What's the difference between hatful and peck?

Hatful


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (5) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
  • (6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (7) "On 22 May," reads the legend above their black fedora hats, "Jens and Sedsel will choose who's in charge in Europe .
  • (8) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
  • (9) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (10) In the present study, the clinical value of handgrip-apexcardiographic test (HAT) for identifying patients with new ischemia by the assessment of LV diastolic abnormalities during HG was prospectively investigated.
  • (11) Now, you have to put on a producer's hat, a director's hat, a writer's hat.
  • (12) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
  • (13) Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Zaïre is a medical problem of first importance, particularly in endemic areas where sleeping sickness threatens about 10 millions of human beings almost the third of the whole population.
  • (14) It is proposed that the acceleration of 3-HAT oxidation leads to the enhancement of the 3-HAT toxicity.
  • (15) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
  • (16) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (17) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
  • (18) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
  • (19) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (20) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.

Peck


Definition:

  • (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
  • (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
  • (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
  • (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
  • (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
  • (v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
  • (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
  • (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
  • (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
  • (2) The rate of key pecking in a component was negatively related to the proportion of reinforcers from the alternative (variable-time) source.
  • (3) No pigeon attacked the target; one pecked the shockplug on its back.
  • (4) This 'object' function is the summation of the food uptake by one second of pecking and one second of filter feeding.
  • (5) So strong is this image of Peck that his few honourable attempts at comedy, and his less successful portrayals of the baddie, are often forgotten.
  • (6) Hens socially dominant in three bird pens had higher liver fat accumulation than hens lower on the peck order but liver fat accumulation for the dominant hens still averaged less than hens housed either two or one per cage.
  • (7) He tweeted on Wednesday: “I did not pull out of presenting the Rory Peck Awards - they dropped me.” The awards were set up in 1995 in memory of freelance cameraman Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993.
  • (8) Pigeons were trained to peck a key on a multi FR30-FI3' schedule.
  • (9) Five pigeons pecked for food reinforcers on a concurrent variable-interval one-minute, variable-interval four-minute schedule.
  • (10) Day-old chicks peck when offered a bright bead; if the bead is coated with the bitter-tasting methylanthranilate (M) they avoid it thereafter.
  • (11) "You also said we haven't ended up with local radio at the bottom of the pecking order.
  • (12) The drug initially produced a marked decrease in aggressive behavior but had little or no effect on key pecking.
  • (13) The results showed that pigeons alternate when frequency-dependent selection is applied to single pecks because alternation is an easy-to-learn stable pattern that satisfies the frequency-dependent condition.
  • (14) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
  • (15) The effects of three amphetamine analogs were assessed in pigeons key pecking under a multiple 3-min fixed-interval (FI), 30 response fixed-ratio (FR) schedule of food presentation.
  • (16) Subsequently, over three phases, additions were made during the random-interval 1-minute component as follows: pecks during the component occasionally were punished by timeout presentation (Phase 1), timeouts were presented independently of responding during the component (Phase 2), pecks during the component occasionally were punished by electric-shock presentation (Phase 3).
  • (17) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
  • (18) 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.
  • (19) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (20) Pigeons' pecks were conditioned with food reinforcement.