neck
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noun- 1.
(anatomy) The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
Giraffes have long necks.
Đồng nghĩa: scrag
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The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
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The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
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The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
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(botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
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(music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
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A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
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(engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
a neck forming the journal of a shaft
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The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
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(architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
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(geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
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(firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
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verb- 1.
(slang, transitive)To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
Go neck yourself.
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(US, informal, intransitive)(intransitive, informal, chiefly US) To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.
Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
Đồng nghĩa: make out, French kiss, grope, pet, smoodge, snog, buss, goozer, kiss, lallygag, lips, lock lips, osculate, pash, play tonsil hockey, smooch, snog, suck face, swap spit
- 3.
(slang, transitive)To drink or swallow rapidly.
Đồng nghĩa: chug
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(intransitive)To decrease in diameter.
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From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (neck, nape), from *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (nape, neck), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (back of the head, nape, neck).