beak
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++beak /biːk/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1. HBBthe hard pointed mouth of a bird 鸟嘴，喙 SYN bill →5 see picture at 见图 bird of prey2. HBHa large pointed nose – used humorously 鹰钩鼻〔幽默用法〕3. the beak British English old-fashioned informal a judge or a male teacher 法官；男教师
Examples from the Corpus
beak• Some were already asleep in the long grass, beaks tucked under wings.• A fine south doorway has some strange looking beak heads in the richly moulded arch.• The movement inside her filled her completely, an endless fluttering of wings, intense and urgent pecking of beaks.• A nestling's gape, or wide open beak, provides a stimulus to the parents to feed it.• The swallows came and went like carpenters, their beaks full of twigs.• Its surface is broken with coots, paddling away, dipping their beaks and twitching the water down their throats.• Cormorants can be pretty nasty with their beaks.• Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts, yellow beak in a grimace - take me with you?Origin beak (1200-1300) Old French bec, from Latin beccusbeak nounChinese
a bird pointed of the hard mouth Corpus
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beak
beak /biːk/
noun [countable]
SYN bill
2. a large pointed nose – used humorously
3. the beak British English old-fashioned informal a judge or a male teacher
beak /biːk/
noun [countable] Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: bec, from Latin beccus
1. the hard pointed mouth of a bird Language: Old French
Origin: bec, from Latin beccus
SYN bill
2. a large pointed nose – used humorously
3. the beak British English old-fashioned informal a judge or a male teacher
