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perch | American Dictionary

perch
verb[ I/T ]
us/pɜrtʃ/
(of a bird) to rest on a branch or other object, or of a person or thing to sit or be on the edge or top of something:
[ T ]A baseball cap, turned backwards, was perched on his head.

perch

noun[ C ]us/pɜrtʃ/
From their perches in the towers, the prison guards could see the entire prison yard.

Examples of perch

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I see myself perched on her pink bedspread, earnestly listening to a story about two birds.
After each bout they perched on a branch and remained silent, vocalizing, or chasing intruders.
Now the man is perched precariously on the top of his chimney - the only bit of his house above the raging torrent.
With all the birds on the floor area or in perches, controlling the faeces is extremely hard and can lead to the spread of diseases.
A clay tree with seven clay birds perching on it is clearly a ritual presentation of the idea.
The embryo develops as a disc of cells perched on top of a yolk mass, the blastodisc.
In the underlying tension between religion and science, philosophy was perched ambiguously on both sides of the divide.
The bay was essentially open water, save for several grounded icebergs (where birds were often perched).
Do perching structures elevate seed rain and seedling establishment in abandoned tropical pasture?
At the far end, where the windows must have been, there were bass enclosures like fortresses on which midranges, trebles and supertrebles perched like turrets.
There also needs to be 15cm perching space per bird.
Do perching structures elevate seed rain and seedling establishment in abandoned tropical pastures?
Accelerating forest succession in a fragmented landscape: the role of birds and perches.
The estimated proportion of time spent foraging, perching, calling and chasing was 31.7%, 51.7%, 14.2% and 2.5% respectively.
The remaining 686 faecal samples were collected from under temporary feeding perches or feeding trees along trails and access roads.
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