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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mockingbird \mockingbird\, mocking bird \mocking bird\n. (Zo["o]l.), A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America ( Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. Originally its range was confined mostly to the southern states, but by late 19th century it had migrated as far north as New York. The name is also applied to other members of thee same and related genera, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, such as the blue mockingbird of Mexico, Melanotis caerulescens.
Syn: mocker, Mimus polyglottos .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.
WordNet
n. long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: mocker, Mimus polyglotktos]
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Mockingbird Station is a DART Light Rail station located in north Dallas, Texas ( USA) at Mockingbird Lane and North Central Expressway ( US 75). It opened in January 1997 and is a station on the , and Lines, serving the Mockingbird Station residential and retail development and nearby Southern Methodist University.
Mockingbird Lane has the highest density population within three miles of any mass transit station in Texas. It is also the northernmost DART station serving both the Red and Blue lines; from this point the lines diverge with the Red line heading north and the Blue line heading northeast.
"Mockingbird" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his fifth studio album Encore (2004). It was released as the fifth single from the album in April 2005. It peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100, and number four in the United Kingdom. It received a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. "Mockingbird" was later included on Eminem's greatest hits compilation album Curtain Call: The Hits (2005).
The song is another that addresses Eminem's relationship with his daughter Hailie Jade, his adopted daughter Alaina and his relationship with his wife Kim. The single cover features a still from the video with Eminem sitting on the couch. This song was also featured on the 2005 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music 19 (U.S. series).
A mockingbird is a bird known for its mimicking habits.
Mockingbird may also refer to:
Mockingbird (Barbara "Bobbi" Morse) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Mockingbird first appeared in Astonishing Tales #6 in 1971 as a supporting character and eventual love interest of Ka-Zar. She is soon revealed to be a highly trained agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as a Ph.D in biology. She first uses the moniker "Mockingbird" in Marvel Team-Up #95 (July 1980), and goes on to be a member of several Avengers teams.
In 2012, Mockingbird was listed as #48 on IGN's "Top 50 Avengers". She is portrayed by Adrianne Palicki in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Mockingbird is a science fiction novel by Walter Tevis, first published in 1980. It was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel.
"Mockingbird" is a 1963 song written and recorded by Inez and Charlie Foxx, based on the lullaby " Hush Little Baby".
Mockingbird is a young adult novel by American author Kathryn Erskine about a girl with Asperger syndrome coping with the loss of her brother. It won the 2010 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Mockingbird is an album of covers by Allison Moorer released in 2008. Moorer covers songs by Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Cat Power, June Carter Cash, Joni Mitchell, as well as her sister Shelby Lynne.
"Mockingbird" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 37th overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Alik Sakharov. It aired on May 18, 2014.
Mockingbird is a 2014 American found footage horror film that was written and directed by Bryan Bertino. The film was released to video on demand on October 7, 2014 and was given a DVD and Blu-ray release on October 21 of the same year. It stars Todd Stashwick, Alexandra Lydon, and Barak Hardley as three people that have been given video cameras with the instructions to film their daily activities for a strange contest.
Mockingbird is the code name of several characters in the DC Comics, denoting whoever is in charge of the Secret Six.
The original Mockingbird's identity was unrevealed in the original series, but later identified as August Durant. After the death of almost the entire original Secret Six team (including Durant) his teammate Carlo DiRienzi succeeded him in the role, to lead a new team. Upon DiRienzi's death, his son Rafael DiRienzi, thought to be his successor in the role, disappeared amid belief he would succeed his father, and has was never seen again.
The first Mockingbird of the villainous Secret Six was revealed to be Lex Luthor. After he gave up on the team, they worked independently until a new Mockingbird appeared giving them missions. This Mockingbird was revealed to be Amanda Waller. In the New 52, the Mockingbird was revealed to be the Riddler.
Mockingbird (2005) is the third solo studio album from singer-songwriter Derek Webb.
Produced by Cason Cooley, the album touches on subjects such as politics, social justice, and war. Webb has stated that he tackled these subjects to stimulate discussion and engage people to bring about changes in what he sees as some of the greatest problems the world is facing today. The Work of the People (a community of artists, storytellers, filmmakers, poets and theologians) created a music video for Webb's song A New Law which is available for viewing on their website.
In order to broaden this discussion to people less inclined to purchase his album, beginning September 1, 2006, Webb offered Mockingbird for free on the website www.freederekwebb.com, where it was available for download until December 8, 2006. Over 80,000 free copies of the album were downloaded during this time.
Mockingbird is a song by American recording artist Rob Thomas. It is the fourth single from the album Cradlesong, released on April 20, 2010. The song debuted at #50 on the ARIA Charts and, in the US, debuted at 29 on the Adult Pop Songs chart and at 100 on the Billboard Hot 100, making his third song of Cradlesong to reach the Hot 100. For the chart week ending August 28, 2010, the song reached #95 on the Hot 100.
"Mockingbird" marks Thomas's ninth solo top 10 and eighth consecutive top 5 hit on the Adult Pop Songs chart, peaking at number four. Thomas's combined 21 trips to the chart's top 10 (counting the singles as lead singer of Matchbox Twenty) gives him the second best top 10 sum in the chart's history after only Goo Goo Dolls' 13.
Usage examples of "mockingbird".
Entering by canoe at Shark River, you would be among woodpeckers and mockingbirds, alligators and bullfrogs, garfish and bass, white-tailed deer and possibly otters.
Smiling, laughing, he ran across the field where the peach trees grew and the mockingbirds sang.
CHAPTER 17 The mockingbird perched on the dogwood continued its series of liquid calls even when Sharina rattled the clackers only ten feet away.
One day when I took him into the exhibit area he went directly to a bed pillow stuffed with chicken feathers before World War I, and a few minutes ago he knocked two books off the shelf: To Kill a Mockingbird and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
I do not want to leave the world of mockingbirds, boats, beaches, ladies, love, and peanut butter from Deaf Smith County.
Rick had named it the Mockingbird, a fittingly arrogant name for the undisputed star of the last of the flying circuses.
They lived out in Indian Hills or on Mockingbird Valley Road near the Louisville Country Club, and they owned every bank in the city -- along with both newspapers, all the radio stations that white folks took seriously, and at least half the major distilleries and tobacco companies that funded the municipal tax base.
In the pear tree the mockingbirds idiot reiteration pulsed and purled.
An inventive mockingbird swayed in the top of a punk tree, working some cardinal song into his repertoire.
But all she heard were the familiar scuttlings of squir rels on the roof and a mockingbird singing from the chimney.
Today mockingbirds live in many northern states, but only a few decades ago mockingbirds lived principally in the southeastern United States.
AFTER a while the whippoorwills stopped and I heard the first day bird, a mockingbird.
There was still a good deal of light in the pasture, though the whippoorwills had begun, and when we reached the house there was a mockingbird singing hi the magnolia, the night song now, the drowsy moony one, and again the moon like the rim print of a heel in wet sand.
I compared her shy beauty to the flower of the purple wood sorrel and her pure voice to the song of the mockingbird.