Definitions for Bird
Bird
bird
Spelling: [burd]
IPA: /bɜrd/
Bird is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 28 anagrams from letters in Bird (bdir).
Definitions for Bird
noun
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any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
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a fowl or game bird.
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Sports.
clay pigeon.
a shuttlecock.
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Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity:
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Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.
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Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised:
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Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite.
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Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman.
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Archaic. the young of any fowl.
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the bird, Slang.
disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.:
scoffing or ridicule:
an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.
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Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player.
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Charles Christopher, Jr ("Bird") 1920–55, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Dorothy (Rothschild) 1893–1967, U.S. author.
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Sir Gilbert, 1862–1932, Canadian novelist and politician in England.
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Horatio William, 1863–1919, U.S. composer, organist, and teacher.
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John, 1729–75, American Revolutionary patriot.
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Matthew, 1504–75, English theologian.
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Quanah, Quanah.
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Theodore, 1810–60, U.S. preacher, theologian, and reformer.
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a male given name.
Idioms
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a little bird, Informal. a secret source of information:
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bird in the hand, a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates:
Also, bird in hand.
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birds of a feather, people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common:
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eat like a bird, to eat sparingly:
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for the birds, Slang. useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously:
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kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two aims with a single effort:
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the birds and the bees, basic information about sex and reproduction:
verb (used without object)
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to catch or shoot birds.
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to bird-watch.
Origin of Bird
before 900; Middle English byrd, bryd, Old English brid(d) young bird, chick
Examples for Bird
A barrel may sound hollow, but not a bird--this wiseacre acquaints us.
He really believed that enumerating the bird population gave understanding.
Exactly when the transition to modern domestic creature took place, for a bird that is wild to this day, is controversial.
The ornithopter has hinged planes which work like the wings of a bird.
Add the seasonings, mix thoroughly, and stuff into the bird.
And if the bird is smaller than we are accustomed to, so what?
On the right is a god who seems to be setting free a bird from his right hand.
This will permit the bird to be spread apart, as in Fig. 25.
Portlandia marathon—9 am-2:30 pm, IFCBecause what better time than Turkey Day to put on a bird on it?
Once the bird was fully cleaned out, it was time to put it on the scales.