Beak

Quick meaning: Beak is a noun meaning A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.

Meaning

A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.

More Meanings

1. A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
2. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
3. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
4. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
5. Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
6. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
7. A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

Example Sentences

Shut your beak!

Typical Yankee detractor, nize your beak.

Holonyms: bow, stem, forestem, prow, prore < ship < vessel

Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment.

Word Forms

• beaks
• beaking
• beaked

Synonyms for beak

Depending on context, synonyms include bill, neb, nib, pecker, beakhead, schnozzle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neb, peck, snout, schnozzle, pick, hooter.

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