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Webster 1913 Edition
Beck
Beck
,Noun.
[OE.
bek
, AS. becc
; akin to Icel. bekkr
brook, OHG. pah
, G. bach
.] A small brook.
The brooks, the
becks
, the rills. Drayton.
Beck
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Becked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Becking
.] [
Contr
. of beckon
.] To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.
[Archaic]
Drayton.
Beck
,Verb.
T.
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.
[Archaic]
When gold and silver
becks
me to come on. Shakespeare
Beck
,Noun.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
They have troops of soldiers at their
beck
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Beck
BECK
,Noun.
BECK
,Noun.
BECK
,Verb.
I.
BECK
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Beck
Beck
Translingual
Proper noun
Beck
- A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck (1856-1931).
German
Etymology
From Middle French bec (“beak”).
Noun
Beck m (genitive Becks or Beckes, plural Becke)
- (falconry) The beak of a bird of prey.
Declension
Declension of Beck
Proper noun
Beck m, f (genitive Becks)
- A surname.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɛk]
- Hyphenation: Beck
Proper noun
Beck
- A surname.
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Beck | Beckek |
| accusative | Becket | Beckeket |
| dative | Becknek | Beckeknek |
| instrumental | Beckkel | Beckekkel |
| causal-final | Beckért | Beckekért |
| translative | Beckké | Beckekké |
| terminative | Beckig | Beckekig |
| essive-formal | Beckként | Beckekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Beckben | Beckekben |
| superessive | Becken | Beckeken |
| adessive | Becknél | Beckeknél |
| illative | Beckbe | Beckekbe |
| sublative | Beckre | Beckekre |
| allative | Beckhez | Beckekhez |
| elative | Beckből | Beckekből |
| delative | Beckről | Beckekről |
| ablative | Becktől | Beckektől |
| Possessive forms of Beck | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Beckem | Beckjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | Becked | Beckjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | Beckje | Beckjei |
| 1st person plural | Beckünk | Beckjeink |
| 2nd person plural | Becketek | Beckjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | Beckjük | Beckjeik |
beck
beck
English
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- (Norfolk, Northern England) A stream or small river.
- Drayton
- The brooks, the becks, the rills.
- Drayton
Synonyms
Etymology 2
A shortened form of beckon, from Old English bēcnan, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”).
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
beck (third-person singular simple present becks, present participle becking, simple past and past participle becked)
- (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
- Shakespeare
- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
- 1881, Various, The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III:
- The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing.
- Shakespeare
Etymology 3
See back.
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- A vat.
Etymology 4
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- Obsolete form of beak.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)