Duck vs Cheese - What's the difference?

In context|uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between duck and cheese

is that duck is (uncountable) the flesh of a duck used as food while cheese is (uncountable) a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

In context|slang|lang=en terms the difference between duck and cheese

is that duck is (slang) a playing card with the rank of two while cheese is (slang) to anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

As verbs the difference between duck and cheese

is that duck is to lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something while cheese is to prepare curds for making cheese or cheese can be (slang) to stop; to refrain from or cheese can be (gaming|slang) to use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.

As nouns the difference between duck and cheese

is that duck is an aquatic bird of the family anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet or duck can be a tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth or duck can be a term of endearment; pet; darling while cheese is (uncountable) a dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk or cheese can be (slang) wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

As an interjection cheese is

(photography).

duck

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

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

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

* Fielding

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

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

* Dryden

In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

(Jonathan Swift)

To bow.

* Shakespeare

The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.

To evade doing something.

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

* 2007 , Alexander U. Case, Sound FX: unlocking the creative potential of recording studio effects (page 183)

The music is ducked under the voice.

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

Derived terms

* duck and cover * duck out

Etymology 2

From (etyl) ducke, dukke, doke, dokke, douke, duke, from (etyl) duce, .

Noun

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

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

(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.

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

(slang) A playing card with the rank of two.

A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.

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," , 21 Feb.:

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

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

(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

* break one’s duck, break the duck * Burdekin duck * dabbling duck * decoy duck * diving duck * duck-arsed * duckbill * duck-billed * duckboard * duck-footed * duckling * duckness * ducks and drakes * ducks on the pond * hunt where the ducks are * lame duck * Lord love a duck * odd duck * Peking duck * rubber duck * * shelduck * sitting duck * take to something like a duck to water

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Etymology 3

From (etyl) doek, from (etyl) doeck, .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (Scotland)

Noun

(en noun)

A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.

* 1912 , , "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.

Trousers made of such material.

*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 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 […].

Etymology 4

(central England). From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

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).

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

Ay up duck , ow'a'tha?

Synonyms

* See

Derived terms

* ay up me duck

References

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cheese

English

(wikipedia cheese)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) chese, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or , i.e. cheesy.

(uncountable, slang) Money.

(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.

(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

(vulgar, slang) Smegma.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

* 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation

It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia ).

A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(De Quincey)

(Thackeray)

Hyponyms

* See also

Antonyms

* fill (dummy pattern to increase pattern density)

Derived terms

* Abertam cheese * American cheese * apple-cheese * * Asiago cheese * basket cheese * bleu cheese * blue cheese * Bonchester cheese * bread and cheese * brick cheese * Brussels' cheese * Buxton Blue cheese * Cabrales cheese * Caerphilly cheese * Caithness cheese * Camembert cheese * cauliflower cheese * chalk and cheese * Chaumes cheese * Cheddar cheese * cheese and bread * cheese-bail * cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard * cheese-borer * cheese-bowl * cheese-box * cheese-bug * cheeseburger * cheese-cement * cheesecake * cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout * cheese-cratch * cheese-crate * cheese curds * cheese-cutter, cheesecutter * cheesed, cheesed off * cheese dip * cheese dish * cheese down * cheese fingers * cheese fly * cheese grater * cheese-hake, cheese-heck * cheese-head * cheese-headed * cheese-hoop * cheese-hopper, cheesehopper * cheese-knife * cheese ladder * cheeseling * cheese-maggot * cheesemaker * cheese mite * cheese-moat * cheese-mold, cheese-mould * cheesemonger * cheese off * cheese-pale * cheese-parer * cheese-paring, cheeseparing * cheese-plate * cheese powder * cheese-press * cheeser * cheese rack/cheese-rack * cheese-ramekin * cheese-rennet * cheese-room * cheese-running * cheesery * the Cheeses * cheese-scoop * cheese skipper * cheese slaw * cheese slicer * cheese spread * cheese straw * cheese-taster * cheese-toaster * cheese-tub * cheese-vat * cheese-water * cheesewire * cheesewood * cheese-wring * cheesine * cheesing * cheesy * * Cheshire cheese * Chevington cheese * * Chihuahua cheese * cock cheese * Colby cheese * Colby-Jack cheese * Coon cheese * Cornish Yarg cheese * cotija cheese * cottage cheese * Cougar Gold cheese * cream cheese, cream-cheese * Criollo cheese * Cuba cheese * curd cheese * damson cheese, damson-cheese * Danish Blue cheese * Derby cheese * Dorset Blue Vinney cheese * Dorstone cheese * Double Gloucester cheese * Dovedale cheese * Duberry cheese * Dunlop cheese * Dutch cheese * * Edam cheese * Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese * Exmoor Blue cheese * farmer cheese, farmer's cheese * feta cheese * Gloucester cheese * goat cheese * Gouda cheese * Grana Padano cheese * grated cheese * green cheese * * hard cheese * head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese * hoop cheese * Horeb cheese * human cheese * Huntsman cheese * Idiazabal cheese * Ilchester cheese * jack cheese * * Jarlsberg cheese * Lancashire cheese * Leicester cheese * Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese * lemon cheese * Liederkranz cheese * Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese * Lincolnshire Poacher cheese * Lymeswold cheese * macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese * make butter and cheese of * make cheeses * Manchego cheese * Maytag Blue cheese * mousetrap cheese * mozzarella cheese * Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, * Nabulsi cheese * * nipcheese * * Oaxaca cheese * Oka cheese * Parmesan cheese * pepper jack cheese * pick-cheese * pimento cheese * Pinconning cheese * pizza cheese * pot cheese * processed cheese * Provel cheese * rat cheese * Red Leicester cheese * Red Windsor cheese * ricotta cheese * romano cheese * ruen cheese * sage-cheese * Sage Derby cheese * * Sakura cheese * say cheese * Shropshire Blue cheese * Single Gloucester cheese * slip cheese * smoked cheese * sour milk cheese * Stilton cheese * Stinking Bishop cheese * store cheese * string cheese * Swaledale cheese * Swiss cheese * Testouri cheese * Teviotdale cheese * Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese * tip-cheese * toad-cheese, toad's cheese * Tyrolean grey cheese * * * Waterloo cheese * Wensleydale cheese * White Stilton cheese * Yunnan cheese * Zamorano cheese

Verb

(chees)

To prepare curds for making cheese.

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Interjection

(photography)

Say "cheese "! ... and there we are!

Etymology 2

Probably from (etyl) .

Noun

(-)

(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Derived terms

* big cheese * sub-cheese

Etymology 3

Verb

(chees)

(slang) To stop; to refrain from.

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Derived terms

* cheese it * cheesed off

Etymology 4

From cheesy.

Verb

(chees)

(gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter

You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

(gaming) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)

It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.

Synonyms

* (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game) rush, zerg 1000 English basic words