steamer's tip, holding it half-way to the bottom of the jug to heat the milk until the side of the jug gets too hot to touch.
(16) Purge any water that's condensed in your steamer (if your steam becomes watery over time, your machine probably needs descaling).
(17) In this new world, less brave but maybe more mature, the person who controls the steamer calls the tune.
(18) Trains would take cross-Channel passengers to a pier with a hotel attached called Port Victoria, where they could catch steamers to Belgium and cut a few minutes from journey times offered by rival companies.
(19) Repeat the process with the rest of the momos, then transfer them all to a steamer set at a high heat.
(20) Serves 4-6 2 medium oranges, zested 125g unsalted butter, soft 125g dark brown soft sugar 2 large eggs 5-7cm root ginger, grated 3 tsp ground ginger 75g stem ginger, roughly chopped 125g plain flour 1½ tsp baking powder 1 Prepare a steamer (improvised, if necessary, using a trivet or metal pastry cutter in the bottom of a large, lidded saucepan), heating a few centimetres of water in it over a medium heat.