buck | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. buck, long horse, vaulting horse | a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting. |
| ~ gymnastic horse, horse | a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs. |
n. (possession) | 2. buck, clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill | a piece of paper money worth one dollar. |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| ~ bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, federal reserve note, government note, greenback, bill, note | a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank).; "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes" |
n. (person) | 3. buck, pearl buck, pearl sydenstricker buck | United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973). |
| ~ missioner, missionary | someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country. |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
n. (artifact) | 4. buck, horse, sawbuck, sawhorse | a framework for holding wood that is being sawed. |
| ~ framework | a structure supporting or containing something. |
| ~ trestle | sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop. |
n. (animal) | 5. buck | mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope). |
| ~ eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials. |
| ~ stag | adult male deer. |
v. (social) | 6. buck | to strive with determination.; "John is bucking for a promotion" |
| ~ endeavor, endeavour, strive | attempt by employing effort.; "we endeavor to make our customers happy" |
v. (social) | 7. buck, go against | resist.; "buck the trend" |
| ~ react, oppose | act against or in opposition to.; "She reacts negatively to everything I say" |
v. (motion) | 8. buck, charge, shoot, shoot down, tear | move quickly and violently.; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" |
| ~ belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it, hasten | move fast.; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" |
| ~ dash, scoot, scud, dart, flash, shoot | run or move very quickly or hastily.; "She dashed into the yard" |
| ~ rip | move precipitously or violently.; "The tornado ripped along the coast" |
v. (motion) | 9. buck, hitch, jerk | jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.; "the yung filly bucked" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
deer | | |
n. (animal) | 1. cervid, deer | distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers. |
| ~ antler | deciduous horn of a member of the deer family. |
| ~ scut | a short erect tail. |
| ~ flag | a conspicuously marked or shaped tail. |
| ~ ruminant | any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments. |
| ~ cervidae, family cervidae | deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer. |
| ~ pricket | male deer in his second year. |
| ~ fawn | a young deer. |
| ~ cervus elaphus, red deer, american elk, wapiti, elk | common deer of temperate Europe and Asia. |
| ~ cervus unicolor, sambar, sambur | a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines. |
| ~ american elk, cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti, elk | large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male. |
| ~ cervus nipon, cervus sika, japanese deer, sika | small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers. |
| ~ odocoileus virginianus, virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail, whitetail deer | common North American deer; tail has a white underside. |
| ~ burro deer, mule deer, odocoileus hemionus | long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers. |
| ~ alces alces, elk, european elk, moose | large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America. |
| ~ dama dama, fallow deer | small Eurasian deer. |
| ~ capreolus capreolus, roe deer | small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers. |
| ~ caribou, greenland caribou, rangifer tarandus, reindeer | Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America. |
| ~ brocket | small South American deer with unbranched antlers. |
| ~ barking deer, muntjac | small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark. |
| ~ moschus moschiferus, musk deer | small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk. |
| ~ elaphure, elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer | large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds. |
| ~ withers | the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals. |
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