Beck vs. Peck — What's the Difference?

Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres.

A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.81 liters.

A gesture of beckoning or summons.

To strike with the beak or a pointed instrument.

A small brook; a creek.

To make (a hole, for example) by striking repeatedly with the beak or a pointed instrument.

A stream or small river.

To grasp and pick up with the beak

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.

(Informal) To kiss briefly and casually.

A vat.

To make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument.

Obsolete form of beak

To eat in small sparing bits; nibble

(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

To make repeated criticisms; carp

See Beak.

A stroke or light blow with the beak or a pointed instrument.

A small brook.

A mark or hole made by such a stroke.

A vat. See Back.

(Informal) A light quick kiss.

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

A unit of dry volume or capacity in the US Customary System equal to 8 quarts or approximately 537.6 cubic inches.

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.

A unit of dry volume or capacity in the British Imperial System equal to 8 quarts or approximately 554.8 cubic inches.

To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

A container holding or measuring a peck.

A beckoning gesture

(Informal) A large quantity; a lot

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

(transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.

To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.

To do something in small, intermittent pieces.

To type by searching for each key individually.

(rare) To type in general.

To kiss briefly.

(regional) To throw.

To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.

An act of striking with a beak.

A small kiss.

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

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.

Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; - often with up.

To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.

To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.

To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

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

A United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

Hit lightly with a picking motion

Eat by pecking at, like a bird

Kiss lightly

Eat like a bird;

Bother persistently with trivial complaints;