Canard is French for
duck
Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and geese, which are members of the same family. Divided among several subfamilies, they are a fo ...
, a type of aquatic bird.
Canard may also refer to:
Aviation
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Canard (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, a canard is a wing configuration in which a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or a weapon. The term "canard" may be used to describe the aircraft itself, the wing configuration ...
, a small wing in front of an aircraft's main wing
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The Aviafiber Canard 2FL was a one-person recreational aircraft of highly unusual design, designed and built in Switzerland during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Design and development
Variously described as a rigid-wing hang-glider or ...
, a single seat recreational aircraft of canard design
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Blériot V canard Blériot may refer to:
* Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot ( , also , ; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable busin ...
, an early French aircraft built by Louis Blériot in 1907, and one of the first monoplanes
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Voisin Canard
The Voisin Canard was an aircraft developed by Voisin brothers during 1910 and first flown early in 1911. It was named the ''Canard'' because of the resemblance of its forward fuselage to that of a duck's long neck while in flight. It was origin ...
, aircraft developed by the Voisin brothers
Persons
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Marius Canard
Marius Canard FBA (Dracy-Saint-Loup, 26 December 1888 – Duingt, Haute-Savoie, 13 September 1982) was a French Orientalist and historian.
Biography
He was born in a small village in the region of Morvan, where his father was a school teache ...
(1888–1982), French Orientalist and historian
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Nicolas-François Canard
Nicolas-François Canard (; c. 1750 – 1833) was a French mathematician, philosopher and economist. He was one of the pioneers of applying mathematics to economic problems, forestalling the works of Antoine Augustin Cournot, William Stanley Jevo ...
(c. 1750 – 1833), French mathematician and economist
Places
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Canard, Nova Scotia
Canard is a rural community occupying a ridge to the north of the Canard River between the Canard and Habitant Rivers in Kings County in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The name comes from the French word for duck which was in turn d ...
, Canada, a group of hamlets and villages
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Canard River
The Canard River is a river in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada which drains into the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy between the communities of Canard and Starr's Point. It is known for its fertile river banks and extensive dyke land agricultur ...
, a river in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Rivière-aux-Canards
Rivière-aux-Canards was an Acadian community located at the west side of the Minas Basin from 1670 until 1755. The community occupied the present-day site of Canard, Port Williams and Starr's Point, Nova Scotia. The village was established in ...
(River of the ducks), a village in New France (now Canada) from 1670 until 1755
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Rivière aux Canards (Anticosti Island)
The rivière aux Canards (''English: Ducks River'') is a tributary of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, flowing in the municipality of L'Île-d'Anticosti, in the Minganie Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Côte-Nord, in prov ...
, a tributary of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in L'Île-d'Anticosti, Quebec, Canada
Dishonesty
*"Canard" is a dated term for a false, defamatory story
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Antisemitic canard
Antisemitic tropes, canards, or myths are "Sensationalism, sensational reports, misrepresentations, or Fabrication (lie), fabrications" that are Defamation, defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an Ethnic group, ...
, a false allegation defaming Jews or Judaism
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Lie
A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deception, deceiving or Deception, misleading someone. The practice of communicating lies is called lying. A person who communicates a lie may be termed a l ...
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Defamation
Defamation is the act of communicating to a third party false statements about a person, place or thing that results in damage to its reputation. It can be spoken (slander) or written (libel). It constitutes a tort or a crime. The legal defi ...
Other
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Canard Pars, fictional character from the Japanese science fiction manga series ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray''
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Canard PC
''Canard PC'' is an independent magazine founded in France in 2003 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly.
The title ''Canard PC'' is a paronym, derived from ''Canard WC'', which is the French name for Toilet Duck.
''Canard PC''s independ ...
'', a French magazine devoted to computer gaming
* Canard, an alternative name of a
diving plane, small wings attached to the front of a submarine or an automobile
See also
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Canardo (disambiguation) Canardo may refer to:
* Canardo (rapper), French rapper of Moroccan origin
*Mariano Cañardo
Mariano Cañardo Lacasta (5 February 1906 in Olite – 21 June 1987 in Barcelona) was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won a record seven ...
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Kenard, a character in the television series ''The Wire''
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Canary (disambiguation)
Canary originally referred to the island of Gran Canaria on the west coast of Africa, and the group of surrounding islands (the Canary Islands). It may also refer to:
Animals Birds
* Canaries, birds in the genera ''Serinus'' and ''Crithagra'' in ...
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