Definition of stork in English:

stork

noun stɔːkstɔrk

1A very tall long-legged wading bird with a long heavy bill and typically with white and black plumage.
Family Ciconiidae: several genera and species, in particular the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), with black wing tips and a reddish bill and legs, often nesting on tall buildings in Europe
Example sentencesExamples
- Although storks are wading birds, they usually nest in trees.
- During their visit to the park, the children were amazed at the size of the storks and Sarus Cranes.
- In the next decade, Igor would find a hundred black stork nests and observe as many as 24 breeding pairs a year - more than the number of black storks in all of France.
- Today, Igor still traipses through swamps - with me in tow - searching for black storks in the reserve, where we both volunteer part-time.
- Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
- It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
- Today, thanks to the efforts of white stork enthusiasts throughout the bird's European range, the white stork populations are stabilizing and in some areas even recovering.
- Jacanas, plover and a variety of storks foraged amongst the tall reeds at the river's edge.
- The bird life is exquisite, and we saw saddle-billed storks, black vultures, ground hornbills and a number of eagles, among others.
- The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found.
- These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests.
- Extremely cautious birds, black storks only nest in old forests far from humans.
- Hunan is home to a variety of rare animals such as the South China tiger, the white stork and the sheldrake, which are protected in the national reserve areas.
- Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter.
- They are generally considered among the raptors, yet DNA studies show New World vultures to be ancestrally more closely related to storks.
- The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle, of which only 130 pairs remain worldwide, are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands.
- Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood.
- Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
- Roughly 10 per cent of the country's rare black storks will be made homeless.
- The European white stork has a red bill and legs and is regarded as a good omen.
1. 1.1 The white stork as the supposed bringer of newborn babies.
  Example sentencesExamples
  You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls.
  Children throughout Europe and America are taught that the stork delivers newborns to their mothers and according to some traditions the stork can cause a woman to become pregnant merely by looking at her.
  I wondered if the stork had dropped the baby off at the wrong house.
  There is a reason for these statistics and it's not that the stork is going mad and dropping babies off in the wrong places, it is that teenagers are having unprotected sex.
  That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes.
  It is such as they, in most cases, who still believe the story of the stork which brings babies because of the consequences of a kiss.
  A little girl, about the age of Peter, is going on about how a stork brought her mommy's baby.
  While he never delivered a baby, as storks supposedly do, he was just as dependable, never missing a game in 15 seasons.
  The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson.
  Shannon's mommy told her that babies are delivered by the stork and don't you try and tell her any different.
  As in the west the stork is associated with bringing babies.
  This is akin to teaching that babies come from storks.
  It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies.
  The stork has paid a visit to Crossard and delivered a baby boy to Kieran and Eileen.
  Congratulations to Michael & Mary, who had a visit from the stork during the week with the arrival of their new baby son Declan.

Origin

Old English storc, of Germanic origin; probably related to stark (because of its rigid stance).

naked from Old English:
The Old English word naked comes from the same ultimate root as nude (Late Middle English), Latin nudus. The sense of ‘blatant, clear, unashamed’, as in naked ambition, dates from the 13th century. The naked truth, meaning ‘the plain truth, without concealment or embellishment’, dates back to the 14th century. It may originally have developed as a translation of the Latin phrase nudaque veritas in the Odes of the Roman writer Horace, or have come from fables personifying Truth as a naked woman, in contrast to Falsehood, who is elaborately dressed. Stark naked is an alteration of start naked, which probably meant ‘naked even to the tail’, as a start was an animal's tail—as in the red-rumped bird the redstart (late 16th century). First recorded as early as 1530, stark naked developed into starkers in the 1920s. The change was made the easier because stark, which had meant ‘hard, stiff’ in Old English had come to mean ‘absolutely, utterly’ in late Middle English, as in stark staring mad. Words related to stark include the starch (Old English) used for stiffening clothes and probably the stork (Old English) from the bird's stiff posture.

Rhymes

auk, baulk, Bork, caulk (US calk), chalk, cork, Dundalk, Falk, fork, gawk, hawk, Hawke, nork, orc, outwalk, pork, squawk, stalk, talk, torc, torque, walk, york

