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Dictionary: neb   (nĕb) pronunciation
n.
    1. A beak of a bird.
    2. A nose; a snout.
  1. A projecting part, especially a nib.

[Middle English, from Old English.]


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WordNet: neb
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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
  Synonym: snout

Meaning #2: horny projecting mouth of a bird
  Synonyms: beak, bill, nib, pecker


Wikipedia: NEB
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neb may refer to:

NEB may refer to:

  • Nose in Everyone's Business, a Busybody or Gossip
  • National Enterprise Board, former government body set up in the United Kingdom in 1975 to implement the Wilson Labour government's objective of extending public ownership of industry
  • National Energy Board, a Canadian independent federal agency which regulates the oil, gas and electric utility industries.
  • National Ethics Bureau
  • New England Biolabs, U.S. corporation, produces and supplies reagents for the life science industry
  • New English Bible, a fresh translation of the Bible into modern English directly from the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts (with some Latin in the Apocrypha)
  • North Equatorial belt, a Cloud pattern on Jupiter
  • Nuclear Energy Board (1973-1992), established in Ireland on November 30, 1973 by the Nuclear Energy (An Bord Fuinnimh Núicléigh) Act, 1971
  • Noise Equivalent Bandwidth, a measure of the bandwidth of an electrical filter equivalent to a 'brick wall' filter with infinite attenuation in its stop band.


Entertainment

  • Neb (or Nebuchadnezzar), a character in the novel Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
  • Neb (or Nebuchadnezzar), a character in English translations of the novel Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (in the original French the names are Nab and Nabuchadnasar)

Places

  • River Neb (Awin Neb in Manx), one of the principal rivers on the Isle of Man

Translations: Neb
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - næb, tud, spids

abbr. - New English Bible

Nederlands (Dutch)
snavel, snuit, tuit, Nebraska

Français (French)
n. - (Écosse) bec, nez, pointe de (qch), plume, bouche (arch)

abbr. - (abrév = New English BiBle) nouvelle traduction anglaise de la Bible

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schnabel, Maul, Schnauze, Mund, Spitze

abbr. - Neue Englische Bibel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (Σκοτ. & Β. Αγγλία) ράμφος
abbr. - Νέα Βίβλος, Νεμπράσκα

Italiano (Italian)
naso, becco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bico (m), ponta (f) de pena de escrever
abbr. - Nebraska

Русский (Russian)
клюв, морда, нос

Español (Spanish)
n. - pico, punta

abbr. - Nueva Biblia Inglesa

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - näbb, nos, spets, udd
abbr., - abbr.

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
新英文圣经

鼻, 尖端, 口

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - 新英文聖經

n. - 鼻, 尖端, 口

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 동물의 주둥이, (사람의)코, 끝

abbr. - New English Bible(새 영어 성경)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - くちばし, 鼻

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) منقار, طرف الشيء المستدق (اختصار) مختصر : ولايه نبراسكا الامريكيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מקור (של עוף), חוטם, בליטה, קצה‬
abbr. - ‮מועצת היוזמה (הפרטית) הלאומית (בבריטניה), תנ"ך אנגלי חדש‬


 
 

 

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