beak
IPA: bˈik
noun
- (anatomy)
- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- A similar structure forming the jaws of a turtle, platypus, 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.
- (by extension)
- 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 armed 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.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
- (slang)
- A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
- (especially MTE) A person's mouth.
- (uncountable, Southern England) Cocaine.
- (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
- (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
verb
- (transitive) To strike with the beak.
- (transitive) To seize with the beak.
- (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
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Examples of "beak" in Sentences
- The beak is the mouth of birds.
- The eye is red and the beak is black.
- The eyes are black and the beak is red.
- The beak is black and the legs are grey.
- The beaks of the shell are often eroded.
- The beak is red and the irises are white.
- The beak is dark red, as are the short legs and webbed feet.
- The top of the head is olive green, and the beak is bright red.
- The tomium is the sharp cutting edge of the beak of a bird or turtle.
- The melon on the whale is rather low, and the beak is short and thick.
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