Definition of stork in US English:

stork

nounstɔrkstôrk

1A tall long-legged wading bird with a long heavy bill and typically with white and black plumage.
Family Ciconiidae: several genera and species, in particular the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), with black wing tips and a reddish bill and legs, often nesting on tall buildings in Europe
Example sentencesExamples
- They are generally considered among the raptors, yet DNA studies show New World vultures to be ancestrally more closely related to storks.
- Roughly 10 per cent of the country's rare black storks will be made homeless.
- Today, Igor still traipses through swamps - with me in tow - searching for black storks in the reserve, where we both volunteer part-time.
- The bird life is exquisite, and we saw saddle-billed storks, black vultures, ground hornbills and a number of eagles, among others.
- Hunan is home to a variety of rare animals such as the South China tiger, the white stork and the sheldrake, which are protected in the national reserve areas.
- Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
- In the next decade, Igor would find a hundred black stork nests and observe as many as 24 breeding pairs a year - more than the number of black storks in all of France.
- Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood.
- Extremely cautious birds, black storks only nest in old forests far from humans.
- The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found.
- The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle, of which only 130 pairs remain worldwide, are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands.
- Jacanas, plover and a variety of storks foraged amongst the tall reeds at the river's edge.
- Today, thanks to the efforts of white stork enthusiasts throughout the bird's European range, the white stork populations are stabilizing and in some areas even recovering.
- These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests.
- The European white stork has a red bill and legs and is regarded as a good omen.
- During their visit to the park, the children were amazed at the size of the storks and Sarus Cranes.
- It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
- Although storks are wading birds, they usually nest in trees.
- Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on.
- Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter.
1. 1.1 The white stork as the pretended bringer of babies.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson.
  There is a reason for these statistics and it's not that the stork is going mad and dropping babies off in the wrong places, it is that teenagers are having unprotected sex.
  I wondered if the stork had dropped the baby off at the wrong house.
  This is akin to teaching that babies come from storks.
  The stork has paid a visit to Crossard and delivered a baby boy to Kieran and Eileen.
  Congratulations to Michael & Mary, who had a visit from the stork during the week with the arrival of their new baby son Declan.
  A little girl, about the age of Peter, is going on about how a stork brought her mommy's baby.
  As in the west the stork is associated with bringing babies.
  While he never delivered a baby, as storks supposedly do, he was just as dependable, never missing a game in 15 seasons.
  It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies.
  Shannon's mommy told her that babies are delivered by the stork and don't you try and tell her any different.
  It is such as they, in most cases, who still believe the story of the stork which brings babies because of the consequences of a kiss.
  Children throughout Europe and America are taught that the stork delivers newborns to their mothers and according to some traditions the stork can cause a woman to become pregnant merely by looking at her.
  You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls.
  That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes.

Origin

Old English storc, of Germanic origin; probably related to stark (because of its rigid stance).

