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Meaning bird meaning

What does bird mean?
Definitions in simple English

bird

A bird is a warm-blooded animal that has feathers and wings and lays eggs. Most birds can fly. A sparrow is a bird and so is a penguin, even though it cannot fly. When you give someone the bird, you give a vulgar hand gesture where only the middle finger is up. A bird is a penis.

bird

When you bird, you look for wild birds in their natural home and try to identify them.

bird

warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (= fowl) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food watch and study birds in their natural habitat (= shuttlecock) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers (= dame) informal terms for a (young) woman (= boo) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

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Topics bird topics

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Simple sentences

The early bird catches the worm.
He says that if he were a bird he would fly to me.
A goose is a water bird.
What's that bird?
If I had been a bird, I could have flown to you.
The bird flew away and was lost to sight.
What is this bird called?
I don't care if the early bird gets the worm, I want to sleep.
What is the name of this bird?
This dog and that fish are mine, but that bird not.
The bird is in the sky.
The goldfinch is a very interesting bird.
This bird has a bright plumage.
Which bird can not fly?
I'd rather be a bird than a fish.
It is difficult to shoot a bird flying in the air.
A gigantic bird came flying toward him.
I see a bird on the roof.
The bird on the roof is a crow.
We saw the bird when we visited Okinawa.
We saw a bird in the distance.
What do you call this bird in English?
I found a bird whose wing was severely damaged.
Were I a bird, I would fly to you.
The hunter shot at the bird.

Movie subtitles

It could've been a bird.
Well, hello, Mr. Love Bird!
Jerome found a bird's nest!
Does this word not sound like the death bird calling your name at midnight?
This bird you can't understand when he does talk.
Who's that bird?
There! August isn't bird-brained!
This bird McClure will be pie for him.
Just a bird in a gilded cage.
A bird in a gilded cage.
For he's only a bird In a gilded cage A beautiful sight to see Tweet-tweet.
A bird in a gilded cage?
A bird in a gilded cage, that's what I'd be.
Then a little bird sees it and swallows it.
Who's that bird? - The guy almost bankrupted me.
This bird in a cage is gonna button his own pants from now on.
You can't have a poor bird without a name.
We'll have to take what's here. A bird in hand is worth two in jail.
The actor playing Inspector Bird is Britisher Harry Stubbs, who had been in American films since 1929.
Inspector Bird was his first murder victim, but we know there are more to come, perhaps on a big scale.
Serious. It's a bird!
I'm gonna leave this bird flat on its so and so.
How do you think you're going to get it, my bright little bird?
You aren't lying to me, are you, my little bird?
My dear, sweet, pretty little bird, tell me that you hate me.
That's right, my little bird.
Ain't it so, my little bird?
My bird!
A bird in hand is worth two in jail.

News and current affairs

The DDT scare started with Carson's claim that its use had devastating effects on bird life.
Most of those who took the leaflets did not know that their eggs came from hens kept in cages so small that even one bird - the cages normally housed four - would be unable to fully stretch and flap her wings.
The Taliban's argument was simple: if your bird starts singing while you are praying, you will be distracted and your prayer will be nullified.
The influenza viruses established in humans for several decades originated from bird viruses.
Similar failings have exacerbated the consequences of today's bird-origin influenza epidemic in Vietnam, Thailand, and elsewhere.
A bird can survive inside a small cage and even lay eggs and bear descendants.
But just as a bird is happier in a cage the size of an auditorium and even happier when flying free, we walk better on a sidewalk three or ten meters wide.
For this reason, some colleagues and I have calculated the rate at which bird species became extinct in the recent past and the rate at which they will likely become extinct in the future.
Bird extinctions are our best window onto humanity's massive and irreversible environmental impact.
For every one of the world's 10,000 bird species, there may be 10 or perhaps even 100 other unknown species of animals, plants, or fungi.
For the 10,000 bird species, there should only be one extinction in each century.
Whereas bird taxonomists had described only 2,000 bird species by 1815, in the next 50 years they described about 5,000 more.
To get an accurate picture of extinction, we must adjust the total number of extinctions for the length of time science has known bird species.
His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist-Leninist revolution.
There's wisdom, which Iran's leaders should heed, in the old adage that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Officials in that region warned the government on December 16 of a surge in bird deaths, but it took 12 days for an investigation to begin.

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