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canard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fable, fabrication, fiction |
Examples of canard
canard
Most aircraft have tailplanes, but some have instead a canard wing at the front.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In dishes from fois gras to confit, the canard is Bordeaux's most beloved bird.
From the post-gazette.com
Many canard aircraft designs incorporate twin tails on the tips of the main wing.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses.
From the time.com
Power repeated a canard that has been pushed by numerous conspiracy theorists.
From the time.com
By the way, please don't repeat the canard that breastfeeding means no nights out.
From the guardian.co.uk
Then there is the canard that a woman's menstrual cycle inhibits peak performance.
From the time.com
First off, this canard about treating Genesis as a science textbook really must go.
From the scienceblogs.com
In him you are meant to see your own lovable lug, but the conceit is a total canard.
From the nytimes.com
- A deliberately misleading fabrication
- In aeronautics, canard (French for duck) is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the forward surface is smaller than the rearward, the former being known as the "canard", while the latter is the main wing. ...
- A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so; A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing; Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization
- (Canards) elevator-like control surfaces ahead of the main wings
- An airplane designed to have its normal horizontal tail surface on the front rather than the rear of its fuselage.
- A tail configuration (two small horizontal surfaces on either side of the aircraft) mounted toward the front of the aircraft, rather than at the rear.
- A small wing, usually mounted between the sponsons.
- Smaller horizontal surface forward of mainplane.
- A forward rather than rearward elevator.
