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# beak

«beak» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The hard pointed mouth of a bird, which it uses to eat…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a beak, beaks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The hard pointed mouth of a bird, which it uses to eat, pick things up and build nests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#m1)

2) A similar hard mouth of some other animals, like a turtle or an octopus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the shape of a beak tells what a bird eats: a hooked beak tears meat, a long thin one reaches nectar, a short thick one cracks seeds — a good example of animals being adapted to their food. In stories, a bird pecks or taps with its beak. Phrases: «in its beak», «a hooked beak», «peck with its beak».

### examples

- Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; thou hast drunken the beaker, even the cup of staggering, and drained it. (Prophets ISA.51.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x1)
- The robin carried a worm in its beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x2)
- A parrot can crack nuts with its strong beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x3)
- The eagle has a sharp hooked beak for tearing meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x4)
- A hummingbird's long thin beak reaches deep into flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x5)
- The duck dabbled in the mud with its flat beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x6)
- The chick broke the shell with a tiny tooth on its beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x7)
- Don't put your face near a goose — its beak can nip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x8)
- Turtles have beaks instead of teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x9)
- "I'll bite hold of you with my beak." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/#x10)

### note

Countable: a beak, beaks. Birds have no teeth; the beak does the work of teeth. Another word for a bird's beak is «bill», used especially for ducks. In old British school slang a «beak» was a judge or teacher, but that is rare now.

### In the corpora

- [Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/11/)
- [Birds of prey, also called raptors, hunt other animals with sharp eyes, hooked beaks and gripping feet with curved talons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/0/)
- [Real roadrunners do not say «meep meep»; they make soft cooing sounds and loud rattles by clattering their beaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/7/)
- [Penguins can drink sea water, because a special gland above the eyes removes extra salt, which drips out from the beak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/129-madagascar-real-penguins-and-chimps/11/)
- [Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.