What is "beck"

Beck \Beck\, n. See Beak. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Beck \Beck\, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook, OHG. pah, G. bach.] A small brook.

The brooks, the becks, the rills.
--Drayton.

Beck \Beck\, n. A vat. See Back.

Beck \Beck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Becked; p. pr. & vb. n. Becking.] [Contr. of beckon.] To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic]
--Drayton.

Beck \Beck\, v. t. To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic]

When gold and silver becks me to come on.
--Shak.

Beck \Beck\, n. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

They have troops of soldiers at their beck.
--Shak.

late 14c., "mute signal," from noun use of bekken (v.), variant of becnan "to beckon" (see beckon). Transferred sense of "slightest indication of will" is from late 15c.

c.1300, shortening of beckon. (v.).

n. (surname: English)

n. a beckoning gesture

Beck (born 1970) is an American singer and songwriter.

Beck may also refer to:

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Harold Sakuishi. It was originally serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2008, with the 103 chapters later published into 34 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. It tells the story of a group of Japanese teenagers who form a rock band and their struggle to fame, focusing on 14-year-old Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka, who until meeting guitar prodigy Ryusuke Minami was an average teen with a boring life.

It was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series, titled BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, by Madhouse and aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2005. A live-action film adaptation was released in 2010 and stars Takeru Satoh as Koyuki and Hiro Mizushima as Ryusuke. The series has also spawned three guidebooks, four soundtracks, a video game and a line of guitars.

The original manga was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Tokyopop. Volume 1 was published in July 2005, but the series was discontinued after the release of the 12th volume in June 2008. The anime was licensed for an English-language release by Funimation. The first DVD was released in 2007, and the last in January 2008.

Beck (also known as Beck.com B-Sides) is the self-titled, official debut and second overall EP by American artist Beck which consists of b-sides from the Midnite Vultures era. The EP was only available on Beck's website, and only 10,000 copies were printed. The EP was an enhanced CD and it also included the "Nicotine and Gravy" video.

Beck, later called Beck – Lockpojken, is a 1997 film about the Swedish police detective Martin Beck directed by Pelle Seth.

C. D. Beck & Company, of Sidney, Ohio was an intercity motorcoach and transit bus manufacturing company based in the United States that was founded in 1934.

In 1953 Beck acquired Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company, maker of fire apparatus and transferred its production from Cincinnati to Sidney. In 1956 Mack Trucks bought Beck and closed it in 1958.

Total Beck bus and coach production was around 3150 units.

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres.

He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his sonically experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide genre styles. Today, he musically encompasses folk, funk, soul, hip hop, alternative rock, country and psychedelia. He has released 12 studio albums (3 of which were independently released), as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music.

Born in Los Angeles in 1970, Beck grew towards hip-hop and folk in his teens and began to perform locally at coffeehouses and clubs. He moved to New York City in 1989 and became involved in the city's small fiery anti-folk movement. Returning to LA in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single " Loser", which became a worldwide hit in 1994, and released his first major album, Mellow Gold, the same year. Odelay, released in 1996, produced hit singles, topped critic polls and won several awards. He released the psychedelic Mutations in 1998, and the funk-infused Midnite Vultures in 1999. The soft-acoustic Sea Change in 2002 showcased a more serious Beck, and 2005's Guero returned to Odelay's sample-based production. The Information in 2006 was inspired by electrofunk, hip hop, and psychedelia; 2008's Modern Guilt was inspired by '60s pop music; and 2014's folk-infused Morning Phase won Album of the Year at the 57th Grammy Awards on February 8, 2015. He is reportedly working on a 13th studio album, with the singles " Dreams" and " Wow" having already been released.

With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being among the most idiosyncratically creative musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock. Two of Beck's most popular and acclaimed recordings are Odelay and Sea Change, both of which were ranked on Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The four-time platinum artist has collaborated with several artists and has made several contributions to soundtracks.

Beck is married to actress Marissa Ribisi, and is an active Scientologist.

Beck is a surname of Germanic descent, meaning " brook" or " stream" (related to Old Norse bekkr), and is fairly common in English-speaking countries, Germany and Denmark. The German name can also be a variant of Becker, which is an occupational surname meaning "baker." In Hebrew, it exists as an abbreviated form of B'nei Kiddoshim ("sons of the martyrs"). Notable people with this surname include:

• Aaron T. Beck, founder of modern cognitive therapy
• Adam Beck (1857–1925), Canadian politician and hydro-electricity advocate
• András Beck (1911–1985), Hungarian sculptor
• Andreas Beck (footballer), (born 1987), German football player
• Andreas Beck (tennis), German tennis player
• Audrey P. Beck (1931-1983), American educator and politician
• Bill Beck (1900–1965), American college sports coach
• C. C. Beck, American cartoonist
• Charlie Beck – appointed Police Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
• Christophe Beck, Canadian composer for film and TV, most notable for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Claude Beck (1894–1971), American cardiac surgeon who invented the defibrillator
• Clifford W. Beck, American politician
• Corey Beck (born 1971), American basketball player
• Dr. Beck, named taken by the Count de Werdinsky (1803–1856)
• Edward S. Beck (born 1946) Head, Susquehanna Institute, President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
• Franz Ignaz Beck, (1734-1809), German classical composer
• Gad Beck (1923-2012), German educator, author, activist, and survivor of the Holocaust
• George Beck (artist), artist and poet
• Gina Beck, English actress and singer
• Glenn Beck (actor), Canadian actor
• Glenn Beck, American conservative radio/TV talk show host and comedian
• Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck, German botanist
• Hans Beck (1929–2009), German inventor
• Harry Beck (footballer)
• Harry Beck, designer of the London Underground map
• Jakob Sigismund Beck, German philosopher
• James M. Beck (1861–1936), United States Solicitor General and US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Jeff Beck (born 1944), British electric guitarist
• John Beck (actor) (born 1943), American actor
• John Beck (American football player), NFL player and former BYU quarterback
• John Beck (footballer), British football manager
• John Brodhead Beck, 19th-century United States physician
• Jonathan Mock Beck (1935–2006), American mathematician
• Joko Beck, an American Zen teacher
• Józef Beck, Polish diplomat and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (1932-1939)
• Jozsef Beck, a mathematician
• Justin Beck, American guitarist
• Karol Beck, Slovakian tennis player
• Kent Beck, major proponent of Extreme Programming
• Kimberly Beck (born 1956), American actress
• Kristin Beck
• Kurt Beck, (born 1949), German politician (SPD)
• Laetitia Beck (born 1992), Israeli golfer
• Lewis Caleb Beck, 19th-century United States naturalist and physician
• Ludwig Beck, German general and participant in the failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
• Michael Beck (born 1949), American actor
• Mikkel Beck, Danish ex professional football player
• Paul W. Beck, American military aviation pioneer
• Robert Beck, alias of African American writer Iceberg Slim
• Robert Beck, alias of former D-12 rapper Karnail Pitts
• Robert Nason Beck, pioneer radiologist
• Robin Beck (born 1954), American singer
• Rod Beck (1968–2007), former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Rollo Beck (1870–1950), American bird collector
• Shayla (née Osborn) Beck, American musical theatre actress
• Theodore Beck, first principal of the MAO College at Aligarh, India
• Theodric Romeyn Beck, forensic scientist
• Peter Beck (cleric) (born c. 1948/1949), dean of ChristChurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Peter Beck (politician) (born 1952), politician from Ohio
• Rick Beck (born 1956), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
• Ulrich Beck, (1944-2015), German sociologist
• W. Raymond Beck, former member of Maryland House of Delegates