different between cradle vs beck

English

Etymology

From Middle English cradel, credel, from Old English cradol, from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz, from Proto-Germanic *kradô (“(wicker) basket”). Cognates with cart.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr??d?l, IPA^(key): /?k?e?d?l/
• Rhymes: -e?d?l

Noun

cradle (plural cradles)

1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation

     the cradle that received thee at thy birth
2. (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.

   a cradle of crime

   the cradle of liberty

3. (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

   from the cradle to the grave
4. An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
5. A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
6. A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
7. A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
8. A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
9. (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
10. (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
11. (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

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12. (nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

    The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.

13. A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.

    He slammed the handset into the cradle.

14. (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
15. A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.

Synonyms

• (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth): rocker
• (rest for receiver of a telephone): rest

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crib

Verb

cradle (third-person singular simple present cradles, present participle cradling, simple past and past participle cradled)

1. (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
2. (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
3. (transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.

4. To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
5. To nurse or train in infancy.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.

6. (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
7. To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
8. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
   • {1847, {w|Edward Henry Knight}}, American Mechanical Dictionary

     In Lombardy […] boats are cradled and transported over the grade.

9. To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

Translations

Anagrams

• Calder, cardel, carled, clear'd, credal, reclad

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”).

Cognate with Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Old English bæc, bec, bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook”). Doublet of batch. More at beach.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 3[1]:

     […] Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets […]

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIII:

     {...} the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Troutbeck

Etymology 2

From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English b?cnan, b?acnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukn? (“beacon”). More at beacon.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

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

Derived terms

• beck and call

Translations

Verb

beck (third-person singular simple present becks, present participle becking, simple past and past participle becked)

1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

Etymology 3

See back.

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. A vat.

Etymology 4

From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”),

Noun

beck (plural becks)

1. Obsolete form of beak.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k(i)

Noun

beck m (plural becks)

1. Alternative spelling of beque

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German pik, from Latin pix. See also Dutch pek, German Pech.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: bäck

Noun

beck n

1. pitch; A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

Declension

Related terms

• becksvart