Duck vs. Turkey — What's the Difference?

Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and geese, which are also members of the same family.

Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye [ˈtyɾcije]), officially the Republic of Turkey, is a country bridging Europe and Asia. It shares borders with Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea to the west.

A waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

A country comprising the whole of the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia, with a small portion in south-eastern Europe to the west of Istanbul; population 78,700,000 (estimated 2015); official language, Turkish; capital, Ankara.

A pure white thin-shelled bivalve mollusc found off the Atlantic coasts of America.

A large North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) that has brownish plumage and a bare wattled head and neck and is widely domesticated for food.

An amphibious transport vehicle

The flesh of this bird, used as food.

A quick lowering of the head.

A related bird (Meleagris ocellata syn. Agriocharis ocellata) of Mexico and Central America, brilliantly colored and having eyelike spots on its tail.

Dear; darling (used as an informal or affectionate form of address, especially among cockneys)

A person considered inept or undesirable.

A strong linen or cotton fabric, used chiefly for work clothes and sails

A failure, especially a failed theatrical production or movie.

A batsman's score of nought

(Sports) Three consecutive strikes in bowling.

Lower the head or the body quickly to avoid a blow or missile or so as not to be seen

The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

Push or plunge (someone) under water, either playfully or as a punishment

(countable) A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

Refrain from playing a winning card on a particular trick for tactical reasons

(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

Any of various wild or domesticated waterbirds of the family Anatidae, characteristically having a broad flat bill, short legs, and webbed feet.

(countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).

A female duck.

An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

The flesh of a duck used as food.

A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

(Slang) A person, especially one thought of as peculiar.

A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.

Often ducks (used with a sing. verb) Chiefly British A dear.

A failure.

A quick lowering of the head or body.

A foolish or inept person.

A plunge under water.

A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

A durable, closely woven heavy cotton or linen fabric.

Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

Ducks Clothing made of duck, especially white pants.

Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

An amphibious military truck used during World War II.

A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

A similar vehicle used for civilian purposes, as to evacuate flood victims or for sightseeing tours. In both senses also called DUKW.

A person who does something thoughtless or annoying;

To lower quickly, especially so as to avoid something

Flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

To evade; dodge

An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;

To push (a person, for example) suddenly under water.

Wild turkey of Central America and northern South America

In bridge, to deliberately play a card that is lower than (an opponent's card).

To lower the head or body.

To move swiftly, especially so as to escape being seen

To submerge the head or body briefly in water.

To evade a responsibility or obligation. Often used with out

In bridge, to lose a trick by deliberately playing lower than one's opponent.

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

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

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

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

(intransitive) To bow.

(transitive) To evade doing something.

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

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

(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.

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

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

(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.

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

Synonym of lame duck

(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.

A faggot; a meatball made from offal.

A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.

(in plural) Trousers made of such material.

A term of endearment; pet; darling.

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

A pet; a darling.

A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, - used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

Any bird of the subfamily Anatinæ, family Anatidæ.

A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

Flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

A heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents

To move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away;

Submerge or plunge suddenly

Dip into a liquid;

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);