canard
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ca·nard
(kə-närd') 
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- An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
- A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.
- An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
[French, duck, canard, probably from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié, to sell half a duck, to swindle, from Old French quanart, duck, from caner, to cackle, of imitative origin.]
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Roget's Thesaurus:
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canard
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- An untrue declaration: cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth. Informal fish story, tall tale. Slang whopper. See true/false.
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A horizontal stabilizing and control surface or foreplane located forward of the wing. It can act as a trimmer or like a conventional tailplane. A canard may be fixed, movable, or have a variable geometry.
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categories related to 'canard'
- Airframe and Engines - canard: airframe with stabilizing and control surface ahead of main supporting surfaces and wings
- French - canard: insult or hoax
- Falsehood, Pretense, and Exaggeration - canard: false, fabricated, or exaggerated story or report
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Canard may refer to:
- Nicolas-François Canard (1750–1833), French mathematician and economist
- Canard (aeronautics), a small wing mounted on the front of some aircraft, which can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the design of the plane and its intended use
- Canard (dynamical systems), a phenomenon in some slow-fast dynamical systems referring to high sensitivity of a periodic orbit to a parameter, used in some models of neuronal spiking
- Canard, Nova Scotia, a group of hamlets and villages on the west coast of Nova Scotia in Kings County
- Duck, the common name for a number of aquatic species in the Anatidae family of birds, found in fresh and salt water, not a monophyletic group but a form taxon
- Hoax, an unfounded or false, deliberately misleading fabrication, a false report, also called a "canard"
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Canard
Dansk (Danish)
n. - avisand, skrøne, missiltype
Nederlands (Dutch)
(opzettelijke) onware roddel (m.n. media)
Deutsch (German)
n. - (ugs.) Ente
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (καθομ.) παραμύθι, ασύστατη φήμη
Português (Portuguese)
n. - rumor (m) falso, fofoca (f) jornalística
Русский (Russian)
газетная утка
Español (Spanish)
n. - noticia falsa, bulo, tipo de aeroplano
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tidningsanka
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
谣言, 误传
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 謠言, 誤傳
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) بط, اشاعه كاذة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - סיפור בדים, תוספת להגה הגובה במטוס
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