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Definition: Beck |
BeckNoun1. A beckoning gesture. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | BECK. A beadle. See HERMANBECK. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Beck Hansen (b July 8, 1970) is an American musician and songwriter.
Beck Hansen was born in Los Angeles, California to artistic parents, David Campbell and Bibbe Hansen. When his parents separated, he stayed with his mother and brother in LA, where he would marinate in that city's diverse musical offerings--everything from hip-hop to latin music--and his mother's art scene.
After dropping out of high school in the mid-1980s, Beck educated himself and traveled widely. In Germany, he spent time with his maternal grandfather, fluxus artist Al Hansen. New York City and the late '80s found him part of the punk-influenced anti-folk music movement.
Beck returned to LA at the turn of the decade, destitute but motivated. To support himself, he took a variety of low-paying, dead-end jobs, and even lived in a shed, all the while continuing to develop his music. During this time, Beck sought out (or snuck onto) stages at venues all over LA, from punk clubs to coffee shops. In the spirit of an artist struggling to make a name for himself, his shows were memorable for their mix of humor and eccentricity.
It was in this atmosphere that the founders of Bong Load Custom Records discovered Beck, and brought him to the masses. Their 1993 12" vinyl Loser, from an initial run of 500 copies, created a sensation on alternative radio that led to a furious bidding war between studios to land a contract with Beck. Eventually, he chose Geffen Records, who offered him terms that included allowing for the release of independant albums while under contract.
In 1994, Geffen's release of Mellow Gold made Beck a mainstream success--and led to his iconic status as the "slacker" representative of the alternative music scene. Beck would comment often that like Loser, the song that inspired it, the "slacker" label was very ironic: at the time of Mellow Golds production, he had been anything but a slacker!
At the same time, he released One Foot in the Grave on independant K Records and Stereopathetic Soulmanure on Flipside Records. Beck took his act on the road with the 1995 Lollapalooza tour. Still, some critics panned him as a one-hit wonder.
That label was put to rest with the release of 1996's Odelay, a collaborative effort with the Dust Brothers. Critically acclaimed and driven by the huge hit Where It's At, Odelay earned an impressive number of industry awards, including two Grammies.
Odelay was followed in 1998 by Mutations, produced by Nigel Godrich of Radiohead fame. Mutations was a departure from the electronic wilderness of Odelay and Mellow Gold, and was filled with folk and blues influence.
In 1999, Geffen released the much-anticipated Midnite Vultures, an orgy of sexual and culinary inuendo that spawned a massive world tour. For Beck, it was a return to the high-energy performances that had been his trademark as far back as Lollapalooza--plus a brass section, costumes, and a red couch that descended from the ceiling for the song Debra.
After Midnite Vultures came Sea Change in 2002, another airy and emotional album with producer Nigel Godrich. The Sea Change tour featured The Flaming Lips as Beck's opening and backing band.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | At one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging; (benevolent). |
Command | Noun: command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod. |
Indication | Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent. |
Obedience | Adjective: obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call; under beck and call, under control. |
River | Spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary. |
Subjection | Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beck |
| English words defined with "beck": Becked, Becking ♦ To dance attendance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beck": DYE-REEL-OPERATOR HELPER, dye-room helper ♦ HARMAN BECK ♦ laborer, wash-and-dye house ♦ RUM BECK. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "beck": Beccabunga. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beck" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (beck, bench, bench in boat, thwart), Swedish (pitch). |
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Lyrics | With the aid of 8 dust brothers, Beck Hanson ("You Get What You Give"; performing artist: New Radicals) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beck - Sista vittnet (2002) The Rape of Richard Beck (1985) | |
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 | Standing l to r - Paul C. Whitney, D. R. Jewell, C. C. Craft, J. W. Milburn, Standing (cont.) H. L. Beck, R. J. Christman Sitting l to r - A. R. Hunter, H. W. Rhodes, John F. Pratt, Alfred L. Giacomini Sitting (cont.) - G. W. McLaughlin Officers on PATTERSON.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Dr. Carl Joseph Beck / Lith. H. Kraneck, gem. und gez. nach der natur.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | John B. Beck.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Fred Beck.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Frederick T. Beck.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The school house, North Branch, N.Y. / Artino series by C. Beck.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Südostwärts des Ilmensees / PK-Aufn.-Kriegsber, v.d. Beck HH.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A.S. Beck, business in Jamaica, New York. View to staircase.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Timber Structures. Beck Industrial building.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Birmingham, Alabama / Beck & Pauli lith., Milwaukee, Wis.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Beck" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.84% of the time. "Beck" is used about 544 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 72.84% | 397 | 14,057 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.16% | 148 | 25,903 |
