duck

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It's about a duck that falls asleep while playing hide and seek.

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Quick take

small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of duck gathered in one view.

noun

small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

noun

(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

noun

flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for duck.

noun

small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

noun

(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

noun

flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

noun

a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

verb

to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"

verb

submerge or plunge suddenly

verb

dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"

verb

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

Example sentences

It's about a duck that falls asleep while playing hide and seek.

If you just want to socialize with your coworkers, duck out early and hit the pub.

Or are there other solutions?Donald: I dont want to duck your question entirely.

As I mentioned earlier, the first cognitive revolution was stimulated by the achievements of automata, much as today, and complex devices were constructed to simulate real objects and their functioning: the digestion of a duck, a flying bird, and so on.

It adopted JavaScript's duck-types but lost the simplicity of the language; it adopted Haskell's algebraic types, but lost the control over side-effects; it adopted Java's OO types, but again, lost their static-type simplicity.

But JavaScript uses duck typing because it can keep the language itself dead-simple and easy; Haskell uses those sometimes-hard-to-grasp algebraic types because they offer safety and carefully controlled side-effects; Java has a basic OO type system because it offers some safety while keeping the language relatively simple.

While it is certainly true that sometimes "named types" are better while other times duck-typing is more convenient, or that sometimes you want simple mutability and sometimes you don't, or that sometimes pattern matching is better than polymorphism and sometimes the other way around, in 99% of the cases, either of these approaches works well.

It makes you wonder if those of us in wealthy democracies are actually experiencing a peculiarly 21st century form of passive aggressive oppression where we may be "free" but monitored and essentially feel helpless and the fact that these unknown hackers are able to duck and evade the same forces that can hunt and kill terrorists with disregard of sovereignty makes them look like folk heroes.