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noun bɛkbɛk Northern English A stream. 〈北英格兰〉小溪 Example sentencesExamples - It said that the conditions in Stirton beck were not bad enough to justify the £700,000 needed to install a public sewer.
- A new stream will be created linked to Black Dyke beck while shallow pools and hollows will be created in preparation for natural flooding next winter.
- Public right of way across field was not reinstated, so straight across, right at hedge/beck - used a path some of way to left of beck through trees.
- The floods came quickly, paddy fields filled up and overflowed as their trickling water channels became frothing torrents, the little streams and becks that characterised Kendip transformed into surging mud flows.
- But £160,000 is needed for the final phase, a pumping station to discharge water from the beck into the River Derwent.
- Located on a low hill above the confluence of the Naddle beck and the river Greta surrounded by high mountains.
- Water from a beck which feeds into the River Wharfe at Ryther, near Tadcaster, backed up and blocked the main road through the village.
- After a further length of idyllic beck and dappled sunlight we cut back through a pretty farm and found a place to sit and enjoy the view and watch a farmer repair a drystone wall.
- She is still clearing up her house, an astonishing 571 days after it was inundated when the nearby town beck burst its banks last March.
- He was making his way home to Aspen Lane when it seems he tripped over a low wall on Water Street and fell about five feet into Earby beck.
- But if the owners cut pipe costs by operating combined drains, the whole lot goes into the treatment plant, and when that is overwhelmed, the surplus mixture goes into becks or rivers.
- Footbridge over beck, stile, uphill to gate, 11 o'clock for 100 yards to stile on left by old shed (waymark).
- They are, in short, major predators of young trout and the fly fishing season is just getting underway on the River Beggar and the becks that feed it.
- To put that in context, the pollution of Osbaldwick beck by a timber treatment company, fought off by local opposition, could well have gone ahead with the public reservations disallowed.
- ‘It would be excellent if we could find more money to clean this beck,’ he said.
- This would be used to pump water from the beck into the river when the sluice was closed, so that beckwater did not itself back up and flood the roads.
- Jane Morgan, prosecuting on behalf of the Environment Agency, said the beck was a tributary of the River Wenning and an important watercourse for the local fish population.
- The theme being fine farms and fine houses, springs, becks, notable ponds and, best of all, a super winter mix of miles of clean tracks and even more miles over splendid sheep pasture.
- Meanwhile, a Humberside Fire spokesperson said about 30 properties in and around Pocklington had been affected after the town's beck had burst its banks.
- If becks and streams are blocked and exacerbating the flooding issue, then it will need to do a similar exercise on them.
- Six watercourses in Bradford are the first of three batches of becks and streams in Yorkshire to come under the control of the Environment Agency.
- This meant that farmers as well as water companies would need to take action - because of the problems associated with water running off fields into streams and becks and ending up in the sea.
- A fuel leak which damaged a South Lakeland beck and endangered water supplies to 250,000 homes in Greater Manchester has cost a plant hire company almost 9,000.
- The villagers are trying to fund the installation of a pumping station to pump water from the beck into the river.
- Left to road, bridge over beck, gap in hedge and across field for 100 yards then uphill with fence to right (signed by road).
- Neighbouring gardens were also affected and in a desperate bid to keep the flowing water away from the house, the Fleshers dug a trench diverting the stream into a nearby beck.
- Residents in Hovingham have dug a massive trench which they hope will divert flood waters safely away from their homes from one beck to another nearby.
- There are only about ten houses affected by this beck and it just seems like we are too small to count.
- The landscape has a spring, a waterfall filling the beck and a Dales cottage sitting just above.
- We are nowhere near the river, let alone becks, and are very high up compared to the village which is flooded at present.
- The first two miles are on public rights of way, down a lovely valley with a pretty blossomed beck that cascades through rocks plastered with liverworts.
- The only significant natural damaging action, in the current climate, is erosion by topographically canalised rain water, mostly confined to becks and burns.
- The jury were shown a single-barrelled and a double-barrelled shotgun that police found under a bridge over the Tang Hall beck at the entrance to the site on May 10 with a spent cartridge.
- Walking along the edge of Thirlmere, it's hard to imagine this vast expanse of water was once two small shallow lakes, a bridge, open fields and a meandering Lakeland beck.
- And many villagers volunteered to help dig a ditch that will divert floodwaters from one beck to another.
- The size of St Nicks is increased by taking over the land alongside Osbaldwick beck and Bull Lane.
- The trench, which has been dug on land at nearby Hovingham farm, will hopefully divert water from the beck running through the centre of Hovingham to nearby Marrs Beck, where there are no houses.
