(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.
Trucker
Definition:
(n.) One who trucks; a trafficker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(2) On Thursday afternoon, Trump, seemingly oblivious to the announcement of the vote delay, met with a delegation of truckers at the White House, jumping into the cab of an 18-wheeler to pose for photographs, and telling them the vote was pressing ahead that night.
(3) This summation begins with a string of keywords: "trucker hats; undershirts called 'wifebeaters' worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon ; 'porno' or 'paedophile' moustaches; aviator glasses; Americana T-shirts for church socials, etc; tube socks; the late albums of Johnny Cash produced by Rick Rubin ; and tattoos."
(4) The hipster men of LA have a similarly fixed uniform: one afternoon I went to a museum and found myself watching a David Hockney installation with three thirtysomething guys all dressed in black, all wearing tedious trucker caps and all with ZZ Top beards.
(5) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(6) The call center staff, the taxi drivers and the truckers.
(7) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(8) Meanwhile, it has emerged that thousands of truckers are preparing to go head-to-head with the army in support of striking tanker drivers if the industrial action goes ahead.
(9) The covert operation began with two months of on-the-ground surveillance to identify the routines of the truckers, from where they ate and refuelled their vehicles to the river ferries and bridges they had to cross.
(10) Britain ‘poised to open door to thousands of migrant children’ Read more Richard Burnett, the Road Haulage Association’s chief executive, said the problems facing British truckers in Calais had become routine as he called for urgent action.
(11) Unite sources dismissed claims by Andrew Spence, the haulier who led a crippling fuel blockade 12 years ago, that thousands of truckers were prepared to support a strike by tanker drivers.
(12) Five's Ice Road Truckers pulled in 1.4 million and an 8% share, also in the 8pm hour.
(13) It was as if a nationwide drug legalisation policy had been written by a teenager, a gangster, a redneck trucker and a Chinese chemist.
(14) An improvised cardboard sign, scrawled with "La Rochelle, SVP" worked its magic on a trucker named Olivier and I was soon rolling into this sophisticated old port, perched vertiginously in the cockpit of the 18-wheel juggernaut.
(15) Having established the forest trails used by the truckers, the activists then worked on the paper trail.
(16) US officials have responded by ordering truckers under US contract to park at holding areas inside Afghanistan.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Naomi Wolf, photographed last week at Stony Brook University, NY: ‘I was mad at my own leftwing tribe.’ Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Observer For eight years, under Obama, my audiences were libertarian cowboys and red-state truckers; members of the military and police forces, who were appalled by what they were witnessing; and even conservatives, worried about our legacy of freedom.
(18) We had to work opportunistically, waiting for the best moments when the truckers were [distracted], talking to someone.” Nine trackers were attached, generating thousands of GPS coordinates.
(19) It seems that Netflix appeals to a variety of demographics – parents with kids that need to be entertained, teens, couples, truckers who use it to pass the time while stuck at a truck stop.
(20) We have a great bill, and I think we have a very good chance,” he said, adding: “Obamacare has inflicted great pain on American truckers.