birds of a feather

/burd/US // bɜrd //UK // (bɜːd) //

鸟语花香,鸟类,鸟儿们,鸟儿们的故事

Related Words

fowl禽类,禽鸟,禽鸟类,鸟类 game游戏,游戏中,游戏中的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.
- : a fowl or game bird.
- : Sports. clay pigeon. a shuttlecock.
- : Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.
- : Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.
- : Cooking. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.
- : Southern U.S. a bobwhite.
- : Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman.
- : Archaic. the young of any fowl.
- : the bird, Slang. disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage.scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird.an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to catch or shoot birds.
- : to bird-watch.

Phrases

bird has flown, the
bird in the hand
bird of passage
birds and the bees, the
birds of a feather (flock together)
catbird seat
early bird catches the worm
eat like a bird
for the birds
free as a bird
kill two birds with one stone
little bird told me
naked as a jaybird
rare bird

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmatching pair

Synonyms

bobbsey twins波布西双胞胎,波布西双胞胎姐妹,波普西双胞胎,波贝斯双胞胎 close friends挚友,密友,亲近的朋友,亲密的朋友 compadres同伴们,同志们,伙伴们,同伴 comrades同志们,伙伴们,战友们,同志 couple夫妇,夫妻,一对夫妇,情侣 friends朋友们,朋友,友人,好友 matching set匹配套装,配套,搭配组合,匹配的套装 pair对,对子,对的

Examples

During courtship and even while mating, the birds pull off a similar feat, mimicking the calls and wingbeat noises of many bird species at once, a new study shows.
The results strongly suggest that naked mole-rats learn their chirp dialects, he says — much as do people, dolphins and some birds.
Descended from birds, the three-eyed, feather-covered creatures lived on a frigid planet with a methane-based atmosphere and gravity 11 times stronger than that on Earth, which, according to 2951 documentation, was now a planet called “Terra.”
Both farms were put in isolation amid fears of the virus spreading to dogs, cats, cattle and even birds.
Members, who are grouped by their immediate neighborhoods, use the app to report bird sightings and alert others about missing pets.
It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
Exactly when the transition to modern domestic creature took place, for a bird that is wild to this day, is controversial.
Mistletoes on mesquite trees in central Mexico have been linked to a greater abundance of tropical bird species.
He really believed that enumerating the bird population gave understanding.
Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.
The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
Many of his bird neighbors,p. 31 for instance, liked the same things to eat that he did.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.
- : a fowl or game bird.
- : Sports. clay pigeon. a shuttlecock.
- : Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.
- : Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.
- : Cooking. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.
- : Southern U.S. a bobwhite.
- : Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman.
- : Archaic. the young of any fowl.
- : the bird, Slang. disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage.scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird.an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to catch or shoot birds.
- : to bird-watch.

Examples

During courtship and even while mating, the birds pull off a similar feat, mimicking the calls and wingbeat noises of many bird species at once, a new study shows.

The results strongly suggest that naked mole-rats learn their chirp dialects, he says — much as do people, dolphins and some birds.

Descended from birds, the three-eyed, feather-covered creatures lived on a frigid planet with a methane-based atmosphere and gravity 11 times stronger than that on Earth, which, according to 2951 documentation, was now a planet called “Terra.”

Both farms were put in isolation amid fears of the virus spreading to dogs, cats, cattle and even birds.

Members, who are grouped by their immediate neighborhoods, use the app to report bird sightings and alert others about missing pets.

It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.

While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.

Exactly when the transition to modern domestic creature took place, for a bird that is wild to this day, is controversial.

Mistletoes on mesquite trees in central Mexico have been linked to a greater abundance of tropical bird species.

He really believed that enumerating the bird population gave understanding.

Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.

The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

Many of his bird neighbors,p. 31 for instance, liked the same things to eat that he did.