Buffel duck () A small duck (Charitonetta albeola) |
Decoy-duck (n.) A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy |
Duck (n.) A pet |
Duck (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. |
Duck (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. |
Duck (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. |
Duck (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it |
Duck (v. t.) To bow |
Duck (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear |
Duck (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly |
Duck (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. |
Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
Duck-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of a duck. |
Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck |
Duck's-meat (n.) Duckweed. |
Duck's-bill (a.) Having the form of a duck's bill. |
Duck's-foot (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). |
Force (v. t.) To stuff |
Force (n.) A waterfall |
Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind |
Force (n.) Power exerted against will or consent |
Force (n.) Strength or power for war |
Force (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things |
Force (n.) Validity |
Force (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion |
Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible |
Force (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence |
Force (n.) To do violence to |
Force (n.) To obtain or win by strength |
Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence |
Force (n.) To put in force |
Force (n.) To exert to the utmost |
Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. |
Force (n.) To provide with forces |
Force (n.) To allow the force of |
Force (v. i.) To use violence |
Force (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything |
Force (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight |
Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves |
Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure |
Muscovy duck () A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil. |
Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth. |
Sea duck () Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe. |
Vicissy duck () A West Indian duck, sometimes domesticated. |
tour de force | a masterly or brilliant feat |
drive thrust driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
force out force-out force play force | a putout of a base runner who is required to run, the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base, the shortstop got the runner at second on a force |
ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
ducks and drakes | a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water |
cinch breeze picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
violence force | an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists), he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one |
reconnaissance in force | an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information) |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
canvasback canvasback duck Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup scaup duck bluebill broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup lesser scaup duck lake duck Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
mandarin duck Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck musk duck Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser fish duck sawbill sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
duck down | down of the duck |
Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
bird shot buckshot duck shot | small lead shot for shotgun shells |
duck | a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing and tents |
force pump | pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure |
lubricating system force-feed lubricating system force feed pressure-feed lubricating system pressure feed | mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings |
effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
force forcefulness strength | physical energy or intensity, he hit with all the force he could muster, it was destroyed by the strength of the gale, a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man |
force | a powerful effect or influence, the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them |
act of God force majeure vis major inevitable accident unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
duck | flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) |
duck sauce hoisin sauce | a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment |
duck pate | a pate made from duck liver |
cold duck | pink sparkling wine originally from Germany |
Force | formed in as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders, became one of PLO's elite units, has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Loyalist Volunteer Force | a terrorist group formed in in Northern Ireland, seeks to prevent the peace process, murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace |
United Self-Defense Force of Colombia United Self-Defense Group of Colombia Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia AUC | a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups, is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members, the AUC conducted over assassinations in one year |
defense defence defense force defence force | an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack, he joined the defense against invasion |
sales department sales division sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
labor force labor pool | the source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
task force | a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective |
United States Air Force Academy US Air Force Academy | a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Air Force |