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Definition: Canard |
CanardNoun1. A deliberately misleading fabrication. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Etymology: Canard \Ca*nard"\, noun. [French expression, properly, duck.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | Pertaining to an aerodynamic vehicle in which horizontal surfaces used for trim and control are forward of the main lifting surface; the horizontal trim and control surfaces in such an arrangement. (references) |
Literature | Canard A hoax. Cornelissen, to try the gullibility of the public, reported in the papers that he had twenty ducks, one of which he cut up and threw to the nineteen, who devoured it greedily. He then cut up another, then a third, and so on till nineteen were cut up; and as the nineteenth was gobbled up by the surviving duck, it followed that this one duck actually ate nineteen ducks - a wonderful proof of duck voracity. This tale had the run of all the papers, and gave a new word to the language. (French, cane, a duck.) (Quetelet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Extravagant or absurd story circulated as a hoax; a false report. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The canard surface normally produces positive (upwards) lift whereas a conventional tailplane normally produces a downforce.
Careful design of a canard aircraft can make it effectively "stall-proof" - the canard surface stalls first which tends to pitch the nose down and prevent the main wing from stalling.
Canard designs can sometimes have a more useful range of centre of gravity.
The wing operates in the downwash from the canard surface, which reduces its efficiency
It is often difficult to apply flaps to the wing in a canard design. Deploying flaps causes a large nose-down pitching moment, but in a conventional aeroplane this effect is considerably reduced by the increased downwash on the tailplane which produces a restoring nose-up pitching moment. With a canard design there is no tailplane to alleviate this effect. The Beech Starship attempted to overcome this problem with a swing-wing canard surface which swept forwards to counteract the effect of deploying flaps, but many canard designs have no flaps at all.
In order to achieve longitudinal stability, most canard designs feature a small canard surface operating at a high lift coefficient (CL), while the main wing, although much larger, operates at a much smaller CL and never achieves its full lift potential.Advantages
Disadvantages
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Canard."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
News | Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat. |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Canard |
| Specialty definitions using "canard": dart configuration. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Canard" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (canard, Drake, duck), Italian (canard). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Canard en fer-blanc (1967) Canard l'orange (1964) Le Canard l'orange (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Le canard sauvage, mâle et femelle (buffon) ... / Edouard Traviès. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Niger | The 2000 libel case involving Prime Minister Hama Amadou against one of the same Canard Libere journalists still was pending at year's end. (references) |
Niger | Two Canard Libere journalists, who were convicted of "undermining the morale of the armed forces" in 2000, still had not filed planned appeals by year's end. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Canard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.18% of the time. "Canard" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.18% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 31.82% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "canard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Canard | Last name | 200 | 38,443 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "canard": canard aircraft. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "canard": Canard-duchene. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "canard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lajm i rremë, ekzagjerim (exaggeration). (various references) | |
Arabic | إشاعة كاذبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скалъпена история, самолет с тикащо витло, лъжлив слух (grape vine). (various references) | |
Chinese | 谬 . (various references) | |
Czech | kachna (duck). (various references) | |
Dutch | canard (hoax). (various references) | |
Farsi | خبردروغ , شایعات (Murmur). (various references) | |
Finnish | ankka (drake, duck, false report, hoax). (various references) | |
French | canard. (various references) | |
German | ente (bed urinal, duck, false report, hoax), zeitungsente (newspaper hoax). (various references) | |
Greek | πλαστή διάδοση, φενάκη (peruke). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ברוז עתו אי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hírlapi kacsa (mare's nest). (various references) | |
Indonesian | desas-desus (rumor, rumour). (various references) | |
Italian | canard (hoax). (various references) | |
Manx | fou breaghagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anardcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | notícia exagerada, mentira (bung, caulker, corker, crack, cracker, cram, crammer, do, fable, fairytale, falsehood, have-on, humbug, invention, leasing, lie, lying, mendacity, phoney, phony, tall tale, taradiddle, untruth), boato falso. (various references) | |
Romanian | ştire falsã (grape vine). (various references) | |
Russian | ложный слух. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | novinarska patka, lažna vest. (various references) | |
Spanish | noticia falsa, filfa (hoax), bulo. (various references) | |
Swedish | tidningsanka. (various references) | |
Turkish | uydurma haber, oyun (act, acting, dance, device, frolic, game, hoax, performance, play, presentment, representation, spectacle, sport, stage play, trick, wheeze), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), asılsız haber (mare's nest). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сенсаційна вигадка, хибна чутка, газетна плітка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tin vịt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "canard": canards. (additional references) | |
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"Canard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acard, Anaud, cafard, cainar, Camarda, Canair, canar, canari, cannard, canodr, canrd, cantando, carnard, Carnwarth, cen-ars, Cenwald, cinard, Cindra, Civardi, conard, Connard, Cunarder, Cunwald, cynar, Cynnar, Fajardo, Karnad, Kasarda, manard, Shanard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "canard" (pronounced kunÄ"rd) |
| 4 | -n Ä" r d | nard. |
| 3 | -Ä" r d | bard, barred, bombard, card, Chard, charred, disbarred, discard, jarred, lard, disregard, Gabbard, guard, hard, marred, regard, retard, scarred, shard, sparred, starred, sward, tarred, yard. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-n-r" | |
-2 letters: card, carn, darn, nada, narc, nard, rand. | |
-3 letters: ana, and, arc, cad, can, car, rad, ran. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, an, ar, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-n-r" | |
+1 letter: canards, handcar. | |
+2 letters: acaridan, advancer, arachnid, arcadian, arcading, bankcard, calendar, carangid, cardamon, cardigan, cardinal, dracaena, flancard, handcars, handcart, radiance, radiancy, radicand, sandarac. | |
+3 letters: acaridans, accordant, advancers, androecia, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, bankcards, barnacled, calendars, candygram, carangids, caravaned, carbonade, carbonado, cardamons, cardigans, cardinals, carinated, carronade, circadian, cnidarian, declarant, dracaenas, draconian, flancards, handcarts, handcraft, jacaranda, radiances, radicands, ransacked, sandaracs. | |
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