Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Initialism of North Equatorial Band.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Initialism of National Enterprise Board.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Initialism of New English Bible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Abbreviation of Nebraska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A bird's beak.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bill, pecker
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person's mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person's nose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The peak of a flat cap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A nib, as of a pen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of nebulizer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
horny projecting mouth of a bird
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: beak, bill, nib, pecker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mouth
Narrower terms: cere
noun
a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: snout
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nose, olfactory organ
Narrower terms: proboscis, trunk
History
From Middle English neb, from Old English nebb (“beak, nose, face”), from Proto-Germanic *nabją (“beak, nose”). Cognate with Danish næb, Dutch neb, German Schnabel, Old Norse nef, Swedish näbb, Swedish regional näv.
