apprehend vs beak

apprehend

verb
  • To seize or take (something); to take hold of. 

  • To be or become aware of (something); to perceive. 

  • To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard. 

  • To understand. 

  • To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose. 

  • To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest. 

  • To be apprehensive; to fear. 

  • To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear. 

  • To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize. 

  • To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand. 

beak

verb
  • Seize with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

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