(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.
Seck
Definition:
(a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is what enabled them to break the taboo, to break the silence.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An exhibition depicting the years Chad was ruled by Habré, at the Douta Secke Cultural Centre in Dakar.
(2) Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Senegal's health minister, told the Women Deliver conference on Wednesday that her country had committed to providing family planning services nationwide in an effort to increase coverage from 12%.
(3) They were identified as Freddy Budiman, an Indonesian citizen; Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke and Michael Titus Igweh, from Nigeria; and Seck Osmane, from Senegal.
(4) Senegal’s minister of health, Awa Marie Coll Seck, said: “The world community must realise that to make progress faster, countries need to follow their own plans, which may be different from plans drawn by donors; the one-size-fits-all does not work.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, speaks at the opening of the international conference on family planning in Bali.
(5) We have involved religious leaders, who are now saying, 'We need to protect women'; this is very important," Coll-Seck said.
(6) The most important proposed direct microscopic method for the detection of moulds were critically compared in 9 different nonfluid foods, of which 7 were naturally and 2 were artifically moulded.--Neither the Rot fragment test, nor the Howard Mould count or the NaOH treatment method proposed by Mossel (1975) were satisfying with non-fluid foods.--A significant improvement of the direct microscopic detection in the Breed-smear could be achieved by selective product specific staining of the fungi elements.--For low protein foods, a modified Pianese staining, and for low polysaccharide foods the Perjod-Schiff reaction proved to be appropriate and easy to carry out.--The slides of the selectively stained Breed-smears also allow a microscopic examination with high magnifications, so that a differenciation of fungus spores and hyphaes is possible.--Fungus spores, yeast cells and hyphal fragments can be counted by the method of Seck (1976).