neck

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
2. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
4. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
5. The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
6. The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
7. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
8. A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
9. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
10. The gorgerin of a capital.
11. A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
12. The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
13. (figuratively) A person's life.
14. (Multicultural-London-English, informal, slang) A falsehood; a lie.
15. (slang) Fellatio
16. (historical) A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.

Verb

1. (slang, transitive) To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
2. (US, informal, intransitive) To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
3. (slang, transitive) To drink or swallow rapidly.
4. (intransitive) To decrease in diameter.

Conceptes

coll

clatell

broc

nuca

bescoll

mànec

occípit

cap

Sinònims

throat

cervix

nape

scruff

collar

front of neck

nape of the neck

isthmus

nape of neck

butchery cut

back of the neck

neckband

neck opening

make out

scrag

pet

bottleneck

collum

strait

caress

voice

windpipe

maw

mouth

narrow

narrows

necklace

neckline

osculate

pearl oyster

pile

pillar

pipe

plug

pole

post

pylon

rack

region

row

share

shoulder

skull

💀

smack

stock

stripe

trachea

canoodle

chuck steak

lallygag

Traduccions

cou

Hals

cuello

collo

hals

nek

pescoço

collum

Nacken

λαιμός

boyun

cervix

pescuezo

nuca

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/nɛk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: nekke

Heretat de anglès antic: hnecca

Cognat amb escocès: nek

Cognat amb frisó septentrional: neek

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Näkke

Cognat amb frisó occidental: nekke

Cognat amb neerlandès: nek

Cognat amb alemany: Nacken

Cognat amb danès: nakke

Cognat amb suec: nacke

Cognat amb islandès: hnakki

Cognat amb Tokharian A: kñuk

Cognat amb anglès antic: hnocc

Cognat amb gal·lès: cnwch

Cognat amb letó: knaūķis

In summary

From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”). Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).

Frases

This raven has very short feathers on the head , throat and neck .