different between drink vs duck

English

Alternative forms

• drinck (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: dr?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/, [d????k], [d???????k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English drynken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkan? (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *d?ren?- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *d?re?- (“to draw, glide”). Cognate with West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Low German drinken (“to drink”), Dutch drinken (“to drink”), German trinken (“to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka (“to drink”).

Verb

drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank or (southern US) drunk or (nonstandard) drinked, past participle drunk or (informal) drank or (nonstandard) drinked or (obsolete or dialectal) drunken or (obsolete or nonstandard) dranken)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
2. (transitive, metonymically) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

3. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
   • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond

     Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
4. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
   • , IV

     Let the purple violets drink the stream.

5. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

   • to drink the cooler air
6. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
   • 1630, John Taylor, A Proclomation or approbation from the King of execration, to euery nation, for Tobaccoes propogration

     And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, / Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.

Synonyms

• (consume (liquid) through the mouth): gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also Thesaurus:drink
• (consume alcoholic beverages): drink alcohol, hit the sauce

Derived terms

Related terms

• drunken, drunk, dranken

Descendants

• Chinese Pidgin English: drinkee, dlinkee

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English dryn?, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz. Compare Dutch drank.

Noun

drink (countable and uncountable, plural drinks)

1. A beverage.

2. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
3. A type of beverage (usually mixed).

4. A (served) alcoholic beverage.

5. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.

6. Alcoholic beverages in general.
7. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.

Usage notes

• A plainer term than more elevated term beverage. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.
• In the sense of any body of water the term is often associated with (a threat of) drowning.

Synonyms

• (served beverage): beverage, see also Thesaurus:beverage
• (served alcoholic beverage): beverage, see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
• (action of drinking): gulp, sip, swig
• (type of beverage): beverage
• (alcoholic beverages in general): alcohol

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Czech: drink
• ? Danish: drink
• ? French: drink
• ? Italian: drink
• ? Japanese: ???? (dorinku)
• ? Polish: drink

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch drinken, from Middle Dutch drinken, from Old Dutch drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkan?.

Verb

drink (present drink, present participle drinkende, past participle gedrink)

1. to drink

Czech

Etymology

From English drink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dr??k]

Noun

drink m inan

1. drink (a (mixed) alcoholic beverage)

Declension

Further reading

• drink in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• drink in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English drink.

Noun

drink c (singular definite drinken, plural indefinite drinks)

1. drink; a (mixed) alcoholic beverage

Inflection

Synonyms

• sjus c

Further reading

• “drink” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

drink

1. first-person singular present indicative of drinken
2. imperative of drinken

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English drink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?k/

Noun

drink m (plural drinks)

1. a reception or afterparty where alcohol is served

Further reading

• “drink” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English drink.

Noun

drink m (invariable)

1. drink (served beverage and mixed beverage)

   Synonym: bevanda

Further reading

• drink on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Low German

Verb

drink

1. first-person singular of drinken

Polish

Etymology

From English drink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr?ink/

Noun

drink m inan

1. cocktail (served alcoholic beverage)

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) drinkowa?

Further reading

• drink in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• drink in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

drink m (plural drinks)

1. Alternative form of drinque

Swedish

Etymology

From English drink

Pronunciation

Noun

drink c

1. drink; a (mixed) alcoholic beverage

Declension

Related terms

• drinkare

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?k, IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dukken, from Old English *ducan, *duccan (“to duck”). Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”); a secondary verb akin to Middle English duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *d?ban? (“to dive”)). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).

Verb

duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)

1. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

2. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
   • c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him

     As some raw youth in country bred,
     To arms by thirst of honour led,
     When at a skirmish first he hears
     The bullets whistling round his ears,
     Will duck his head aside

3. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
   • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

     Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.

4. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

   • In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

5. (intransitive) To bow.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

     The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.

6. (transitive) To evade doing something.
7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to lower the head): duck down
• (to lower into the water): dip, dunk
• (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip

Coordinate terms

• (to lower the head or body to prevent it from being struck): hit the deck

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, d?ce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above. Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).

Alternative forms

• ducke (obsolete)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)

1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
7. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.

   A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.

   • 2007, Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," Newsday, 21 Feb.:

     The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.

8. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
9. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
10. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
11. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
12. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.

Hyponyms

• (bird): Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duck

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *d?c, from Proto-West Germanic *d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dw?g-, *dw?k-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.

Alternative forms

• dook, doock (Scotland)

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

2. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:

     He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.

3. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
   • 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 56:

     And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island […].

   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 74:

     A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.

Derived terms

• duck tape

Translations

Etymology 4

Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.

   And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).

2. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

   Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• ay up me duck
• duckie

References

• duck at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Birks, Steve (2005-01-26) , “The history of the Potteries dialect”, in BBC?^[2], retrieved 2014-11-19

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

duck

1. singular imperative of ducken