| Total | 100.00% | 544 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beck" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beck | Last name | 37,000 | 299 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | Ludwig Beck am Rathauseck - Textilhaus Feldmeier AG | United Kingdom | Walker, Crips, Weddle, Beck Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "beck": at one's beck and call ♦ at your beck and call ♦ be at smb.'s beck and call ♦ have smb. at one's beck and call ♦ under beck and call. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "beck": beck-traversing, beck-water. | |
Ending with "beck": Dahl-beck. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beck | 1,736 |
jeff beck | 657 |
beck glenn | 313 |
beck holly | 287 |
beck lyrics | 256 |
john beck | 231 |
beck glen | 189 |
beck depression inventory | 143 |
rod beck | 89 |
beck arnley | 76 |
beck tab | 66 |
beck loser lyrics | 65 |
ryan beck | 62 |
martha beck | 62 |
beck hansen | 51 |
beck masten | 42 |
beck spyder | 40 |
aaron beck | 36 |
beck danielle | 34 |
michael beck | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), Rrëke (bourn, Bourne, burn, deluge, flood, flow, gush, rain, runlet, runnel, stream, torrent), Përrua (bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, brooklet, Creek, flow, nullah, rain, small river, Spruit, stream, streamlet, torrent, watercourse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غدير (brook, burn, rill, rivulet), إنحناءة إحترام (curtsey, scrape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Поток (Brook), Кимване, Махване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 小河 (Creek, Creeks, stream, STREAMS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Kývnutí (nod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Beck's operation for koronarsklerose (Beck method, Beck operation), Beck-Ibrahims sygdom (Beck disease, Beck-Ibrahim disease), Beck-Ibrahim's sygdom (Beck disease, Beck-Ibrahim disease), Beck-respirator (Beck respiration apparatus, Beck respirator), Beck's aortatang (Beck aorta clamp), Beck's baelte (Beck belt), Beck's blodmoelle (Beck blood pump), Beck's ekstensionsboejle (Beck stirrup, Beck wire tightener), Beck-Dieffenbach's boring (Beck bore), Beck's metode (Beck method), Beck's pasta (Beck paste), Beck's spatel (Beck spatula), Beck's triade (Beck triad), Beck's vingekanyle (Beck cannula, Beck tubule), Beck'ske boringer (Beck bore), Beck's gastrostomi (Beck operation, Beck-Jianu operation), syrekar (acid blowcase, acid egg, beck for acidifying, blowcase, egg, sourer), farvekar (dye beck, dye kettle, dye vat), inforatio (Beck bore, drill hole osteoclasis), kardiomyopeksi ad modum Beck (Beck I operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | boring van Beck (Beck bore), ziekte van Beck (Beck disease, Beck-Ibrahim disease), trias van Beck (Beck triad), spatel van Beck (Beck spatula), respirator van Beck (Beck respiration apparatus, Beck respirator), pasta van Beck (Beck paste), operatie van Beck (Beck I operation, Beck method, Beck operation), methode van Beck (Beck method), gastrostomie van Beck (Beck operation, Beck-Jianu operation), forage van Beck (Beck bore), cardiopericardopexie (Beck method, Beck operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تکان سریادست , تعظیم کردن (Bend, Bow), سرتکان دادن (Nod), اشاره (Allusion, Beckon, Ensign, Gesture, Hint, Inkling, Innuendo, Manifest, Mention, Referral, Slur, Symbol), باسرتصدیق کردن یاحالی کردن چیزی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Beckin kardiomyopeksia (Beck I operation), Beckin indeksi (Beck index), hapotusallas (beck for acidifying, sourer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Ruisseau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wink (character, hint, mark, nod, sign, suggestion, tip, wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Νεύμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ־חו", ק"" (Bob, bow, curtsey, obeisance), ״מיז". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Sziklás Medrû Patak, Jeladás (signal, signalling), Intés (admonishment, admonition, carpeting, caution, caveat, cue, exhortation, monition, wafture, wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Ruscello (bourn, Bourne, Brook, creek, riveret, rivulet, runlet, steamlet, stream), Cenno (allusion, gesture, hint, mention, nod, note, notice, outline, sign, wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自家薬 中の物 (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over), 薬 中の物 (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | やくろうちゅうのもの (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over), じかやくろうちゅうのもの (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | strooan slieau, smeidey (beckon, beckoning, nod, nodding), bett (bet; brook, wager), beck (bench, bench in boat, thwart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eckbay Sinal (alarm, character, denotation, denotement, deposit, gesture, guide, handsel, Hansel, impress, imprint, impulse, index, indication, mark, marking, note, Ober phenomenon, pledge, rubber stamp, scar, seal, sign, signal, signature, spot, stamp, symbol, symptom, tincture, token, trace, track, vestige, waveform, waveshape), Riacho (bourn, Brook, fleet, rill, stream, streamlet), Aceno (beckon, Bob, gesture, mark, sign, signal, token, wave). (various references) Semn (auspice, badge, brand, character, denotation, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, Mark, note, office, portent, print, property, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, vestige, wave), Pârâu De Munte, Gest (gest, gesticulation, gesture, motion, movement, office, wave), Face Semn (beckon, motion, wave). (various references) Кивок, Мановение, Сигнал укой, Сигнал. (various references) stražnji (postern, rear). (various references) Seña (character, mark, sign, signal, token, trace), Arroyo (arroyo, brook, burn, Creek, ditch, gutter, rill, runlet, runnel, stream), Ademán (flourish, gesture, motion, wave). (various references) Bäck (bourn, Bourne, brook, channel, Creek, duct, rill, riveret, rivulet, steamlet, stream, trench), Vink (cue, hint, inkling, intimation, line, office, sign, tip, wave), Nick (nod). (various references) ลำธาร (rill). (various references) Baş Ýşareti, Dere (bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, burn, Creek, dale, gully, kloof, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, stream, Vale, valley, watercourse), Çay (Bourne, Brook, Creek), ırmak (Brook, potamic, river, the horn). (various references) Привітання, Помах, Кланятися, Кивок, Манити "о Себе, Уклін, "авати Знак, Струмок (Brook, Creek), еверанс. (various references) sự vẫy tay, ngoan ngoãn phục tùng ai. (various references) awgrym (hint, suggestion), amnaid (nod, sign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beck": becked, becket, beckets, becking, beckon, beckoned, beckoner, beckoners, beckoning, beckons, becks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "beck": limbeck, pinchbeck, rebeck, zebeck. (additional references) | |
Words containing "beck": limbecks, pinchbecks, rebecks, rudbeckia, rudbeckias, zebecks. (additional references) | |
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"Beck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bacc, backg, Backo, Backx, baec, Bakok, Bbci, bc, bce, bcm, beacky, bec, beca, bech, Becka, becks, becky, Becu, beec, Beecke, beek, beik, bek, beke, beki, bekke, Bekki, bekko, Belk, Benci, benk, berc, Berck, berk, Bex, biccy, bick, bicka, blck, breck, Bsec, ebc, Ebcc, Ebco, Eccc, eck, ekk, feck, ibek, iecc, sbek. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beck" (pronounced be"k) |
| 2 | -e" k | bedeck, check, deck, Exec, feck, Fleck, geck, heck, Keck, Lech, lek, neck, pech, Peck, rec, recheck, reck, sec, spec, speck, trek, wreck. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-k" | |
-2 letters: be. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k" | |
+1 letter: becks. | |
+2 letters: backed, backer, becked, becket, beckon, bedeck, bemock, bicker, bucked, bucker, bucket, buckle, rebeck, zebeck. | |
+3 letters: backers, backhoe, backset, bechalk, beckets, becking, beckons, becloak, bedecks, bedrock, bedtick, befleck, bemocks, bickers, blacked, blacken, blacker, blocked, blocker, bracken, bracket, bricked, brickle, brocket, buckeen, buckers, buckets, buckeye, buckled, buckler, buckles, buckoes, dieback, kebbock, kebbuck, limbeck, rebecks, roebuck, setback, sickbed, tieback, wetback, zebecks. | |
+4 letters: backache, backbeat, backbend, backbite, backbone, backdate, backfire, backhoes, backless, backrest, backseat, backsets, backside, bareback, bechalks, beckoned, beckoner, becloaks, bedecked, bedrocks, bedticks, beefcake, beflecks, bemocked, benedick, bickered, bickerer, blackens, blackest, blackleg, blesbuck, blockade, blockage, blockers, blockier, bluejack, bluetick, bookcase, booklice, brackens, brackets, brickier, brickles, brockage, brockets, buckbean, buckeens, buckeroo, bucketed, buckeyes, bucklers, buckshee, bullneck, casebook, clambake, codebook, comblike, comeback, cookable, diebacks, feedback, fireback, gemsbuck, giveback, iceblink, kebbocks, kebbucks, kickable, limbecks, lockable, megabuck, mockable, neckband, packable, redbrick, reedbuck, rockabye, roebucks, scablike, setbacks, sickbeds, skewback, subclerk, tiebacks, unbacked, unbuckle, wetbacks, zwieback. | |
+5 letters: amberjack, backaches, backbeats, backbench, backbends, backbiter, backbites, backbones, backdated, backdates, backfield, backfired, backfires, backhouse, backpedal, backrests, backseats, backsides, backslide, backspace, backstage, backswept, backwater, barracked, barracker, bechalked, beckoners, beckoning, becloaked, bedecking, beefcakes, beflecked, bemocking, benchmark, benedicks, bickerers, bickering, blackened, blackener, blackface, blackhead, blacklead, blacklegs, blackness, blesbucks, blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockages, blockhead, blockiest, bluejacks, blueticks, bodycheck, bookcases, bracketed, breakneck, brickiest, brockages, buckbeans, buckeroos, bucketful, bucketing, bucklered, buckramed, buckshees, buckteeth, buckwheat, bullnecks, camelback, canebrake, casebooks, cellblock, checkable, checkbook, cheekbone, clambakes, cocklebur, codebooks, comebacks, cyberpunk, feedbacks, firebacks, firebrick, gemsbucks, givebacks, greenback, gutbucket, hackberry, horseback, iceblinks, kickboxer, leaseback, lockboxes, megabucks, neckbands, paperback, parbuckle, pinchbeck, redbricks, reedbucks, rockabies, rockabyes, rudbeckia, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, skewbacks, stackable, subclerks, sweepback, trebucket, unblocked, unbuckled, unbuckles, waterbuck, whaleback, workbench, zwiebacks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 63 6B |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36716977 |
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