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Definition of 'beak'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) beak
the bill of a bird.

2.  beak
any horny or stiff projecting mouthpart of an animal, fish, or insect.

3.  beak
anything beaklike or ending in a point, as the spout of a pitcher.

4.  beak
Slang. a person's nose.

5.  beak
a projection from the bow of an ancient warship, used to ram enemy vessels.

6.  beak
a narrow projecting molding resembling a bird's beak, forming a drip for shedding rainwater, as on a cornice.

Etymology: (1175–1225; ME bec < OF < L beccus < Gaulish)

Definition of 'beak'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) beak
beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)

2. (noun) beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker
horny projecting mouth of a bird

3. (noun) beak
a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures

4. (verb) beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz
informal terms for the nose

5. (verb) peck, pick, beak
hit lightly with a picking motion

Definition of 'beak'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) beak
the pointed mouth of a bird
a worm in its beak

Definition of 'beak'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) beak
the bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds

2. (noun) beak
a similar bill in other animals, as the turtles

3. (noun) beak
the long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera

4. (noun) beak
the upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve

5. (noun) beak
the prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal

6. (noun) beak
anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land

7. (noun) beak
a beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead

8. (noun) beak
that part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee

9. (noun) beak
a continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off

10. (noun) beak
any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant

11. (noun) beak
a toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.)

12. (noun) beak
a magistrate or policeman

Definition of 'beak'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. beak
In some animals, the jaws together with their horny covering. The beak usually refers to the bill of birds in which the whole varies greatly in form according of the food and habits of the bird. While the beak refers most commonly to birds, the anatomical counterpart is found also in the turtle, squid, and octopus. (From Webster, 3d ed & Storer, et al., General Zoology, 6th ed, p491, 755)

Translation of 'beak'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the hard, horny (usually pointed) part of a bird's mouth The bird had a worm in its beak.
Afrikaans: bek, snawel	Arabic: مِنْقار	Bulgarian: клюн
Brazilian: bico	Czech: zobák	German: der Schnabel
Danish: næb	Greek: ράμφος	Spanish: pico
Estonian: nokk	Farsi: منقار؛ نوک	Finnish: nokka
French: bec	Hebrew: מָקוֹר	Hindi: चोंच, चंचु
Croatian: kljun	Hungarian: csőr	Indonesian: paruh
Icelandic: goggur	Italian: becco	Japanese: くちばし
Korean: (새의) 부리	Lithuanian: snapas	Latvian: knābis
Malay: paruh	Dutch: snavel	Norwegian: nebb
Polish: dziób	Persian: منقار؛ نوک	Pashto: مښوكه، مشوكه
Portuguese: bico	Romanian: cioc	Russian: клюв
Slovak: zobák	Slovenian: kljun	Serbian: kljun
Swedish: näbb	Thai: จะงอยปากนก	Turkish: gaga
Taiwanese: 鳥喙	Ukrainian: дзьоб	Urdu: چونچ ، منقار
Vietnamese: mỏ (chim)	Chinese: 鸟嘴
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