Duck (disambiguation)

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Duck may refer to:

Birds

Ducks are a group of water birds.
Domestic duck
Duck (food), the meat from such birds
Wood duck, a perching duck.

Vehicles

Colloquial name for a CitroÃ«n 2CV.
DUKW, commonly pronounced duck, an amphibious vehicle.
J2F Duck amphibious aircraft from Grumman

Computer software

Cyberduck, an FTP program released under the GPL.
Duck Typing, In programming, a form of dynamic typing where a variable's value itself determines what it can do.

Materials and garments

"Duck tape" is a mispronunciation of duct tape.
Cotton duck, a type of textile
A pair of trousers in the 1920's / 1930's. Frequently referred to by the author W. Somerset Maugham.

Entertainment and fiction and media

DUCK, the FourCC for The Duck Corporation's TrueMotion S video codec
Daffy Duck, a fictional character of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Scrooge McDuck, fictional characters of Walt Disney.
Duck (film), a 2005 award-winning film by Nic Batterau
Duck Records, a record label
Duck the Great Western Engine, nickname for Montague, a steam locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry.
Duck!, an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre, a 2006 film about a fictional school shooting.
Dr. Donald Mallard, a character on NCIS. Mostly due to his name, Dr. Donald Mallard, M.D., M.E., is affectionately called "Ducky" by his co-workers and friends. He is rarely called by his first name.
Howard the Duck, a comic book and film character.
Ducky, a character in the Land Before Time series of films.
A fictional race of sentient creatures, similar in appearance to actual ducks, in the Glorantha setting for the fantasy role-playing game RuneQuest and in at least one Japanese Console RPG.

Symbols

The AFLAC duck, a US company logo.
A sports team mascot. The three most notable Ducks are the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, minor league baseball's Long Island Ducks and the University of Oregon Ducks.

Miscellaneous

An affectionate phrase, often used in Stoke-on-Trent and the East Midlands (particularly Leicestershire) in England
"To duck" is a verb meaning "to bend down or stoop down, as if to go under something".
Duck (cricket), a cricketing term denoting a batsman being dismissed with a score of zero.
Duck, North Carolina, a small town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Duck Duck Goose, a children's game.
Emma Duck, a British athlete.
A cave passage nearly filled with water - also in some countries a very short cave sump.
A pile of three stacked rocks used to mark an off-trail hiking route.
Antis (duck in Lithuanian) - an influential Lithuanian postmodernist rock band that existed in the late eighties.
Any building in the shape of something associated with it; or an irrelevant design element in a chart. See Big duck
See Rubber duck (disambiguation)
A lead weight used by draftsmen to hold splines in place, named because of their resemblance to ducks. See Spline (device).

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than their relatives the swans and geese, and may be found in
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Domesticated ducks are ducks that are raised for meat, eggs and down. Many ducks are also kept for show, as pets or for their ornamental value. Almost all of the varieties of domesticated ducks are descended from the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos
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worldwide view.

See also duck (disambiguation)

Duck refers to the meat of several species of bird in the Anatidae family, found in both fresh and salt water. Duck is eaten in many cuisines around the world.
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A. sponsa

Binomial name
Aix sponsa
Linnaeus, 1758

Nesting (light green), wintering (blue) and year-round (dark green) ranges of A. sponsa.

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CitroÃ«n 2CV (French: deux chevaux, literally "two horses", from the tax horsepower rating) was an economy car produced by the French automaker CitroÃ«n from 1948 to 1990. It is considered one of their most iconic cars.
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DUKW (popularly pronounced DUCK) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was originally designed inside General Motors Corporation during World War II for transporting goods and troops over land and water and for use approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious
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An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian), is a vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water - just like an amphibian.
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The Grumman J2F Duck was a single-engine amphibious biplane. It was originally designated as the Grumman G-15. It was produced from 1933 to 1945.

The Duck's main pontoon was part of the fuselage, making it a flying boat despite the similarity to a conventional
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Cyberduck is a graphical open source FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X licensed under the GPL. It supports FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), using AUTH TLS as well as uploading and downloading by drag and drop and is able to synchronise files and directories.
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GNU General Public License
Author: Free Software Foundation
Version: 3
Copyright on the license: Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Publication date: 29 June 2007
OSI approved: Yes
Debian approved: Yes
Free Software:
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In computer programming, duck typing is a style of dynamic typing in which an object's current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics, rather than its inheritance from a particular class.
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In computer science, a type system defines how a programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact.
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Cotton duck (from Dutch doek,"linen canvas"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. There is also linen duck, which is less often used.
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A FOURCC (literally, four-character code) is a sequence of four bytes used to uniquely identify data formats. The concept originated in the OSType scheme used in the Macintosh system software and was adopted for the Amiga/Electronic Arts Interchange File Format
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On2 Technologies ((AMEX: ONT )), formerly known as The Duck Corporation, is a small publicly-traded company (on the American Stock Exchange) that designs proprietary and standards-based video codec technology.
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Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball" characters that emerged in the 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as
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Donald Duck

First appearance The Wise Little Hen (Silly Symphonies), 1934^[1]
Created by Dick Lundy
Voiced by Clarence Nash (1934-1985), Tony Anselmo (1985-present)
Also known as Paperinik Donald Duck
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Daisy Duck

First appearance Don Donald, 1937; Mr. Duck Steps Out, 1940
Created by Walt Disney Studios
Voiced by See below
Also known as Donna Duck, Super Daisy Daisy Duck
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Scrooge McDuck

"Scrooge McDuck, the Richest Duck in the World", by Carl Barks

First appearance Donald Duck Four Color #178 Christmas on Bear Mountain, 1947 (created by Barks in July 1947)
Created by Carl Barks
Voiced by
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IMDb profile
Duck is a 2005 award-winning film by director/writer/producer Nic Bettauer. The film is essentially a dystopian view of the near future (2009).

Selected Cast

Philip Baker Hall ... Arthur
Bill Brochtrup ... Leopold
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