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English noun: peck | |||
| 1. | peck (quantity) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | ||
| Samples | A batch of letters. A deal of trouble. A lot of money. He made a mint on the stock market. See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos. It must have cost plenty. A slew of journalists. A wad of money. | ||
| Synonyms | 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deluge, flood, haymow, inundation, torrent | ||
| 2. | peck (quantity) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit | ||
| Part meronym | bushel | ||
| 3. | peck (quantity) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | United States dry unit | ||
| Part holonym | dry quart, quart | ||
| Part meronym | bushel | ||
English verb: peck | |||
| 1. | peck (contact) hit lightly with a picking motion | ||
| Synonyms | beak, pick | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody PP. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | strike | ||
| 2. | peck (consumption) eat by pecking at, like a bird | ||
| Synonyms | pick up | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | eat | ||
| 3. | peck (contact) kiss lightly | ||
| Examples | Sam cannot peck Sue | ||
| Synonyms | smack | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | buss, kiss, osculate, snog | ||
| 4. | peck (consumption) eat like a bird | ||
| Samples | The anorexic girl just picks at her food. | ||
| Synonyms | peck at, pick at | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | eat | ||
| 5. | peck (communication) bother persistently with trivial complaints | ||
| Samples | She nags her husband all day long. | ||
| Synonyms | hen-peck, nag | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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