neb
noun
a bill or beak, as of a bird.
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neb
1 American
[neb]
/ nɛb /
noun
Scot.
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a bill or beak, as of a bird.
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the nose, especially of an animal.
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the tip or pointed end of anything.
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the nib of a pen.
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Obsolete. a person's mouth.
Neb.
2
American
abbreviation
neb
1
British
/ nɛb /
noun
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the peak of a cap
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the beak of a bird or the nose or snout of an animal
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a person's mouth or nose
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the projecting part or end of anything
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a peak, esp in N England
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a prominent gritstone overhang
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NEB
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British
abbreviation
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New English Bible
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(the former) National Enterprise Board
Etymology
Origin of neb
before 900; Middle English nebbe, Old English nebb, cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German nebbe, Old Norse nef. See nib
Example Sentences
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Kennedy sprinkles in more idiomatic vocabulary — geg, neb, snatter, wheeker, pokes, marleys — to make her characters’ exchanges ring true.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
Here you can find neb noses and gum bands and people eating chipped ham.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2014
Observed Phillips of his neb: "I am not ashamed."
From Time Magazine Archive
Money Talks Yam-nosed, publicity-wise Jimmy Durante let it be known that he was insuring his neb for $50,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Weigh it? I have nothing but the sweep here, neb Goldsmith.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
“Cattle are tricky collateral,” said Ty Lucas, Chief Lending Officer for NebraskaLand Bank in North Platte, Neb., the heart of cattle country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The company’s CEO, Tom Gayner, 64, is a longtime fan of Berkshire and told an audience in Omaha, Neb., before the Berkshire annual meeting recently that Markel has “studied the playbook.”
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Washington, D.C. led the big cities, followed by Omaha, Neb., and Boston.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
One asked if he was going to move the company out of Omaha, Neb., its headquarters for decades during Warren Buffett’s run as leader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
N. Scotia to Fla., west to Minn., E. Neb., and La.—Fruit slightly bitter, but with a pleasant vinous flavor.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In another example, researchers from Cornell University partnered with NEB to create synthetically engineered T7 phages that function as biosensors to detect E. coli in drinking water, described in a December 2025 ACS study.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
The development of this rapid synthetic phage engineering system grew out of close collaboration between NEB scientists and bacteriophage researchers at Yale University.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
The community was concerned the seismic testing, which uses loud noises, would harm the marine life they depend on, a worry confirmed by the NEB.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2017
Under NEB rules, directly affected parties such as local environmental groups campaigning to protect the whales would have been able to intervene against the pipeline.
From Reuters ● Apr. 7, 2015
To get needed capital, Sinclair agreed to cede control of his company to the NEB until his firm makes enough profit to pay back the agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
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