- Streams and becks were strewn with tree trunks, branches and litter which would all block the watercourses during heavy rain.
- Sandbags were issued today to property owners in Pickering as rising water levels in the town's beck sparked fears of flooding.
- Because there were still plenty of crayfish in the becks and streams, and they are the first to go if there is pollution.
Synonyms brook, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse bekkr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch beek and German Bach. Used as the common term for a brook in northern areas, beck often refers, in literature, to a brook with a stony bed or following a rugged course, typical of such areas. If you are at someone's beck and call you have to be ready to obey their orders immediately. The phrase is known from the 19th century, but beck itself is much older, being a Middle English shortening of beckon. The northern English word beck (Middle English), meaning a stream or brook, is unconnected, and comes from Old Norse.
Rhymesbedeck, check, cheque, Chiang Kai-shek, crosscheck, Czech, deck, dreck, exec, fleck, heck, hitech, keck, lek, neck, peck, Québec, rec, reck, sec, sneck, spec, speck, spot-check, tec, tech, Toulouse-Lautrec, trek, wreck noun bɛkbɛk literary A gesture requesting attention, such as a nod or wave. 〈诗/文〉（示意他人注意的）点头；招手 Example sentencesExamples - And when Niall, who stood on the sideline for 40 minutes, finally got the beck, he didn't disappoint, scoring his first point in 20 years.
- Come to think of it, I have the Antidote to Rage lying in my DVD player awaiting for the beck of a remote control.
- And second, it had always been my assumption that anyone interested in getting involved could do so without the beck of enthusiastic recruiters.
Phrasesat someone's beck and call literary Always having to be ready to obey someone's orders immediately. 惟某人之命是从，随时听候某人的差遣 enjoy having servants at your beck and call she was at her mother's beck and call Example sentencesExamples - But unless the Greens manage a heroic surge, it, too, might have to operate at Winston 's beck and call.
- But it looks like he is ready to have the Cabinet at his beck and call.
- The Council is not at his beck and call and, therefore, not ready to sign on the dotted lines.
- If you let yourself be controlled by the industry, you'll always be at their beck and call.
- The rooms are spacious, there are chandeliers in the hall, sofa beds for family members and gourmet chefs at your beck and call.
- She would never feel at home in a mansion with servants at her beck and call.
- After a year of being at George 's beck and call anytime of the day or night, Lucy has had enough and gives two weeks notice
- ‘You journalists think I am at your beck and call,’ he snaps.
- Whenever he's home, she's always expected to be at his beck and call.
- Peabee had certainly known life on the penthouse floor: Women always at his beck and call.
OriginMiddle English: from archaic beck, abbreviated form of beckon. nounbekbɛk Northern English A mountain stream. Example sentencesExamples - The first two miles are on public rights of way, down a lovely valley with a pretty blossomed beck that cascades through rocks plastered with liverworts.
- He was making his way home to Aspen Lane when it seems he tripped over a low wall on Water Street and fell about five feet into Earby beck.
- The trench, which has been dug on land at nearby Hovingham farm, will hopefully divert water from the beck running through the centre of Hovingham to nearby Marrs Beck, where there are no houses.
- The size of St Nicks is increased by taking over the land alongside Osbaldwick beck and Bull Lane.
- Walking along the edge of Thirlmere, it's hard to imagine this vast expanse of water was once two small shallow lakes, a bridge, open fields and a meandering Lakeland beck.
- Sandbags were issued today to property owners in Pickering as rising water levels in the town's beck sparked fears of flooding.
- It said that the conditions in Stirton beck were not bad enough to justify the £700,000 needed to install a public sewer.
- The landscape has a spring, a waterfall filling the beck and a Dales cottage sitting just above.
- Streams and becks were strewn with tree trunks, branches and litter which would all block the watercourses during heavy rain.
- This would be used to pump water from the beck into the river when the sluice was closed, so that beckwater did not itself back up and flood the roads.
- The theme being fine farms and fine houses, springs, becks, notable ponds and, best of all, a super winter mix of miles of clean tracks and even more miles over splendid sheep pasture.
- We are nowhere near the river, let alone becks, and are very high up compared to the village which is flooded at present.
- The floods came quickly, paddy fields filled up and overflowed as their trickling water channels became frothing torrents, the little streams and becks that characterised Kendip transformed into surging mud flows.
- Located on a low hill above the confluence of the Naddle beck and the river Greta surrounded by high mountains.
- She is still clearing up her house, an astonishing 571 days after it was inundated when the nearby town beck burst its banks last March.
- A new stream will be created linked to Black Dyke beck while shallow pools and hollows will be created in preparation for natural flooding next winter.
