throat

Betekenis (Engels)

1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.
3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
4. Station throat.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
9. The inside of a timber knee.
10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

neck

gullet

Adam’s apple

roof of mouth

trickling water

respiratory tract

front of neck

critical section

language

dog-hole

drip mold

laryngopharynx

filler opening

larmier

filling opening

critical cross-section

choking section

hollow throat

filler box

drip channel

weeping pipe

trickle tube

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈθɹəʊt/

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.