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volatile — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bird noun A warm-blooded egg-laying animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
  • fowl noun A bird, especially one raised or hunted for food, such as chickens, ducks, or geese.
  • volatile adjective Likely to change suddenly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.

Senses

volatile is used for these senses in English:

  • bird (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
  • fowl A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

bird — full definition

  1. noun A warm-blooded egg-laying animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
  2. noun (informal) An aircraft.
  3. noun (slang, British, dated/informal) A woman, especially a young one.
  4. noun (slang) The rude gesture made by extending the middle finger.

fowl — full definition

  1. noun A bird, especially one raised or hunted for food, such as chickens, ducks, or geese.
  2. verb To hunt birds.

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