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woodcock

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

Editorial note

Also Kevin Woodcock in Private Eye in the 90s had a cartoon working on this concept.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

noun

A simpleton.

noun

A borough and neighbouring township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for woodcock.

noun

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

noun

A simpleton.

noun

A borough and neighbouring township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

noun

A surname from Old English.

Example sentences

1

Also Kevin Woodcock in Private Eye in the 90s had a cartoon working on this concept.

2

I've also cleaned quite a few American woodcock, and I have never seen a tapeworm in the innards.

3

I remember Jim Woodcock as really inspirational - he was working with my PhD supervisor in 1987.

4

Janet Woodcock overruling her own team to push it through for her buddies.

5

They're tetrachromats, some species have multiple focal points, polarized vision, things like the woodcock's 360 vision, etc.

6

There are quite a few French woodcock preparations that include eating the guts, but I've never heard anything about tapeworms.

7

And I interacted quite a bit with Jim Davies, Jim Woodcock and Mike Spivey.

8

Both of them are legitimately wonderful and intelligent humans that I can only use positive adjectives to describe, but the one I was referring to in this was Jim Woodcock [2].

9

I actually had two PhD advisors [1]; Jim Woodcock and Simon Foster.

10

Bill Woodcock got the technical details utterly wrong.

11

PRMan's volume support in RIS is still pretty poor - even in 20 - they're still using generic Woodcock tracking which just doesn't work well, as the max extinction coefficient is global to the whole volume, so is very inefficient as you can't localise the step distance efficiently, or importance sample the density integration.

12

And yet nobody seems to have been harmed by the existence of these terms: (1) Sweetbread (2) Coconut Meat (3) Coconut Milk (4) Nutmeat (5) Headcheese (6) Welsh Rabbit (7) Rocky Mountain Oysters (8) Boston Cream Pie (9) Scotch Woodcock (10) Cold Duck None of which refer to the nominal food definition of the term in their name.

Quote examples

1

I’ve also just realised you’re the same nutter who was desperate to prove Bill Woodcock doesn’t have (and I quote) ”basic understanding of DNS”.

2

"This was not like a botnet-style DDoS," Woodcock told The Register.

3

From Bill Woodcock who first posted this email: "In the short-term, this is a bad plan because it would cut the Russian man-on-the-street off from international news and perspectives, leaving them with only what the Russian government chooses to tell them.

Proper noun examples

1

Your statement completely opposes Quad9's official information as published on quad9.net, and what's more it doesn't align at all with Bill Woodcock's known advocacy for privacy.

2

That being said, my opinion is that this decision by FDA is an abomination — the second extremely questionable approval on Woodcock’s watch — and never should have happened.

3

Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House Ms.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use woodcock in a sentence?

Also Kevin Woodcock in Private Eye in the 90s had a cartoon working on this concept.

What does woodcock mean?

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

What part of speech is woodcock?

woodcock is commonly used as noun.