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stork

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stork.

Editorial note

So a tortoise is feminine even if it's a male, so's a sparrow, a mole, a goat or a stork.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

noun

A surname.

noun

(folklore or euphemistic) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stork.

noun

A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

noun

A surname.

noun

(folklore or euphemistic) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

noun

(cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Example sentences

1

So a tortoise is feminine even if it's a male, so's a sparrow, a mole, a goat or a stork.

2

If you are not familiar, the stork is a common answer given to children when they ask where babies come from without telling them about sex.

3

Establishing correlation between stork population and baby population is not establishing proof that storks bring babies to mothers.

4

Sit down with your kids (if you don't have one refer to a stork), and have some cool fun.

5

Just putting a stork-shaped tower in the middle of a long line in open terrain looks silly.

6

Someone asked him where he got the kids from, to which he answered the stork.

7

But I didn't see any hybrid between two obvious distant species, for example between an ostrich and a stork.

8

Can someone explain the part about cheap kids from the stork, please?

9

We finally realized birds migrate to Africa, with proof, when a stork arrived in Germany after surviving being shot by an arrow in Africa.

10

There's piles upon piles of human-generated music soullessly regurgitating stock patterns with inane lyrics since long before Alan Turing was even flown in by the stork.

11

But like you said, a really solid HTCondor rewrite with the Stork stuff baked in would pretty much be all anyone should need, I think.

12

Well, thank you for your technical contribution, but your lead strikes me as an anti-metaphor that should be avoided: I give names like Starburst and Stork to my cattle and form bonds with them.

Quote examples

1

The effort, dubbed “Operation Stork Speed,“ is the first deep look at the ingredients since 1998.

2

The 2300USD listing is from some separate seller called "Stork Group", not Whitelines.

3

The APG website [1] says "Two Austrian Power Giants — one in the shape of a stork and the other of a stag — were pre-tested statically and electrotechnically to verify their technical feasibility." So are the images just renderings?

4

In that comment, I wrote "A binary encoding of JS ASTs, maybe (arithmetic coders can achieve good compression; see Ben Livshits' JSZap from MSR, and earlier work by Michael Franz and Christian Stork at UCI).

Proper noun examples

1

I once told a software guy that our team's SWEs had migrated away from React and Node to Stork.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stork in a sentence?

So a tortoise is feminine even if it's a male, so's a sparrow, a mole, a goat or a stork.

What does stork mean?

A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

What part of speech is stork?

stork is commonly used as noun.