different between bird vs vireo

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bû(r)d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?d/, [b??]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [b??d]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English brid, from Old English bird, brid, bridd (“young bird, chick”), of uncertain origin and relation. Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.

The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid?18th Century.

Noun

bird (plural birds)

1. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
   • 2004, Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis, Seasons with Birds, page 50:

     The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.

2. (slang) A man, fellow. [from the mid-19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 24:

     The door opened and a tall hungry-looking bird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the desk.

   • 2006, Jeff Fields, Terry Kay, A cry of angels

     "Ah, he's a funny bird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.

3. (Britain, US, Australia, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
   • 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

     And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.

   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[2]

     The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.

   • 2017, David Weigel, The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, W. W. Norton & Company.

4. (Britain, Ireland, slang) Girlfriend. [from the early 20th c.]
5. (slang) An airplane.
6. (slang) A satellite.
   • 1988, Satellite communications. Jan-Oct. 1988

     Deployment of the fourth bird "should ensure that Inmarsat has sufficient capacity in orbit in the early 1990s, taking into account the possibility of launch failures and the age of some of the spacecraft in the Inmarsat first generation system

   • 1992, Cable Vision

     Will a government- backed APSTAR satellite knock out a planned AsiaSat II bird?

   • 2015, John Fuller, Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987, Springer ?ISBN, page 384

     In reality, the Air Force was never able to place a bird in orbit that quickly.

7. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
   • 1494–1536, William Tyndale, Bible, Matthew 8:20

     The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.

8. (Britain, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
9. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

   Synonym: the finger

   • 2002, The Advocate, "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55.

     For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped the bird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.

   • 2003, James Patterson and Peter De Jonge, The Beach House, Warner Books, page 305,

     Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one.

10. A yardbird.

Synonyms

• (member of class Aves): fowl, avian
• (man): chap, bloke, guy
• (woman): broad, chick, dame, girl, lass
• See also Thesaurus:woman
• See also Thesaurus:girl

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:bird

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• birb
• burd
• chirp
• ornithic
• ornithology
• squawk
• tweet
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:Gestures/middle finger

Verb

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)

1. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
2. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     These day-owls. That are birding in men's purses

Etymology 2

Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".

Noun

bird (plural birds)

1. (slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

Synonyms

• (prison sentence): porridge, stretch, time

Translations

Verb

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)

1. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bird”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• bird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aves on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Aves on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• bird at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• drib

English

Etymology

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireo (“I am green”).

Noun

vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)

1. Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
   • 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257,

     The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

   • 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72,

     Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

   • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,

     This^{[the white-eyed vireo]} is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
3. (in in the plural) The family Vireonidae.
   • 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282,

     Family Vireonidae

     Vireos

     The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

Usage notes

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

Derived terms

• shrike-vireo (genus Vireolanius)
• vireonine

Translations

Further reading

• Vireo (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Finnish

Noun

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

Declension

Anagrams

• viero

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”). See also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.re.o?/, [?u???eo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.re.o/, [?vi????]

Verb

vire? (present infinitive vir?re, perfect active viru?); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. I am verdant, green; I sprout new green growth.
2. I flourish; I am lively, vigorous.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

Noun

vire? m (genitive vire?nis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: vireo

References

• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vireo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.