- After a further length of idyllic beck and dappled sunlight we cut back through a pretty farm and found a place to sit and enjoy the view and watch a farmer repair a drystone wall.
- The villagers are trying to fund the installation of a pumping station to pump water from the beck into the river.
- If becks and streams are blocked and exacerbating the flooding issue, then it will need to do a similar exercise on them.
- They are, in short, major predators of young trout and the fly fishing season is just getting underway on the River Beggar and the becks that feed it.
- To put that in context, the pollution of Osbaldwick beck by a timber treatment company, fought off by local opposition, could well have gone ahead with the public reservations disallowed.
- Footbridge over beck, stile, uphill to gate, 11 o'clock for 100 yards to stile on left by old shed (waymark).
- ‘It would be excellent if we could find more money to clean this beck,’ he said.
- Because there were still plenty of crayfish in the becks and streams, and they are the first to go if there is pollution.
- There are only about ten houses affected by this beck and it just seems like we are too small to count.
- The jury were shown a single-barrelled and a double-barrelled shotgun that police found under a bridge over the Tang Hall beck at the entrance to the site on May 10 with a spent cartridge.
- But £160,000 is needed for the final phase, a pumping station to discharge water from the beck into the River Derwent.
- Six watercourses in Bradford are the first of three batches of becks and streams in Yorkshire to come under the control of the Environment Agency.
- Residents in Hovingham have dug a massive trench which they hope will divert flood waters safely away from their homes from one beck to another nearby.
- And many villagers volunteered to help dig a ditch that will divert floodwaters from one beck to another.
- This meant that farmers as well as water companies would need to take action - because of the problems associated with water running off fields into streams and becks and ending up in the sea.
- Left to road, bridge over beck, gap in hedge and across field for 100 yards then uphill with fence to right (signed by road).
- But if the owners cut pipe costs by operating combined drains, the whole lot goes into the treatment plant, and when that is overwhelmed, the surplus mixture goes into becks or rivers.
- Public right of way across field was not reinstated, so straight across, right at hedge/beck - used a path some of way to left of beck through trees.
- The only significant natural damaging action, in the current climate, is erosion by topographically canalised rain water, mostly confined to becks and burns.
- Meanwhile, a Humberside Fire spokesperson said about 30 properties in and around Pocklington had been affected after the town's beck had burst its banks.
- A fuel leak which damaged a South Lakeland beck and endangered water supplies to 250,000 homes in Greater Manchester has cost a plant hire company almost 9,000.
- Water from a beck which feeds into the River Wharfe at Ryther, near Tadcaster, backed up and blocked the main road through the village.
- Neighbouring gardens were also affected and in a desperate bid to keep the flowing water away from the house, the Fleshers dug a trench diverting the stream into a nearby beck.
- Jane Morgan, prosecuting on behalf of the Environment Agency, said the beck was a tributary of the River Wenning and an important watercourse for the local fish population.
Synonyms brook, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse bekkr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch beek and German Bach. Used as the common term for a brook in northern areas, beck often refers, in literature, to a brook with a stony bed or following a rugged course, typical of such areas. nounbekbɛk literary A gesture requesting attention, such as a nod or wave. 〈诗/文〉（示意他人注意的）点头；招手 Example sentencesExamples - Come to think of it, I have the Antidote to Rage lying in my DVD player awaiting for the beck of a remote control.
- And when Niall, who stood on the sideline for 40 minutes, finally got the beck, he didn't disappoint, scoring his first point in 20 years.
- And second, it had always been my assumption that anyone interested in getting involved could do so without the beck of enthusiastic recruiters.
Phrasesat someone's beck and call literary Always having to be ready to obey someone's orders immediately. 惟某人之命是从，随时听候某人的差遣 enjoy having servants at your beck and call she was at her mother's beck and call Example sentencesExamples - ‘You journalists think I am at your beck and call,’ he snaps.
- If you let yourself be controlled by the industry, you'll always be at their beck and call.
- Peabee had certainly known life on the penthouse floor: Women always at his beck and call.
- After a year of being at George 's beck and call anytime of the day or night, Lucy has had enough and gives two weeks notice
- Whenever he's home, she's always expected to be at his beck and call.
- The Council is not at his beck and call and, therefore, not ready to sign on the dotted lines.
- But unless the Greens manage a heroic surge, it, too, might have to operate at Winston 's beck and call.
- She would never feel at home in a mansion with servants at her beck and call.
- But it looks like he is ready to have the Cabinet at his beck and call.
- The rooms are spacious, there are chandeliers in the hall, sofa beds for family members and gourmet chefs at your beck and call.
OriginMiddle English: from archaic beck, abbreviated form of beckon. |