单词	stork
释义	Definition of stork in English: stork noun stɔːkstɔrk 1A very tall long-legged wading bird with a long heavy bill and typically with white and black plumage. Family Ciconiidae: several genera and species, in particular the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), with black wing tips and a reddish bill and legs, often nesting on tall buildings in Europe Example sentencesExamples Although storks are wading birds, they usually nest in trees. During their visit to the park, the children were amazed at the size of the storks and Sarus Cranes. In the next decade, Igor would find a hundred black stork nests and observe as many as 24 breeding pairs a year - more than the number of black storks in all of France. Today, Igor still traipses through swamps - with me in tow - searching for black storks in the reserve, where we both volunteer part-time. Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years. It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds. Today, thanks to the efforts of white stork enthusiasts throughout the bird's European range, the white stork populations are stabilizing and in some areas even recovering. Jacanas, plover and a variety of storks foraged amongst the tall reeds at the river's edge. The bird life is exquisite, and we saw saddle-billed storks, black vultures, ground hornbills and a number of eagles, among others. The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found. These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests. Extremely cautious birds, black storks only nest in old forests far from humans. Hunan is home to a variety of rare animals such as the South China tiger, the white stork and the sheldrake, which are protected in the national reserve areas. Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter. They are generally considered among the raptors, yet DNA studies show New World vultures to be ancestrally more closely related to storks. The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle, of which only 130 pairs remain worldwide, are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands. Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood. Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on. Roughly 10 per cent of the country's rare black storks will be made homeless. The European white stork has a red bill and legs and is regarded as a good omen. 1.1 The white stork as the supposed bringer of newborn babies. Example sentencesExamples You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls. Children throughout Europe and America are taught that the stork delivers newborns to their mothers and according to some traditions the stork can cause a woman to become pregnant merely by looking at her. I wondered if the stork had dropped the baby off at the wrong house. There is a reason for these statistics and it's not that the stork is going mad and dropping babies off in the wrong places, it is that teenagers are having unprotected sex. That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes. It is such as they, in most cases, who still believe the story of the stork which brings babies because of the consequences of a kiss. A little girl, about the age of Peter, is going on about how a stork brought her mommy's baby. While he never delivered a baby, as storks supposedly do, he was just as dependable, never missing a game in 15 seasons. The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson. Shannon's mommy told her that babies are delivered by the stork and don't you try and tell her any different. As in the west the stork is associated with bringing babies. This is akin to teaching that babies come from storks. It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies. The stork has paid a visit to Crossard and delivered a baby boy to Kieran and Eileen. Congratulations to Michael & Mary, who had a visit from the stork during the week with the arrival of their new baby son Declan. Origin Old English storc, of Germanic origin; probably related to stark (because of its rigid stance). naked from Old English: The Old English word naked comes from the same ultimate root as nude (Late Middle English), Latin nudus. The sense of ‘blatant, clear, unashamed’, as in naked ambition, dates from the 13th century. The naked truth, meaning ‘the plain truth, without concealment or embellishment’, dates back to the 14th century. It may originally have developed as a translation of the Latin phrase nudaque veritas in the Odes of the Roman writer Horace, or have come from fables personifying Truth as a naked woman, in contrast to Falsehood, who is elaborately dressed. Stark naked is an alteration of start naked, which probably meant ‘naked even to the tail’, as a start was an animal's tail—as in the red-rumped bird the redstart (late 16th century). First recorded as early as 1530, stark naked developed into starkers in the 1920s. The change was made the easier because stark, which had meant ‘hard, stiff’ in Old English had come to mean ‘absolutely, utterly’ in late Middle English, as in stark staring mad. Words related to stark include the starch (Old English) used for stiffening clothes and probably the stork (Old English) from the bird's stiff posture. Rhymes auk, baulk, Bork, caulk (US calk), chalk, cork, Dundalk, Falk, fork, gawk, hawk, Hawke, nork, orc, outwalk, pork, squawk, stalk, talk, torc, torque, walk, york Definition of stork in US English: stork nounstɔrkstôrk 1A tall long-legged wading bird with a long heavy bill and typically with white and black plumage. Family Ciconiidae: several genera and species, in particular the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), with black wing tips and a reddish bill and legs, often nesting on tall buildings in Europe Example sentencesExamples They are generally considered among the raptors, yet DNA studies show New World vultures to be ancestrally more closely related to storks. Roughly 10 per cent of the country's rare black storks will be made homeless. Today, Igor still traipses through swamps - with me in tow - searching for black storks in the reserve, where we both volunteer part-time. The bird life is exquisite, and we saw saddle-billed storks, black vultures, ground hornbills and a number of eagles, among others. Hunan is home to a variety of rare animals such as the South China tiger, the white stork and the sheldrake, which are protected in the national reserve areas. Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years. In the next decade, Igor would find a hundred black stork nests and observe as many as 24 breeding pairs a year - more than the number of black storks in all of France. Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood. Extremely cautious birds, black storks only nest in old forests far from humans. The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found. The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle, of which only 130 pairs remain worldwide, are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands. Jacanas, plover and a variety of storks foraged amongst the tall reeds at the river's edge. Today, thanks to the efforts of white stork enthusiasts throughout the bird's European range, the white stork populations are stabilizing and in some areas even recovering. These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests. The European white stork has a red bill and legs and is regarded as a good omen. During their visit to the park, the children were amazed at the size of the storks and Sarus Cranes. It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds. Although storks are wading birds, they usually nest in trees. Other migratory birds observed in the shallow waters were bar headed geese, open bill storks, northern pintails, gadwalls, curlews, black tailed godwits, spoonbills, green shanks, red shanks and so on. Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter. 1.1 The white stork as the pretended bringer of babies. Example sentencesExamples The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson. There is a reason for these statistics and it's not that the stork is going mad and dropping babies off in the wrong places, it is that teenagers are having unprotected sex. I wondered if the stork had dropped the baby off at the wrong house. This is akin to teaching that babies come from storks. The stork has paid a visit to Crossard and delivered a baby boy to Kieran and Eileen. Congratulations to Michael & Mary, who had a visit from the stork during the week with the arrival of their new baby son Declan. A little girl, about the age of Peter, is going on about how a stork brought her mommy's baby. As in the west the stork is associated with bringing babies. While he never delivered a baby, as storks supposedly do, he was just as dependable, never missing a game in 15 seasons. It assumes we haven't evolved from those kindergarten days when we believed in the tooth fairy and in the stork as the source of babies. Shannon's mommy told her that babies are delivered by the stork and don't you try and tell her any different. It is such as they, in most cases, who still believe the story of the stork which brings babies because of the consequences of a kiss. Children throughout Europe and America are taught that the stork delivers newborns to their mothers and according to some traditions the stork can cause a woman to become pregnant merely by looking at her. You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls. That's the Chinese equivalent of the old American tale that babies are dropped off by a stork at expectant parents' homes. Origin Old English storc, of Germanic origin; probably related to stark (because of its rigid stance).
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