English Dictionary

duck

IPA（発音記号）

/dʌk/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

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

日本語の意味

すばやく頭や体を下げる、または身を低くして（何かに当たらないように）避けること

When the ball flew toward him, he had to duck to avoid getting hit.

ボールが彼に向かって飛んできたとき、彼はぶつからないようにとっさに身をかがめた。

意味（1）

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

Duck! There's a branch falling off the tree!

意味（2）

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

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

意味（3）

(transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.

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

意味（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[…]

意味（5）

(intransitive) To bow.

The Learned pate / Duckes to the Golden Foole.

意味（6）

(transitive) To evade doing something.

Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.

意味（7）

(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.

The music is ducked under the voice.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.

I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?

ducks （ present singular third-person ）

ducking （ participle present ）

ducked （ participle past ）

ducked （ past ）