neck

Reikšmė (English)

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. A person's life.
14. (informal,slang) A falsehood; a lie.
15. (slang) Fellatio
16. A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.

Verb

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

Synonyms

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

nucha

nec

heavy petting

manchette

back of neck

collar line

back part of the neck

scrag end

ore pipe

ore chimney

neck of tube

pars cervicalis

body recess

cervical part

back

🔙

porkneck

part

agreement

back of the head

behead

bosom

bridge

chimney

column

cuddle

décolletage

drink

🥤

fingerboard

gorge

gullet

handle

head

jugular

knuckle

lapel

larynx

line

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/nɛk/

Etimologija (English)

Inherited from Vidurio Anglijos: nekke

Inherited from senoji anglų: hnecca

Cognate with škotų: nek

Cognate with šiaurinių fryzų: neek

Cognate with Saterlendo fryzų: Näkke

Cognate with vakarų fryzų: nekke

Cognate with olandų: nek

Cognate with vokiečių: Nacken

Cognate with danų: nakke

Cognate with švedų: nacke

Cognate with islandų: hnakki

Cognate with Tokharian A: kñuk

Cognate with senoji anglų: hnocc

Cognate with valų: cnwch

Cognate with latvių: 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”).

Sakiniai

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

Šis varnas turi labai trumpas plunksnas ant galvos, gerklės ir kaklo.