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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bû(r)d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?d/, [b??]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [b??d]
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English brid, from Old English bird, brid, bridd (“young bird, chick”), of uncertain origin and relation. Gradually replaced fowl as the most common term starting in the 14th century.

The "booing/jeering" and "vulgar hand gesture" senses derived from the expression “to give the big bird”, as in “to hiss someone like a goose”, dated in the mid?18th Century.

Noun

bird (plural birds)

1. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
   • 2004, Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis, Seasons with Birds, page 50:

     The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends.

2. (slang) A man, fellow. [from the mid-19th c.]
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 24:

     The door opened and a tall hungry-looking bird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the desk.

   • 2006, Jeff Fields, Terry Kay, A cry of angels

     "Ah, he's a funny bird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.

3. (Britain, US, Australia, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
   • 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

     And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.

   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[2]

     The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.

   • 2017, David Weigel, The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, W. W. Norton & Company.

4. (Britain, Ireland, slang) Girlfriend. [from the early 20th c.]
5. (slang) An airplane.
6. (slang) A satellite.
   • 1988, Satellite communications. Jan-Oct. 1988

     Deployment of the fourth bird "should ensure that Inmarsat has sufficient capacity in orbit in the early 1990s, taking into account the possibility of launch failures and the age of some of the spacecraft in the Inmarsat first generation system

   • 1992, Cable Vision

     Will a government- backed APSTAR satellite knock out a planned AsiaSat II bird?

   • 2015, John Fuller, Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987, Springer ?ISBN, page 384

     In reality, the Air Force was never able to place a bird in orbit that quickly.

7. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
   • 1494–1536, William Tyndale, Bible, Matthew 8:20

     The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes.

8. (Britain, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
9. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

   Synonym: the finger

   • 2002, The Advocate, "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55.

     For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped the bird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.

   • 2003, James Patterson and Peter De Jonge, The Beach House, Warner Books, page 305,

     Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one.

10. A yardbird.

Synonyms

• (member of class Aves): fowl, avian
• (man): chap, bloke, guy
• (woman): broad, chick, dame, girl, lass
• See also Thesaurus:woman
• See also Thesaurus:girl

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:bird

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• birb
• burd
• chirp
• ornithic
• ornithology
• squawk
• tweet
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:Gestures/middle finger

Verb

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)

1. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
2. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     These day-owls. That are birding in men's purses

Etymology 2

Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".

Noun

bird (plural birds)

1. (slang, uncountable) A prison sentence.

Synonyms

• (prison sentence): porridge, stretch, time

Translations

Verb

bird (third-person singular simple present birds, present participle birding, simple past and past participle birded)

1. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bird”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• bird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aves on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Aves on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• bird at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• drib

For Wiktionary’s statistics, see Wiktionary:Statistics and Special:Statistics

English

Wikibooks

Alternative forms

• statisticks (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t?st?ks/

Etymology 1

From German Statistik, from New Latin statisticum (“of the state”) and Italian statista (“statesman, politician”). Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state.

Noun

statistics (uncountable)

1. A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
   • 1972, Leonard J. Savage, The Foundations of Statistics, Dover, page 1,

     As for statistics, the foundations include, on any interpretation of which I have ever heard, the foundations of probability, as controversial a subject as one could name. As in other sciences, controversies over the foundations of statistics reflect themselves to some extent in everyday practice, nut not nearly so catastrophically as one might imagine. […] It is hard to judge, however, to what extent the relative calm of modern statistics is due to its domination by a vigorous school relatively well agreed within itself about the foundations.

   • 2004, David C. LeBlanc, Statistics: Concepts and Applications for Science, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, page 61,

     The application of statistics in the process of science can be divided into three parts: (1) obtaining data (experiment and sampling design), (2) summarizing and describing data (exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics), and (3) using data from samples and experiments to make estimates and test competing hypotheses about the universe (inferential statistics).

Usage notes

• Within mathematics, the term statistics usually refers to mathematical statistics.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of probability and statistics

Etymology 2

Noun

statistics pl (plural only)

1. A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.
   • 1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, Springer, page 389,

     Sufficient statistics for a given estimation problem are a collection of statistics or, equivalently, a collection of functions of the random sample, that summarize or represent all of the information in a random sample that is useful for estimating any ${\displaystyle {\textbf {q}}(\!{\boldsymbol {\Theta }}\!)}$.

   Synonym: (informal) stats

Translations

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

statistics

1. plural of statistic