bird | Lernwerd

Forms

1.An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- Ducks and sparrows are birds.
- The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.
2.A man, fellow.(slang)
- "Ah, he's a funny bird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.
- "But you think he's right?" "Could be. They're rum birds, all right."
- "What I mean - I expect that old, red-headed bird at the office sent you round with no other purpose."
3.A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.(colloquial)
- Mike went out with his bird last night.
- Are you calling me “darlin’”? / Are you calling me “bird”?
- And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.
4.An aircraft.(slang)
- Any of our birds squawking?
- “Cabin cleaners? They have worked on this bird. Don't you know you've always got to clean up after the cleaners? What they don't teach you in school these days.”

1.To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
2.To transmit via satellite.
- After being sent by fast car to Tel Aviv the cassettes would be 'birded' by satellite to the USA and London.
- Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.
3.To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
4.To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.

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Etymology tree

Old English bridd

Middle English brid

English bird