What's the difference between beak and preen?

Beak


Definition:

  • (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
  • (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
  • (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
  • (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
  • (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
  • (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
  • (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
  • (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
  • (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
  • (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
  • (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).
  • (n.) A magistrate or policeman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
  • (2) Apert-Crouzon syndrome (formerly ACS type 2; 10130) is now considered a subset of autosomal dominant Apert acrocephalosyndactyly type 1 (10120), with features of craniosynostoisis, syndactyly of all extremities, maxillary hypoplasia, "parrot-beaked" nose, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, external strabismus, and short upper lip.
  • (3) Two experiments were conducted to compare beak treatment effects on pullets of three genetic stocks.
  • (4) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
  • (5) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
  • (6) Two cases are reported with the following symptoms: broad thumbs and toes, typical facial abnormalities with beaked nose and hypertelorism.
  • (7) Strain effects were noted in rate of feed consumption following beak trimming.
  • (8) The area dorsalis projects 10 degrees-15 degrees below the eye-beak axis where the field is 35 degrees wide.
  • (9) Retinoid treatment interferes with reciprocal epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in the upper beak.
  • (10) Primary sensory projection areas, such as the ectostriatum (visual), hyperstriatum intercalatum superius (visual), nucleus basalis (beak representation), the input layer L2 of the auditory field L and the somatosensory area rostral to field L were selectively left unstained.
  • (11) The beak and legs malformations are prevented by analogs of nicotinamide.
  • (12) The various components of these muscles are provided with stiff as well as wide aponeuroses and tendons (much stronger than those observed in Columba), indicating forceful opening and closure of the beaks for plucking off the fruit, grasping it hard and manipulating it with the help of the beaks before swallowing.
  • (13) A cyclical load of 500 N was applied to the handles of the pliers, while a 0.9 mm (0.036 inch) round, stainless steel wire was held between the tips of the beaks.
  • (14) The evolution of the component was studied after sequencing the component in different odontocetes representing the Delphinidae (delphinids), Monodontidae (narwhals), and Ziphiidae (beaked whales).
  • (15) Beak trimming affected body weight and feed usage levels for the sexes differently.
  • (16) Egg quality and size were not influenced by beak trimming treatments.
  • (17) This study in the chicken investigated whether the integrity of taste buds in the lower beak is normally dependent upon innervation by the chorda tympani.
  • (18) A low incidence of gross malformations such as twisted limbs, abnormal beak, short neck and everted viscera were observed; however, the increased incidence was not statistically significant when compared to controls.
  • (19) The value of a combined developmental and functional approach to morphology, i.e., integrated investigation of development of structure and function of the beaks and related jaw musculature, is discussed.
  • (20) Genetic stock by age and beak treatment by age interactions were present for hen-housed production and egg mass, and the interactions appeared to result primarily from increased mortality from cannibalistic pecking with increased age.

Preen


Definition:

  • (n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
  • (n.) To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.
  • (n.) To trim up, as trees.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (2) His running here was unstinting and he doubled his tally with a clinical finish after a first touch too smart for Pogatetz, preening perhaps after giving Boro a sniff of reprieve.
  • (3) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
  • (4) What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz.
  • (5) He remembers Obama's incoming cabinet posing for portraits in the White House during the height of the crisis: “what a weird and preening thing for us to do while the world is burning”.
  • (6) 'Jonathan Saunders, Preen, Berardi, Kane and JW Anderson are on fire' Those are the names you will be raving about now.
  • (7) Romney's event is being organised by Scott Preen, a London company that specialises in high-profile political fundraising parties.
  • (8) If the Packham show emphasised a disconnect between the fashion industry's quest for trends and pure red carpet dressing, then the Preen show later in the day underlined how a move to the US can give a British label a healthy dollop of slickness.
  • (9) At best, these corporate-dominated panels are mostly useless: preening sessions in which chief executives exercise messiah complexes.
  • (10) Total lipid was extracted from chicken (Gallus domesticus) epidermis, leg scale, claws, feathers and preen glands and analyzed by quantitative thin-layer chromatography.
  • (11) Comparatively higher activity was observed in the extent of ambulation and rearing at 5 weeks old, rearing and preening at 7 weeks old, and preening and defecation at 11 weeks old in the Sprague-Dawley rats compared with the Wistar rats.
  • (12) In his preening, know-it-all professional arrogance, Cruise thinks he's bulletproof, but the mouse roars, and the hitman pays (incidentally, when casting a soullessly efficient, emotionally unavailable professional, could there be a more perfect candidate than Cruise?).
  • (13) The animals showed depressed response of preening on day 2 and 6.
  • (14) In 1909, the American illustrator Rose O’Neill drew a comic strip about “kewpies” (taken from cupid) – preening babylike creatures with tiny wings and huge heads, which were handed out as carnival prizes and capered around Jell-O ads (to this day, Kewpie Mayonnaise, introduced in 1925, is the top-selling brand in Japan).
  • (15) Trichobilharzia ocellata cercariae attach readily to the foot skin of their duck host, but poorly to preen-gland contents.
  • (16) Jane, a journalist in her 40s, thinks so: "I won't stay long in the weights room," she says: "The men are preening themselves.
  • (17) In the short-term, times spent feeding, drinking and preening decreased.
  • (18) Daily decrease was observed in ambulation, rearing and preening responses, with maximum decrement on the seventh day of Dimecron intoxication.
  • (19) From day 9, the preening response exhibited a continuous increasing pattern until the last day of the experiment.
  • (20) Power is meaningless unless it’s displayed, enacted: hence Vladimir Putin’s bare-chested preening or his sessions of bone-crushing judo .