(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.
Surfer
Definition:
(n.) The surf duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surfers chase the reliable swell here when it's flat further west.
(2) The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
(3) Winter says he had "friends who would spend 14 hours trying to pull a Butthole Surfers song offline.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 11.09am GMT 9.35am GMT From Auckland You can always rely on surfers to keep an eye on the world.
(5) The mechanical work on the lung required during spontaneous breathing with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) was compared with different methods of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in nine young healthy athletes (surfers) at levels of 5, 10, 15, and 20 cm H2O.
(6) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(7) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
(8) A case of anterolateral first rib fracture produced by indirect trauma in a surfer is presented.
(9) According to campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) (pdf), at least one thing is clear: we need to build greater producer responsibility across the supply chain and hold principle polluters to account.
(10) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
(11) Authors describe a case of S. mansoni intestinal schistosomiasis in a young wind-surfer.
(12) The Lewis hunting response was seen only in the toes of the surfers.
(13) Ian Morgan, field operative for the Environment Agency (and keen local surfer), said he had never seen anything like the storm and waves in the 20 years he has lived on Portland.
(14) Photograph: Steven Morris Ian Morgan, field operative for the Environment Agency (and keen local surfer), said he had never seen anything like the storm and waves in the 20 years he had lived on Portland.
(15) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
(16) It used to be a leftie joke that the quickest way to crash a thinktank website was to post a research paper entitled The Swedish Model because not every net surfer would recognise another tribute to Scandinavian social democracy by its title alone.
(17) In nonsurfers, plasma cortisol approximated the decrease anticipated because of the circadian cycle but was elevated in the surfers.
(18) "I was a surfer as a kid, I was a surfer in Vietnam, I am still a surfer," he likes to say.
(19) Lifeguards patrol the beach in the summer and surfers are asked not to come within 100 metres of the tide line, to allow bathers a good stretch of safe water.
(20) Web surfers repeatedly caught obtaining music, films or video games illegally would first be warned; thereafter the agency would have the power to cut off their web access for up to a year.