beck

Speech parts

1. beck - Noun

2. beck - Verb

3. Beck - Proper noun

Meaning

See Beak.

A small brook.

A vat. See Back.

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.

To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

creek brook motion stream attract burn gesture nod beckon river crick gill rundle bayou freemasonry
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Antonyms

rest ocean answer wait reply cease
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Hypernyms

motion gesture

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

becked Becking

Examples

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. Beck

During his February 8, 2006 show, Beck repeatedly referred to former U. S. President Jimmy Carter as "a waste of skin", adding that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was not a bigger waste of skin because "[a]t least evil is using that skin." Glenn Beck

All things are but masks at God's beck and call, They are symbols that instruct us that God is all. Attar of Nishapur

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. William Shakespeare

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately. Graham Nash

If a bird bills the rock then it trusts its beck. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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