English Dictionary

beak

/biːk/

noun

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 an octopus, turtle, etc.

The bird's beak was long and sharp.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.

意味（3）

The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.

意味（4）

The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

意味（5）

The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

意味（6）

(botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

意味（7）

Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.

At the townes end, Cuddenbeak, an ancient house of the Bishops, from a well aduanced Promontory, which intituled it Beak

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(farriery) A toe clip.

意味（10）

(nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

意味（11）

(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.

意味（12）

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.

意味（13）

(slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.

I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs.

意味（14）

(slang, Southern England) cocaine.