Definizione monolingua

peck

peck (third-person singular simple present pecks, present participle pecking, simple past and past participle pecked)

1. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.

   The birds pecked at their food.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacobs Room, Chapter 2

     The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.

2. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

   He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.

3. To type by searching for each key individually.
4. (rare) To type in general.
5. To kiss.
   • 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, Chapter 1; 1998 ed., Scholastic Press, ISBN 0-590-35340-3, p. 2

     At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.

Wikipedia peck (plural pecks)

1. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.

   They picked a peck of wheat.

2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

   She figured most children probably ate a peck of dirt before they turned ten.

3. A short kiss.

   I greeted him with a quick peck on the cheek.

Definizione dizionario peck

bacetto

beccare

beccata

dare un bacino

pungere

Altri significati:

To type by searching for each key individually.

An Imperial unit of dry volume equal to eight dry quarts.

To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

To bother persistently with trivial complaints.

(rare) To type in general.

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument

a dry measure (316c. in.)

(to) peck

A short kiss.

One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.

A short kiss

(For a bird) To eat by small pieces with one's beak or bill.

To hit lightly with a picking motion.

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons.

To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.