(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.
Smack
Definition:
(n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
(v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
(v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.
(v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.
(v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
(v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.
(adv.) As if with a smack or slap.
(n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
(n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
(n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
(n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
(v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
(v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
(v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
(2) As a parent himself, he steered a deliberate course on discipline (neither he nor his wife ever smacked their girls) and on external influences - the family did not have a television while the children were young, preferring to read.
(3) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(4) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(5) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(6) As a strategy to enhance Miliband’s standing it was surely flawed and may even smack of desperation, suggesting that their man is locked out of larger media opportunities.
(7) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.
(8) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(9) One Labour source claimed the appointment of Green smacked of “Andy Coulson mark II”, a reference to Cameron’s decision to appoint the former News of the World editor as his press spokesman despite the reports of phone hacking at the newspaper.
(10) For the right, the word "vulnerable" smacks of victimhood, of ducking blame and not holding individuals accountable for their actions.
(11) For everything that matters, as of now, we are smack in the Post-Information Age.
(12) Evgeniy Khorishko, at the Russian embassy in Washington, also denied the claims, telling Itar-Tass that "such horror stories smack of cold war times".
(13) If we’re going to do this groupthink [a blanket ban] I think it would smack of petulance.” Jones added: “I stand by what Tony Abbott said: it [Q&A] is a lefty lynch mob.
(14) The strained efforts of Merkel and Steinmeier to stage a non-confrontational campaign smacked of a conspiracy of silence.
(15) Elements of both sides were looking for trouble and police were smack in the middle of that and that’s the sort of thing that is going to be problematic for us.
(16) That is some going, even by Fifa standards, though it smacks of incompetence and desperation rather than corruption.
(17) But this is a rare moment of good sense in a document that smacks of tactical manoeuvring – of the kind that may cause the corporation strategic harm.
(18) That smacks of bravado as the capital is around 1,000 miles away and the rebels number only 1,500 to 2,500 – and the Congolese army is about 150,000-strong.
(19) As UFC president Dana White tried to pull the two fighters together, Diaz raised his right hand and McGregor bent his left and smacked it away.
(20) Stirling's attempt to refuse the request, calling it "vexatious", smacks of fear.