Canard is a
FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
word for a
duckDuck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks...
, and is often used in English to refer to a
deliberately false storyA hoax is a deliberate attempt to deceive or trick an audience into believing, or accepting, that something is real, when the hoaxer knows it is not; or that something is true, when it is false...
, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French
idiomAn idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has figurative meaning — its implication comprehended only through common use; whereas the literal definition of the idiom, itself, does not communicate its meaning as a figurative usage.In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of...
, "
vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck." It may refer to:
- Canard (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, canard is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the horizontal stabilizer is ahead of the main wing, rather than behind them as in conventional aircraft empennage....
, flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces
- Le Canard enchaîné
Le Canard enchaîné is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France. Founded in 1915, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as a large number of jokes and humorous cartoons. It...
, a satirical French newspaper, based on the French usage of canard to mean a newspaper.
- Canard (dynamical systems) is a phenomenon in some slow-fast dynamical systems referring to high sensitivity of a periodic orbit to a parameter http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Canards.
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Canard is a
FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
word for a
duckDuck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks...
, and is often used in English to refer to a
deliberately false storyA hoax is a deliberate attempt to deceive or trick an audience into believing, or accepting, that something is real, when the hoaxer knows it is not; or that something is true, when it is false...
, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French
idiomAn idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has figurative meaning — its implication comprehended only through common use; whereas the literal definition of the idiom, itself, does not communicate its meaning as a figurative usage.In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of...
, "
vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck." It may refer to:
- Canard (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, canard is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the horizontal stabilizer is ahead of the main wing, rather than behind them as in conventional aircraft empennage....
, flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces
- Le Canard enchaîné
Le Canard enchaîné is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France. Founded in 1915, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as a large number of jokes and humorous cartoons. It...
, a satirical French newspaper, based on the French usage of canard to mean a newspaper.
- Canard (dynamical systems) is a phenomenon in some slow-fast dynamical systems referring to high sensitivity of a periodic orbit to a parameter http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Canards. Canards are used in some models of neuronal spiking.
- Canard, Nova Scotia
Canard is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County.-References:*...
a community in Kings County