Beak vs Muzzle - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between beak and muzzle

is that beak is seize with the beak while muzzle is to bring the muzzle or mouth near.

As nouns the difference between beak and muzzle

is that beak is anatomical uses while muzzle is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout.

As verbs the difference between beak and muzzle

is that beak is strike with the beak while muzzle is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

beak

English

Noun

(en noun)

Anatomical uses .

# A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food.

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

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

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

# The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

# (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

Figurative uses .

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

(Carew)

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

# (farriery) A toe clip.

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

# (nautical) A beam, shod or 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.

Colloquial uses .

# (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.

# (slang, British) A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority.

He's up before the beak again tomorrow.

I clapp'd my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free (I began to weep, and the judge set me free)

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Synonyms

* (sense, rigid structure projecting from a bird's face) bill * (human nose) honker, schnozzle

Derived terms

* beakish * wet one's beak

Verb

(en verb)

strike with the beak.

seize with the beak.

Anagrams

References

muzzle

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)

The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout

The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.

A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

(chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle

(obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Derived terms

* muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

Verb

(muzzl)

To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

(figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.

* 1919 , :

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

(obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.

(obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

* (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange

The bear muzzles and smells to him.

Derived terms

* muzzler

References

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