| 单词 | peck |
| 释义 | peck (once / 949 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4n To peck is to jab or bite at something the way a bird does with its beak. A peck is also a unit of measurement, like when Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. (“Eight quarts” just didn’t sound right.) Most birds peck at their food, and when a person eats in a bird-like way, they also peck. Another way to peck is to give someone a light kiss, a peck on the cheek. A completely different kind of peck is a unit of measurement. In the US, a peck is one quarter of a bushel, or two gallons of a dry substance. The verb sense of peck comes from 1500s thieves' slang, in which it meant "food." WORD FAMILYpeck: pecked, pecker, pecking, pecks+/pecker: peckers USAGE EXAMPLESDewdrop, the fleet, luminous leader of the Flowers in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” is a dream part for Tiler Peck of New York City Ballet. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) The pecking order for the game is clear, too. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) Where do they fit in the pecking order? New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1v hit lightly with a picking motion Syn|Hyper beak, pick strike deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 2v eat like a bird Syn|Hyper peck at, pick at eat take in solid food 3v eat by pecking at, like a bird 2Syn|Hyper pick up eat take in solid food v kiss lightly 3Syn|Hyper smack buss, kiss, osculate, snog touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. v bother persistently with trivial complaints 4Syn|Hyper hen-peck, nag complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness 1n a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons Hyper British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet 2n a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches Hyper United States dry unit a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System 3n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
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