Beak vs Beck - What's the difference?
beak | beck |
Anatomical uses .
# A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food.
# A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
# The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
# The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
# The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
# (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
Figurative uses .
# Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
# (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
# (farriery) A toe clip.
# (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
# (nautical) A beam, shod or at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
Colloquial uses .
# (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
# (slang, British) A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority.
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(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
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A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
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, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
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, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
As a noun beak
is anatomical uses .As a verb beak
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Carew)
- He's up before the beak again tomorrow.
- I clapp'd my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free (I began to weep, and the judge set me free)
Synonyms
* (sense, rigid structure projecting from a bird's face) bill * (human nose) honker, schnozzleDerived terms
* beakish * wet one's beakAnagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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