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# duck

«duck» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bird with a flat beak and webbed feet that swims and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (duck, ducks); verb (duck, ducks, ducked, ducking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A duck is a bird with a flat beak and webbed feet that swims and says «quack». A duck has 2 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#m1)

2) To duck means to bend down quickly so you are not hit or seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#m2)

3) In cricket, a duck is a score of zero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: birds counted on a pond or farm, with legs (2 each) and eggs; more come (add), some fly away (subtract); science: birds, webbed feet, waterproof feathers; a baby duck is a duckling; everyday life: feeding ducks at the park (oats or seeds are better than bread); stories: «The Ugly Duckling»

### examples

- There are 9 ducks on the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x1)
- 4 more ducks came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x2)
- Each duck has 2 legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x3)
- How many ducks are left if 3 fly away? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x4)
- The duck says quack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x5)
- Duck! The ball is coming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x6)
- The mother duck led her ducklings to the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x7)
- The batsman was out for a duck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x8)
- Out popped the duck and flew away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/#x9)

### note

Thing counted. Trap: legs: 2 per duck, but 4 per cow or dog. A male duck is a drake.

### In the corpora

- [Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/16/)
- [Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/12/)
- [Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/4/)
- [Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants you to give it space.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/5/)
- [Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «duck» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duck/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.