duck vs normal

duck

noun
  • One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve. 

  • A long-necked medical urinal for men. 

  • A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related. 

  • Trousers made of such material. 

  • A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. 

  • A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games. 

  • The flesh of a duck used as food. 

  • An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet. 

  • A term of endearment; pet; darling. 

  • A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace. 

  • A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.) 

  • Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling. 

  • A cairn used to mark a trail. 

  • A playing card with the rank of two. 

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

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

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

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

  • To enter a place for a short moment. 

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

  • To evade doing something. 

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

  • To bow. 

normal

noun
  • A line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane. 

  • The usual state. 

  • A person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles. 

  • A person who is healthy, normal, as opposed to one who is morbid. 

adj
  • Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself. 

  • Which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution. 

  • Which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K. 

  • Describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon. 

  • According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern. 

  • In the default position, set for the most frequently used route. 

  • Which commutes with its adjoint. 

  • In which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency (see normal mode). 

  • Which commutes with its conjugate transpose. 

  • In whose representation in a given base b ≥ 2, for every positive integer n, the bⁿ possible strings of n digits follow a uniform distribution. 

  • Perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface. 

  • In which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods. 

  • Being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively. 

  • teaching teachers how to teach (to certain norms) 

  • Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution. 

  • Which has a normal distribution; which is associated with a random variable that has a normal distribution. 

  • Which is pre-compact. 

  • With cosets which form a group. 

  • Which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology. 

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